anyone cared for lionfishes before? I got a dwarf zebra lion and i'll need some care instructions for it. I'm guessing live food is what they care for but is there anything else?
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does ur lions only come out at night? Also, do the other fishes compete for the frozen foods?i always try and get my lions to start feeding on frozen foods like shrimp or silversides. i have had the best luck with the predetor formula from rod's
first of all don't feed them goldfish, goldfish are amonia bombs and will kill your lions eventually. I have taught mine to eat dry krill very easaly.To the point that I just toss the krill in the tank and they will come and chow down.Smaller lions are easier to teach.First I will feed them live food if they are 2 week until they r heathy.Then I will grab the krill put the dried shrimp on a very thin wire (perferably stainless steel),and wiggle it in front of him. If he does not react to it (DONT FEED HIM FOR A DAY OR 2) and repeat the wire process.He will react when he is nice and hungry.Then feed him like this every other day until he reacts very quickly.Then BOOM you just toss the dried krill in his tank and he will react to them with out the wire. Some eat quicker than others.
hey bro, i had a lionfish. fed um live opae and the small brackish guppies from moderns! (but i was hardcore and injected the guppies with selcon usiing a super small syringe) my friends dad is diabetic and was more than willing to give me a brand new in wrap syringe.
I have had a fuzzy dwarf, zebra and a fu-man chu all in the same tank for over a year they were like best buddys. Mine would eat everything from ghost shrimp, krill, silversides, formula one cubes and the best was when they started to eat flakes. All three of mine were very active and swam around all day. What kind of lighting is over the tank? I rember hearing they dont like high amounts of light. Heres a pic of mine. I miss my lions
I have T5 lighting in my tank at about 320w for a 120G tank. My lion mostly will come out at night and if I see it during the day, it'd be stationary on a rock. If i tried feeding it frozen foods the other fish with hit it before i get even close to the lion.
Mine eat anything that moves...and that's the key--making stuff move. I feed a lot of frozen food, make sure to keep the powerheads ON when feeding so the stuff you feed has the illusion of moving around the tank.
Like anything else in the hobby, try to vary the diet. Silversides, Mysis, Brine, etc. I've heard bad stuff about krill but I honestly don't remember what it was!
Also, you could just go to the frozen food section of the supermarket and get a bag of mixed seafood and blend it up for some additional treats.
Krill is how I killed my Yellow Dwarf.....I fed him and he was fat and happy there was about 3-4 smallish pieces of krill on the bottom of the tank. I was on my way out for work and when I got home I found him dead on the bottom of the tank and a whole mess of krill regurgitated all over the tank...He even had some stuck in his mouth.....From what it looked like he over ate and puked it all back up and got some stuck in his throat and died.......I was so ****** and saddened by that loss...I looked for a year for a specimen that was a quality as he was. Even had a on-line site hand pick it for me.......That is a nice looking group of Lionfish you had....