Help NoW please!

[stephenxbog]

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Help, I bought a dwarf lionfish 7 days ago, hasn’t eaten anything at all but I saw it eat a rosy red minnow at the fish store when I decided to purchase. The tank has been established for about a year now at 1.026 salinity, 0 nitrates, 0 nitrites, phosphates are a little high but my algae takes care of the extra nutrients in the water, I use distilled water for topoffs, my ph is 8.1 to 8.3. And my hardness is perfect. I have a green mandarin, coral banded shrimp, a peppermint shrimp, 2 percula clownfish, a handful of hermits and snails, and a blue damsel. I put him in this tank to maybe see if he would eat a shrimp or something, but still nothing. What could be my issue?

 

[Reefara]

Help, I bought a dwarf lionfish 7 days ago, hasn’t eaten anything at all but I saw it eat a rosy red minnow at the fish store when I decided to purchase. The tank has been established for about a year now at 1.026 salinity, 0 nitrates, 0 nitrites, phosphates are a little high but my algae takes care of the extra nutrients in the water, I use distilled water for topoffs, my ph is 8.1 to 8.3. And my hardness is perfect. I have a green mandarin, coral banded shrimp, a peppermint shrimp, 2 percula clownfish, a handful of hermits and snails, and a blue damsel. I put him in this tank to maybe see if he would eat a shrimp or something, but still nothing. What could be my issue?

yeah that’s honestly pretty normal for dwarf lions. if it was eating live at the store, it’s probably just confused right now and not recognizing anything you’re offering as food.
also your tank might be a little hectic for it to settle in — damsels can be annoying and lions like it calm when they’re new.
i’d try live ghost shrimp or small mollies first just to get it eating again. once it starts eating, then you can work on switching it over to frozen.
7 days isn’t great but it’s not crazy for a lion either, they can go a bit without food. i’d just focus on getting that first meal in him.

 

[painter1982]

It’ll get hungry. The shrimp will satisfy it. Maybe go get roses reds you saw it eat. They try to train it to eat krill or something. Guppies work too.

 

[stephenxbog]

It’ll get hungry. The shrimp will satisfy it. Maybe go get roses reds you saw it eat. They try to train it to eat krill or something. Guppies work too.

I bought rosy minnows that he was eating on and he ain’t touching em. He acts like he’s gonna snack on one then turns away almost like bass do when they figure out there’s a hook in the lure.