Show Us Your Lionfish
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cooterbrown
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My big guy sadly passed away about 4 months ago. He had been with the previous owner for 10 years and spent 3 years with me. So no telling how old he was. He lost his eyesite about a year ago so I spent alot of time teaching him to eat from my hand. I would bounce a shrimp off his nose and he would eat that way. One day he just quit eating and a week later he layed on the bottom and died. It was sad the s&s puffer would swim under the lion hiding and they slept next to each other and while the lion was dying the puff never left his side. So tell me fish aren't smart. I put him in the jar because I had never seen another one this big in captivity. He was 13" long and as big around as my forearm. This is a 1g jar for reference.
Here he was in all his glory.
hossa81
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Heres my new addition to the family. Dwarf Zebra Lionfish
Nice looking fish, looks pretty nice.
namxas
Things With Stings R Us!
You can always pick another common name, or just call it a "lionfish":
Butterfly cod, featherfins, peacock lionfish, firefish, red lionfish, scorpionfish, scorpion cod, zebrafish, turkeyfish...you get the idea. OR, you could always be a bit more correct and call it a volitans. Altho we don't do so, you could also just give it a name...Mufasa, Simba, Fred...
FlipToast
In Memoriam
Man it was a joke haha. I'm actually a well rounded individual lol. I run my own local frag/tank setup/custom glass sump business. And I did used to have a Volitans named Mufasa! He was great pals with my pufferfish named...get this...pumba haha. I always kept an eye on them of course. They've always had separate diets too, never got into any brawls. I raised saltwater acclimated mollies as feeders who doubled as a cleanup crew. Boy I do miss that setup. All reef for me now.
Some awesome things about lionfish I learned from experience:
Pee on your hand if you get stung
Never expect a fish to be ignored as lunch
They look great perched near massive Duncan corals.
Some awesome things about lionfish I learned from experience:
Pee on your hand if you get stung
Never expect a fish to be ignored as lunch
They look great perched near massive Duncan corals.
hossa81
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you should've got a Mombasa lionfish and called him mufasa.
pjb9166
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cooterbrown
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Way ahead of ya! Lol this guy went in the next week. I got lucky he's almost full grown and lived in a buddies tank for a year
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