Show Us Your Lionfish

[Mental1]

Cool Fu pic....

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[Jhockey]

I finally got one! Woohoo! A nice 4" black volitan. I have to ween him onto frozen prepared foods though, any tips?

 

[drainbamage101]

I finally got one! Woohoo! A nice 4" black volitan. I have to ween him onto frozen prepared foods though, any tips?

A whole ton of patience. I have limited experience with them, but I've never used live food once getting them, always just stuck to frozen/prepared (they love freeze dried krill as well as frozen stuff) and used a feeding stick until they eventually got excited enough and went for it.
Sometimes weird things will help-such as how you have the fish speared on the feeding stick, if the lion can see the eyes or not, things like that.

 

[Jhockey]

Yeah, mine ate a dead clown at the LFS 2 days ago. So how long do you feed them? I was thinking 2-3x a week. I tried dancing a silverside in front of him on a feeding stick, little interest. I'll give him a couple of days to adjust then give it a try. How long should I hold out on live food for him if he doesn't eat prepared? Don't want him starving to death.

 

[Tryin2layadime]

 

[namxas]

I finally got one! Woohoo! A nice 4" black volitan. I have to ween him onto frozen prepared foods though, any tips?

If you haven't read them, try these:

FEEDING TIPS

I highly recommend "Renee's "Handy Dandy Super Sleuth Safe Feeding stick". We use it to feed all of our lions and scorps, incl. our adult volitans.

Lionfish Info Sheet by Frank Marini

Lionfishes and Other Scorpionfishes, also by Frank Marini. I consider this book to be the "bible" for scorp keepers. Besides a lot of great info, there are tons of nice pix.

Finally...a whole lot of patience!


Tryin2...

Those are some pretty little volitans, you have there!

 

[Fibinotchi]

I thought I would share some more pics, my zebra has developed a new begging behavior, every time I come close to the tank, he flips upside down and swims back and forth across the surface of the tank. here are a few shots of it.

 

[Tryin2layadime]

hahah mine begs pretty good too. but he doesnt flip upside down.

 

[Fibinotchi]

I think he wants me to rub his belly. But, i'm too scared.

 

[ashtree68]

That's awesome I wish mine would do something like that. My eels are letting me start petting them though so I guess that's something.

 

[namxas]

Very cool, Fib...I've seen lions engage in that behavior before and thought it had something to do with the fact that fish that live in caves like to have their bellies against a wall, as you often see fish upside down on the ceiling of the cave.

Your fish look gorgeous, BTW.

 

[namxas]

oooooooooo! That's a tiny one, for sure. We'd LOVE the chance to raise one from that size!

 

[Fibinotchi]

Very cool, Fib...I've seen lions engage in that behavior before and thought it had something to do with the fact that fish that live in caves like to have their bellies against a wall, as you often see fish upside down on the ceiling of the cave.

Your fish look gorgeous, BTW.

Thanks you, and I have you and your wife to thank for getting me into lions. I used to think they would be a boring fish to own, but I find more satisfaction in housing them than almost any other fish I have kept.

On another note, it concerns me how many fu's have been on divers den for the last six months or so, and on other sites, I hope the people buying them have researched and know what they are doing, and are successful.
I just don't think some fish should be as accessible to the general public as others.

 

[seahorsedreams]

I'm not going to even put the current Fu in with the others. I worked so hard on him, I just don't want to risk him in any way. I'm going to get a second one for the community tank to make sure I can indeed convert another one.

 

[Sitarangi]

 

[Fibinotchi]

:thumbsup: Looks like a big happy fu.

 

[namxas]

Thanks you, and I have you and your wife to thank for getting me into lions. I used to think they would be a boring fish to own, but I find more satisfaction in housing them than almost any other fish I have kept.

On another note, it concerns me how many fu's have been on divers den for the last six months or so, and on other sites, I hope the people buying them have researched and know what they are doing, and are successful.
I just don't think some fish should be as accessible to the general public as others.

I dunno, Fib...you might end up cursing the peeps who addicted you... :lol2:

As for the fu's from DD, at least they're eating well for them when they're shipped, which is great. Weaning them is another issue in itself, as you well know.

 

[SmithZero]

Picked this zebra up last week :bounce1:

 

[ashtree68]

I dunno, Fib...you might end up cursing the peeps who addicted you... :lol2:

+1

I'm both thankful and very angry and Greg/Renee for all their information and advice. I was happy with my one little (well rather large) lionfish, now I have 8 lions/scorps.

 

[Fibinotchi]

I am more than satisfied with being a lion tamer.