Lionfish not eating ?

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Have a volitans lionfish (been with me for 6 months).

Eats anything ...prawn meat, pellets and even flakes.

One day it just suddenly stopped coming to the surface for food.

And this has been for days.

I'm suspecting he swallowed too much air ?

Any insight ?

[Achilles Tang]

Is the stomach sunken or bloated?

Have you been overfeeding the lionfish? They are known to get gastro-intestinal problems easily when overfed.

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gastro-intestinal problems

HMMM ...Sounds possible ....

Do they recover ?

[Achilles Tang]

Hard to say. Wait and see. Is it listless or still active?

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slightly listless.

Hangs in the corner most of the time. (used to roam non-stop)

very non-responsive to me when i'm feeding also.

But i've still managed to feed it.

Almost force-feed matter of fact.

Kept sticking a piece of prawn in its face and it ate.

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Achilles Tang ??

Do they recover ? any idea ?

My once free-swimming voracious volitans is now a "stone lion" !!!

Damn upset.