To Lionfish or not to Lionfish....
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convictblennie
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I would not plan on keeping them on shrimp for long but I don't want them to starve either... it would be nice if ghost were cheaper here or were easier to breed
MrTuskfish
Team RC
Taking a turn on the subject: your initial post mentioned that you had ich in the tank. Unless you removed all the fish, treated them in a HT/QT, and left the DT fishless for 10+.....you still almost certainly have forms of ich in the tank. Ich can go months without showing up and new fish are especially vulnerable.
msmith619
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My first 'BIG' tank. It was a 110 Gallon Tall 48x18x29. This was 35 years ago!
I put a 2" Volitans lion, 2" Panther grouper, 2" Red Emperor Snapper, 2" Orbiculate Batfish, small Undulate Trigger and a snowflake moray eel. I called it my 'killer tank'.
Surprisingly, they all got along fine. (Despite the Undulate trigger rep)
I kept that group for over 5 years. The Lion and Panther grew over 12". I had to give away the snapper to the LFS when he got even bigger.
I sold the system when I went off to school but, I loved that tank.
On the Frogfish note. I used to go to the beach and collect local fish for my tanks all the time. One time there was a large amount of Sargassum seaweed in. I caught 10-12 Sargassum fish. I was so excited. I put them all in a 55 gallon tank. They were all about the same size. The next morning I had 1 Sargassum fish. They all swallowed each other. DO NOT underestimate the size fish they can swallow. I would swear they can swallow a fish larger than themselves.
BTW: The Sargassum died of indigestion a day or two later! Gluttony is not good!
I put a 2" Volitans lion, 2" Panther grouper, 2" Red Emperor Snapper, 2" Orbiculate Batfish, small Undulate Trigger and a snowflake moray eel. I called it my 'killer tank'.
Surprisingly, they all got along fine. (Despite the Undulate trigger rep)
I kept that group for over 5 years. The Lion and Panther grew over 12". I had to give away the snapper to the LFS when he got even bigger.
I sold the system when I went off to school but, I loved that tank.
On the Frogfish note. I used to go to the beach and collect local fish for my tanks all the time. One time there was a large amount of Sargassum seaweed in. I caught 10-12 Sargassum fish. I was so excited. I put them all in a 55 gallon tank. They were all about the same size. The next morning I had 1 Sargassum fish. They all swallowed each other. DO NOT underestimate the size fish they can swallow. I would swear they can swallow a fish larger than themselves.
BTW: The Sargassum died of indigestion a day or two later! Gluttony is not good!
convictblennie
New member
That is a sad Sargassum story.... Thanks for the info people 
Do you have pics of that killer tank you can scan and show us hehe
Do you have pics of that killer tank you can scan and show us hehe 
namxas
Things With Stings R Us!
That's a good example illustrating the importance of keeping anglers in single specimen setups, as well as their incredibly slow metablolism. What happened is all of that food began to decompose in the angler's GI tract faster than it was able to digest it.
Thanks for sharing that.
