Lionfish and Scorpionfish

[damsels]

hihi,

I am keen to keep lionfish or scorpionfish but need some advices and research on them.

1) Anyone can share their experience with them?

2) Do they only feed on live food? eg. feeder fish and shrimp?

3) If I intend to feed them with live shrimp, can I feed them with those freshwater transparent feeder shrimps? Even if yes, can these shrimps survive in saltwater long enough for the fishes to prey on them?

[ryz]

Volitans are the easiest to wean to frozen market prawn/fish meat. Not advisable to feed them freshwater mollies/ghost shrimp as staple. freshwater livestock are high in fat content and may cause the lions to suffer from liver failure.

The shrimps usually die within a minute of introduction into the marine tank... so u have to keep them in another freshwater tank if u intend to feed the lions with these shrimps

[damien]

read this:

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-11/jf/feature/index.htm

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-11/fm/feature/index.htm

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-11/hcs3/index.htm

[damsels]

Thanks for the advices both! Especially the links provide such detailed information.

One question though, lionfish can usually swallow up a fish of what size in respective of its own size? Is it 1/2 of its size or like frogfish can even swallow almost same size?

[moron_clown]

dont feed them goldfishes,high chance either they choke to death or the parasites in the goldfish kills them...My fren feeds his frogfish with little clownfishes.u can get them for 80cents each if u buy in bulk.he feeds them like once every 3 days..

[woonming]

May i ask if anyone know how to retain the colors on the frog fish?

I had one frog fish with pink dots with yellow body but after 1 week in my tank it became brown Second frog fish was a all white but turn brown too.

I heard frog fish would even eat each other should the size permit ?

..

Ming

[coralreef]

May i ask if anyone know how to retain the colors on the frog fish?

I had one frog fish with pink dots with yellow body but after 1 week in my tank it became brown Second frog fish was a all white but turn brown too.

I heard frog fish would even eat each other should the size permit ?

..

Ming

What you feed them with in the 1st place?

[shoelevy]

i think u can feed them guppies frmo those frsh water fish shops...but NOT the river shrimps...high in fat will damage liver

feel free to correct me if i'm wrong about the guppies

[livebait]

Can feed mollies also

[angry]

I weaned my frogfish to frozen lance fish. You can get them from reborn.

[angry]

Thanks for the advices both! Especially the links provide such detailed information.

One question though, lionfish can usually swallow up a fish of what size in respective of its own size? Is it 1/2 of its size or like frogfish can even swallow almost same size?

Its not as dangerous as the frogfish. It does eat anything that it can ft into its mouth tho so be careful.

[that was niceeeee]

my radiata just bought for $10 havent eat yet but in 2days time i try to feed it bout 2.5inch

[arcanehacker]

i think u can feed them guppies frmo those frsh water fish shops...but NOT the river shrimps...high in fat will damage liver

feel free to correct me if i'm wrong about the guppies

I think its the other way round. Its freshwater fishes which are high in fat content. .. if you really want o feed fishes I dun recomend guppies.. they die really fast and they then to swim at the top in Marine tanks. Maybe because they are air breathers so because they can't breathe well in salt water, they go to the top.

Try mollies instead.. they live long in salt water.. infact, some CAN live in marine water.

[that was niceeeee]

MY radiata ate those fresh water small prawns.. but lazy to swim leh..

[that was niceeeee]

dun mind i add something here...just wan to ask those lions experts out there..can i ave a fumanchu lionfish witha volitan?will the volitan eat the fumanchu?