http://www.wgrz.com/video/vplayer.aspx?aid=13512&sid=35166&bw=hi&cat=2
This was on wgrz.com.
A guy was attacked by his lion fish.
Pretty scary:eek1:
This was on wgrz.com.
A guy was attacked by his lion fish.
Pretty scary:eek1:
Attacked by Lion fish
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Landolakes
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I love his tank but those fish are way to big and I am suprised Lilly never ate those clowns. I was stung by a dead dwarf lion at work one day it hurt like heck but I was ok.
GMaquarium
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I got nailed on my arm. two spikes went in. It was never bad enough to go to the hospital. Took a long time to go away and was kindof painful. I used anibiotic cream a couple times a day and kept the arm out of the tanks for a while.
In my opinion its not as big of a deal as some make it out to be. Different people do react differently, just like with bee stings. As far as I know, no one has died for a pet lion sing so in my book they are safe enough to keep.
I once kept a bluering octopus, now those are deadly and should not be kept by hobbyists
In my opinion its not as big of a deal as some make it out to be. Different people do react differently, just like with bee stings. As far as I know, no one has died for a pet lion sing so in my book they are safe enough to keep.
I once kept a bluering octopus, now those are deadly and should not be kept by hobbyists
psychofishy
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heh.. good point Tuckrule..
I'm actually in the progress of getting a dwarf lion.... can't wait! they're beautiful...
I'm actually in the progress of getting a dwarf lion.... can't wait! they're beautiful...
Landolakes
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The dwarfs are poop machines and make keeping nitrates down in a reef set up very difficult. I have tried as well as many others on here and not to many are still around. They also eat small fish, inverts and dwarf is just in comparison to other lions, they are still large fish mine was at least 7" and very bulky. He did say he knew it was venemous just not deadly.
jdoenumber2
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Was this the same clip from last year?
psychofishy
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hmm.. I'll figure something out.. All my current stock is going to the 75, and i intend to just keep snails, rocks, mushrooms and a lionfish in the current tank.... with 16 gallon sump and a small skimmer.. surely it's "possible" to keep nitrates down.
Finsky
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How strong is the venom of the Fu Manchu Lion, the Redfin Waspfish(scorpion family), a pair of Hawaiian Yellow Leaf fish(scorpion family).
I reached into my ice cube and soda pop filled cooler as I sat on a barrier island just south of Tallahassee, Florida about half a mile from the parking lot of a state park.
I was fishing and I caught some sailfin catfish which I put into the cooler. Doing one of the dumbest things I quickly reached in for a soda and rammed my the middle of my right hand palm onto the top spine of one catfish. The pain was excrusiating and my hand hurt for days.
I reached into my ice cube and soda pop filled cooler as I sat on a barrier island just south of Tallahassee, Florida about half a mile from the parking lot of a state park.
I was fishing and I caught some sailfin catfish which I put into the cooler. Doing one of the dumbest things I quickly reached in for a soda and rammed my the middle of my right hand palm onto the top spine of one catfish. The pain was excrusiating and my hand hurt for days.
Grenade Glass
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I hand fed my lionfish "Zira" for a long time. ill post a video.
aquadonkey
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Love that name
Great videos! Beautiful fish and it's endearing seeing it eat from your hand.
This seems similar to hand feeding my box turtles - which I stopped doing a couple years ago after finding out what it felt like when they missed the worm and got my finger instead (well.... just similar, since the turtles aren't poisonous).
Finsky
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Four inch Fu Manchu
Four inch Fu Manchu
I am going to try the 50 lbs test clear fishing line fed through a 30" hard plastic airline tubing to feed the lion fish.
I have a 10 gallon aquarium with two males and four female platies along with a couple dozen ghost shrimp so I do not have to run to the Petsmart in the middle of the week.
I am working towards feeding my four inch Fu Manchu Lionfish bite sized pieces of frozen krill, silverside, and grocery store small shrimp.
Twice he has bitten down on food on a wooden skewer feeding stick and let go immediately. He hesitates so far with the eight inch feeding stick although I have only had him for a week.
I am going to persist with the frozen food feeding attempts.
Four inch Fu Manchu
I am going to try the 50 lbs test clear fishing line fed through a 30" hard plastic airline tubing to feed the lion fish.
I have a 10 gallon aquarium with two males and four female platies along with a couple dozen ghost shrimp so I do not have to run to the Petsmart in the middle of the week.
