Pterois Sphex

[jholt1320]

Does anyone have much info. on keeping the hawaiian lionfish "Pterois Sphex" ?
I have a 75gal FOWLR which is home to a foxface and Fu Man Chu lionfish.
I would like to know if these two lions will fight or be peaceful together and if this is to small a tank to add another lionfish?


thanks

 

[namxas]

P. sphex and D. biocellatus should be fine together. Your real problem will be finding a properly ID'd spex...we've been looking for a few years now. They'll be fine in a 75.

 

[seahorsedreams]

If you find one before us, I'm going to be like Santa and come down your chimney to snap him up!

 

[jholt1320]

LOL well i know of a guy that collects nothing but indigenous Hawaiian marine species and i am going to ask him if he can find a Dendrochirus barberi and Pterois sphex for me

 

[namxas]

D. barberi[/I is a super nice lion to keep. Not as spunky as a fuzzy, but ours has been a real pleasure from the get-go (we've had her since she was the size of a dime).

If you buddy can get P. spex, maybe he can get two?

 

[jholt1320]

I will let you know for sure

 

[ashtree68]

Wasn't there a Spex on DD a couple weeks back?

 

[namxas]

I'm not sure, Ash...sometimes we look, sometimes we don't.

 

[ashtree68]

Yea...back on May 11th, Hawaiian Sphex Lionfish. Sold at 5:12pm CST. Not sure if it was correctly ID'd or not though...

 

[jarrod13]

If I remember correctly I'm pretty sure it was a barberi

 

[seahorsedreams]

They usually are.... :-(

 

[jholt1320]

YAy put my order in for both lions to get them at the 1st week of august