small alien
The fungus is among us.
You want to ween your lion to eat dead seafood from a feeding stick. I don't think lions are good beginner fish. What kind of tank?
Lion fish tank mates?
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MrTuskfish
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I grew up in Northern Wis., the Bruhle River was my favorite trout stream, until the canoeists & birdwatchers took it over.
A lions diet doesn't have to be boring. Silversides, raw shrimp, scallop, squid, frozen SW fish, any seafood from the grocery store. Avoid krill in quantity, its been linked to lockjaw in lions. I even feed my large lions whole defrosted cubes of Formula II. They love the stuff and it gets some veggies.
small alien
The fungus is among us.
I cared for 3 species of lions during an internship and feeding them was a blast
SpartaReef
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Love your sig... "If God didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat."
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totally agree. Alright I'm convinced as far as the food goes... Thank you, probably saved me some money in the long run.... maybe.
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totally agree. Alright I'm convinced as far as the food goes... Thank you, probably saved me some money in the long run.... maybe.
namxas
Things With Stings R Us!
To answer the question regarding a "well-fed" lionfish, they should be fed about 4-6 appropriately-sized (about the size of their eye) food items 3x a week. We feed M-W-F with weekends off. If you feed more, do it every-other day at most.
FWIW, one of the arguments for feeding lionfish (and other preds) non-living foods is variety. Feeding any single food in excess generally means your fish is missing something in its diet.
Target feeding is great, because you know exactly how much food each fish is getting, whether it's eating at all, etc. At this point, you're interacting with each fish, and it's easy to see how it's doing, and another important thing is that your fish gets to know you, which is great when you have to work in the tank (they will be a lot less skittish).
It's also fun to stick feed your fish rather than just popping the food into the tank.
Altho having a stick-trained fish won't necessarily make them less prone to eating a tankmate if it's feeling peckish, I can say that most of our fish are so well-trained, they will ignore live food in favor of the food on the stick if both are offered concurrently.
It's not necessarily that the fish are finicky, but many are intimidated by some huge "thing" waving around in their tank, and still others have accidentally bitten the tweezers, stick, etc. and didn't like it.
In answer to this, we came up with what we call the "stealth stick", which works well for pretty much any fish of any size (we actually hold a patent on it). They're easily made with acrylic rod and 50# test monofilament:
FWIW, one of the arguments for feeding lionfish (and other preds) non-living foods is variety. Feeding any single food in excess generally means your fish is missing something in its diet.
Target feeding is great, because you know exactly how much food each fish is getting, whether it's eating at all, etc. At this point, you're interacting with each fish, and it's easy to see how it's doing, and another important thing is that your fish gets to know you, which is great when you have to work in the tank (they will be a lot less skittish).
It's also fun to stick feed your fish rather than just popping the food into the tank.
Altho having a stick-trained fish won't necessarily make them less prone to eating a tankmate if it's feeling peckish, I can say that most of our fish are so well-trained, they will ignore live food in favor of the food on the stick if both are offered concurrently.
It's not necessarily that the fish are finicky, but many are intimidated by some huge "thing" waving around in their tank, and still others have accidentally bitten the tweezers, stick, etc. and didn't like it.
In answer to this, we came up with what we call the "stealth stick", which works well for pretty much any fish of any size (we actually hold a patent on it). They're easily made with acrylic rod and 50# test monofilament:
SpartaReef
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sweet... great invention... do you market it?
namxas
Things With Stings R Us!
We'll be doing that soon, with some improvements, but they're easy to DIY.
SpartaReef
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thx again for all the info... decided to downsize instead and gonna skip teh Lionfish till we go bigger in the future...
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