I am working towards feeding my four inch Fu Manchu Lionfish bite sized pieces of frozen krill, silverside, and grocery store small shrimp.
Twice he has bitten down on food on a wooden skewer feeding stick and let go immediately. He hesitates so far with the eight inch feeding stick although I have only had him for a week.
I am going to persist with the frozen food feeding attempts.
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Finsky
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This morning I woke up and fed at least one dead ghost shrimp on the end of a wooden stick to my Fu Manchu Lionfish. As I wanted to keep my mated pair of Leaf Fish I received from "Drs. Foster and Smith" a month ago from starving I purchased and fed 12 live ghost shrimp to them.
Around 6:00 pm I decided to thaw some cut up bite size pieces of frozen krill, silver side, and small grocery store shrimp.
I started tickling the nose of the Fu Manchu Lionfish with a piece of krill or shrimp and zap, it grabbed it off the stick and swallowed it. I then tried a second piece with the same waving the piece of krill/shrimp in front of its face and tickling its two "Fu Manchu" extensions on either side of its face. Zap, it took the piece whole and swallowed it. Emboldened by my success I put a piece of silverside on the stick and after some more wiggling and tickling, zap, it swallowed the piece whole. It ate a second piece of silverside for a total of two pieces of krill/shrimp and two pieces of silverside eaten off the feeding stick tonight. Hurray!!
Now I have to get the pair of Leaf Fish to eat off the stick. I have had the larger male eat a dead ghost shrimp once off the end of the feeder stick. As I had filled them with live ghost shrimp, both the Leaf Fish were not having any frozen food.
The work goes on and I think feeding the dead ghost shrimp on the end of the feeding stick helped as both the Leaf Fish and Fu Manchu Lionfish were fed live ghost shrimp from the places I got them from. A Redfin Waspfish came with the Fu Manchu Lionfish and it was eating anything at "That Fish Place" out of Lancaster, PA.
Around 6:00 pm I decided to thaw some cut up bite size pieces of frozen krill, silver side, and small grocery store shrimp.
I started tickling the nose of the Fu Manchu Lionfish with a piece of krill or shrimp and zap, it grabbed it off the stick and swallowed it. I then tried a second piece with the same waving the piece of krill/shrimp in front of its face and tickling its two "Fu Manchu" extensions on either side of its face. Zap, it took the piece whole and swallowed it. Emboldened by my success I put a piece of silverside on the stick and after some more wiggling and tickling, zap, it swallowed the piece whole. It ate a second piece of silverside for a total of two pieces of krill/shrimp and two pieces of silverside eaten off the feeding stick tonight. Hurray!!
Now I have to get the pair of Leaf Fish to eat off the stick. I have had the larger male eat a dead ghost shrimp once off the end of the feeder stick. As I had filled them with live ghost shrimp, both the Leaf Fish were not having any frozen food.
The work goes on and I think feeding the dead ghost shrimp on the end of the feeding stick helped as both the Leaf Fish and Fu Manchu Lionfish were fed live ghost shrimp from the places I got them from. A Redfin Waspfish came with the Fu Manchu Lionfish and it was eating anything at "That Fish Place" out of Lancaster, PA.
dreaminmel
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Congrats on the successful Lion feeding! :dance:
Will cross my fingers for you with the Leaf fish.
Will cross my fingers for you with the Leaf fish.
Finsky
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Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please do not call me devil person because I have a 4" Creme and Maroon Wartskin Angler coming tomorrow. It was being fed live ghost shrimp at Drs. Foster and Smith and should be about 1/2 " to 3/4" bigger than the Leaf Fish.
A really weird thing happenned last night. My 3 1/2" male Leaf Fish(the female is 3 1/4") was resting its right pectoral fin against the 4" Fu Manchu Lionfish as though they were both best friends hanging out? After a bit they just parted ways in a friendly manner.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please do not call me devil person because I have a 4" Creme and Maroon Wartskin Angler coming tomorrow. It was being fed live ghost shrimp at Drs. Foster and Smith and should be about 1/2 " to 3/4" bigger than the Leaf Fish.
A really weird thing happenned last night. My 3 1/2" male Leaf Fish(the female is 3 1/4") was resting its right pectoral fin against the 4" Fu Manchu Lionfish as though they were both best friends hanging out? After a bit they just parted ways in a friendly manner.
