Lionfish other than Volitan...
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really a P MILES, hard to believe actually.
The whole lionfish family taxomony needs a serious revision, the intial description of P Miles used a holotype speciman thats looked eerily similar to a P Volitan. I have only seen photos from Scott Micheals that he suggested was a P Miles, but now that i've seen a few red sea P Volitans and their heads are elongated and have ocular projections, looking identical to what P Miles has beeen decribed as, I'm not sure what to believe.
Anyway P Miles look identicals to P Volitans except a longer face. The fin ray length has been debated.
Cute baby P Antennata--i'm suprised your frogfish hasn't chowed it down yet.
I too have had mixed success w/ keeping certain fish w/ lionfish. I've had many chomis and damsels eaten, but 2 out of 8 survivedfor many yrs together. I added a smaller lionfish to a tank of larger established lions, then the smaller lion was eaten, but if i introduced the smaller lion when all the fish where young, they all got along and never "appeared" as food to one-another.
In regards to keeping lions w/ cleaner fish or shrimp, I have a theory, if the lion comes from the wild and is familar w/ the coloration & behavior o cleaners they leave them alone, but if you raise a small lion and its never seen a cleaner, it will eat it.
At least thats my experience
The whole lionfish family taxomony needs a serious revision, the intial description of P Miles used a holotype speciman thats looked eerily similar to a P Volitan. I have only seen photos from Scott Micheals that he suggested was a P Miles, but now that i've seen a few red sea P Volitans and their heads are elongated and have ocular projections, looking identical to what P Miles has beeen decribed as, I'm not sure what to believe.
Anyway P Miles look identicals to P Volitans except a longer face. The fin ray length has been debated.
Cute baby P Antennata--i'm suprised your frogfish hasn't chowed it down yet.
I too have had mixed success w/ keeping certain fish w/ lionfish. I've had many chomis and damsels eaten, but 2 out of 8 survivedfor many yrs together. I added a smaller lionfish to a tank of larger established lions, then the smaller lion was eaten, but if i introduced the smaller lion when all the fish where young, they all got along and never "appeared" as food to one-another.
In regards to keeping lions w/ cleaner fish or shrimp, I have a theory, if the lion comes from the wild and is familar w/ the coloration & behavior o cleaners they leave them alone, but if you raise a small lion and its never seen a cleaner, it will eat it.
At least thats my experience
reeferaddiction
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radiata is my fav even though i have a volitan that is a pretty dark red
My apologies: exclude the blood shrimp (fire shrimp) from the list on the lion's tankmates.
My second Mombasa just ate the oldest fire shrimp (after molting), that served for a mouth cleaning for a volitan and the first mombasa without problems for more, than 1.5 years.
Almost 3" long, nose to tail. The smaller chromises are still swimming around...
$45 breakfast for a $47 fish.
Moral for me: lionfish should be fed better.
Now nave to acclimate another shrimp to a tank with high Mg content (bryopsis fight), and look for another cleaner for a lion: not a cleaner wrasse, not a blood shrimp - can't even imagine what else it could be.
My second Mombasa just ate the oldest fire shrimp (after molting), that served for a mouth cleaning for a volitan and the first mombasa without problems for more, than 1.5 years.
Almost 3" long, nose to tail. The smaller chromises are still swimming around...
$45 breakfast for a $47 fish.
Moral for me: lionfish should be fed better.
Now nave to acclimate another shrimp to a tank with high Mg content (bryopsis fight), and look for another cleaner for a lion: not a cleaner wrasse, not a blood shrimp - can't even imagine what else it could be.
