Keeping a dwarf lionfish

sphelps · #1 11-17-2011, 04:45 PM

While I suppose not all lions are the same I would still conclude an aggressive one to be rare and not typical. I've kept many lions and always together with various tank makes including other lions, frogfish and other scorpions. In addition many others do the same and you'll even often see multiple lions in one tank at the LFS. I've never seen territorial or real aggression behavior from a lion, it's always protective in the form of pointing or waving fins at approaching threats, this is especially true of the Fu-man.

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JTang · #2 12-26-2011, 12:22 AM

Hey Chris, I'm hoping to do the same with my 46 bowfront... dwarf lion, puffer, eel, trigger - the ones that dont fit in the reef tank.

sphelps: That's my dream tank! Great Work! (I didn't know you can keep a lion/eel with a seahorse??? I thought seahorses r very sensitive n fragile...)

Bugsy · #3 03-20-2012, 03:22 PM

Hello Chris,

I had a dwarf lionfish a few years back. It came to me on frozen foods but.... it was sure not easy to feed. Although it did eat the varieties I fed it I had him for just about 1 year and then he died. Beautiful fish very hard to keep in my opinion.

tang daddy · #4 03-23-2012, 04:40 PM

I have a crappy cell phone pic but don't know how to post it....Maybe if I sent it to a member they could help me??

Mandosh · #5 03-23-2012, 05:07 PM

Here you go Chris...

Looks like a Fuzzy Dwarf/Shortfin (Dendrochirus brachypterus)

badfish! · #6 03-23-2012, 05:34 PM

He's sweet, I just got one too, I like how he's super stealthy moving about my rocks! Good luck with him

tang daddy · #7 03-23-2012, 07:31 PM

Thanks Mandosh for posting a pic, I guess I got the names mixed up abit thanks for clearing it up aswell!

paddyob · #8 12-26-2011, 12:31 AM

In the first pic the white lines around the fish make it appear super imposed or photo shopped. Kinda funny.

Do much editing?

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Originally Posted by sphelps

While I suppose not all lions are the same I would still conclude an aggressive one to be rare and not typical. I've kept many lions and always together with various tank makes including other lions, frogfish and other scorpions. In addition many others do the same and you'll even often see multiple lions in one tank at the LFS. I've never seen territorial or real aggression behavior from a lion, it's always protective in the form of pointing or waving fins at approaching threats, this is especially true of the Fu-man.

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The Grizz · #9 12-26-2011, 01:18 AM

I have a Fuzzy Dwarf Lion in my FOWLR with a couple Triggers, couple Puffers, couple Damsels and a trio of Clowns.

It was not eating anything at all for the first week or so but it really got hungry finally, My FOWLR residents all really like krill & silversides all chopped up.

I dump about a half ounce or so into the tank and the Lion finds what he wants & sucks it back.

The funnest was when the lion & my Valentini Puffer where tracking the same piece of krill. The lion won the food but the puffer gave the lion a one heck of a headbutt, rammed right into the lion right in the mouth. Now at feeding time the puffers and lion are on different sides of the tank.

whatcaneyedo · #10 12-26-2011, 02:27 AM

I got mine in 2009 from a LFS that had already taught it to eat frozen. For the last three years I've been feeding it silversides or krill every second day by mounting them into the end of a length of hollow acrylic rod.

Why don't you want to put a skimmer on your FOWLR?