Fu Man Chu lion

Finally I got to read it all with no stopping.... rare in my house

So it looks like if I am getting a lion, it has to be a dwarf of some sort or the fu man chu. If I can still get ghost shrimp from a local store, I will try the fu man chu for sure. From the article I gathered that it was ok to use fresh water live fish or ghost shrimp for a short period of time, and with gut loading.

Where can i get a acrylic rod for a feeding stick, or can I use a piece of rigid air line to do the same thing with?
 
rigid airline is fine, works just as well. we have so many sticks and tanx, we get the ones from the LFS in different colors for different setups.

fuzzy dwarfs (D. brachypterus) are simply great fish...very interactive, esp with the "food god". they're kinda like the volitans of the genus.

of the dwarf lions, we have (2) fuzzies (an adult male and a juvie "not sure yet"), a juvie green/Hawaiian (D. barberi), and a young Fu (D. biocellatus).

how can you resist these?

fuzzy on left, Hawaiian on right:

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our adult male is pretty stunning tho (if i do say so myself ;) )

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Great news. ..... I stopped at my favorite LFS today, and they have a yellow dwarf fuzzy. I am getting him tomorrow. I can't wait..He is already eating
 
O yeah one thing dont get damsels to try and feed him thats bad juju. I bout some of those thinking they would be food ended up they stayed in my tank and bulled everyone besides the lion and he never ate them. They do make salt water guppies or called mollies. But once you get them to eat frozen food your in the money.
 
Alright,

I got my yellow fuzzy dwarf today. I watched him eat at the LFS, but he did not touch the food here yet. Although at the store he ate mysis, and I have krill. I don't expect him to eat for the first few days anyway. I am stoked, and can't wait for it to find its place in my reef
 
Alright. He ate a little last night when I fed the others. A good sign. He really did not move last night from a spot on the sand in the front middle of the tank. He found his way last night up to a rock formation where it is blocked from the flow, and has not moved from that spot today... kind of disappointing really.

I know that lion fish are not the most active fish by any means, but roughly how long can I expect him to stay in this spot before he is moving a little? Also, I know in the RK article mentioned on page 1, the author said that he would wait for a day or 2 in between feedings. Is this something that you guys do as well?
 
that fish is a dwarf fuzzy (Dendrochirus brachypterus).

we feed M-W-F. give your fish a little time to figure out who the "food god" is, and it will come running like a puppy dog when it sees you. we had a solid red specimen that would come to the surface and spit water at us.
 
Well, I am sad to say, even with watching the yellow dwarf fuzzy eat twice in my home tank, he did not make it very long. He died sometime last night or throughout the day. Either way he was not alive tonight when I got home from work...

I really thought he was cool, but now I am nervous on trying to add another one and take a gamble on one again
 
oh man...sorry about your fuzzy.

we had our eye on a yellow fuzzy, but we noticed it gilling a bit hard, so we asked the LFS owner to treat it. it died the next day. sometimes you get a fish like that...they just don't make it (not just lions).

IME, fuzzies are the easiest dwarf lion to keep (i can't seem to find a "good" D. zebra)...they always seem to do well for a little while and die for no apparent reason). it's possible that your fish's inactivity was a clue, but not having seen the fish, it's conjecture on my part.

i know it's a bit disheartening, but i'd look around for another fish, as they are normally super tuff, interactive, and the best all-around of the dwarf genus, IMHO.
 
Hey Nam - Is it the time of year in your opinion, that "fu's" become available?
I just got a email from DD that the sneak peak includes a pair, stopped by Petco to pick up some flake on the way home & they have one ....

I ask you because you seem to have a handle on lion fish & I respect that ... I just thought it was funny (not haha funny) ...
 
i just have a bit of experience with scorps...they're my faves. :)

actually, i've been seeing an influx of Dendrochirus lions in general lately. i also find that certain shops tend to carry certain fish. Lisa D picked up the last pair of biocellatus from DD, altho i haven't heard an update on them. personally, i've had mostly good luck with the specimens i've gotten from DD (none of our lions came from them tho).

Petco and a fu is a bit scary tho...at least from what i've seen of their typical SW dept. Fu's are indeed a bit more touchy in terms of getting them to eat. they're also more picky about water quality, but i really like ours. try to get a younger fish if you can as they seem to adapt better, IME.

HTH
 
I will try another one sooner or later. It was gilling a bit in my tank that I noticed, but not at the LFS. I want to assume maybe 1 hr acclimation was not long enough, and that going from dirty store water to clean home water shocked it a little
 
Sorry about your loss. The fuzzy dwarf was a better choice than the Fu - easier to wean to frozen, a bit hardier (at least during the acclimation to captive life process). I am concerned that you don't have a QT. Can you buy a large plastic container (Rubbermaid or Sterilite) and use it for QT, then put it away?
 
the only reason a lion will bother any other fish is if said fish willfit into its mouth. they're very easy-going, with the exception of a couple of species (such as the fu) that don't tolerate conspecifics well. speaking of, Lisa...how are yours doing?

our adult male fuzzy is curtrently sharing a std. 60 gal with:

(3) H. borbonius (blotched anthias)
(1) A. tomentosus (bristletail filefish)
(1) A. taenianotus (c.ockatoo waspfish)
(1) P. rubripinnis (red-finned waspfish)
(1) S. litoralis (cheekspot scorpionfish)
CUC of assorted snails
a few polyps (GSP, etc)

here's a pic of the tank:

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What a great looking tank....


I have a pretty small house, with a bigger family. 5 of us in 1200 sqft... a little tight. I think I might have her talked into a QT that I can use in the bed room, or possibly set it on the work bench in the garage. Bad thing there is not being able to control it as well.

How do they do with light adjustment? I have lots of par in my tank ( to much really). Could the powerful bright light been a factor that lead to the end of my nice little fuzzy
 
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