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Old 08-24-2006, 07:35 AM   #1
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Where lionfishes spend their time. Pictures intensive!


Just general pictorial info about my sequentual lionfishes, share yours pictures.

90g tank, full tank view, antennata lionfish on the sleeping cave. Note: only this cave, more closed that anothers is used for a sleep, it has deep inside pocket (ceiling?) where the whole lionfish almost can't be seen. Also, this is lowest flow area.

Antennata before entrance:

Antennata inside the cave, with the blood shrimp:

Same case with volitan lionfish (now dead, rest in peace)- in the cave with the same blood shrimp:


Another frequently used during daytime shaded places, of artificial origin:
Antennata and the basket:




Volitan in the shade of the HOB filter:

under in-tank refugium with chaeto:

under Quick-Filter attachment for powerhead:


They also prefer corals or algae as carpeting for a bare stones.

What are yours doing?
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Old 08-24-2006, 01:17 PM   #2
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very nice pics!!!

our antennata actually stayed out a fair amount.

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Old 08-24-2006, 05:34 PM   #3
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Im a noob and this is probably a dumb question, but how is it that the shrimp and clown havnt been eaten?
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Old 08-25-2006, 08:49 AM   #4
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how is it that the shrimp and clown havnt been eaten?
If by the lion - they are too big, and a blood shrimp is too hard for juvenile antennata. Lion is fed in sufficient quantities by a soft ghost shrimp (irresistable for filefish and puffer too) and feeder fish. What didn't prevent him from eating this size chromises - I couldn't even imagine that they will fit in.

Surviving chromises had to go to another, reef tank, where this clown almost killed one of them. So clown went to the big tank, where he tried become friendly with the puffer and school with him - and was bited at the tail in the first day. Now clown continue schooling wisth a puffer, but after him, not under his nose.


Smaller than that scooter blennies are not recognized as food, somehow. There are also a lot of hermits in the tank - I had never seen fish eating them, but some hermits are found dead.
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Old 08-26-2006, 04:51 PM   #5
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Thats so cool i want to start a lionfish tank one day
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Old 08-26-2006, 08:38 PM   #6
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If you will buy a lionfish someday, check which kinds have more difficulties with accepting frozen food - my volitan, for example, started to eat frozen food when other fishes were fed, no problem, but with this antennata I had stuck - it eats only moving live feeder fish and ghost shrimp, no amount of starvation and training helped. And this diet is not good for it's health, and one more tank to take care of for me .
One of the threads mentioning dwarfs is here http://thereeftank.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81194
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Old 08-27-2006, 03:44 PM   #7
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I Kind of want a Radiata. So as long as the lion is well fed it wont eat any other fish? what else can I keep in the tank to cleen besides a shrimp? Do you have any other tips on keeping a lionfish tank?
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Old 08-28-2006, 01:49 AM   #8
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I also liked the radiata but from research they are also very difficult to get to eat frozen food. The antennata is supposed to be easier to get to eat but as we read above not all of them will. I am doing as much research as I can before I decide which lion to go with.
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Old 08-29-2006, 10:02 AM   #9
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Good point, with my antennata I just relaxed, remembering easyness of my lost volitan. Even mandarin dragonets, which arrived much later, now are weaned to eat frozen food - antennata just looks incomprehensively at the frozen shrimp piece, then on me - I clearly feel how it "shrugs shoulders".

A lot of fishes are troublesome somehow - including agressive cleaner wrasses and clowns, peaceful but with potential puffers and big-mouthed lions and anglers (?scorpion fish family, bottom dweller with short stump "feet").
There is thread about volitans, but all is applicable to the other lions http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...hreadid=137591

Basic requirements are: source of food, not too bright light, quite closed caves to have some peace and quiet, good filtration/skimmer, non-bothering tankmates - even fast-swimming wrasse or ignoring, going over your head mandarin, could irritate. Anyone with pincers and sharp teeth can bite off lion's fins. I'm keeping salinity at 1.025, but had read that some lions prefer up to 027. As a cleanup crew, I have hermits, what may be not a good idea - they killed all but one astrea snails, and have a turbo-snails. Nor urchin, nor serpent star were useful for cleaning.

Who was eaten, despite fed lion (not well-fed, it's matter of saltwater origin of the small fish, which is more useful for a lion, and of the timing - when lion becomes hungry and you are not around to feed) - green chromises on the picture above, just right size. Also, when herded, they don't run away, but are trying to hide in the corner - easy prey.
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Old 08-30-2006, 10:45 AM   #10
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Very sharp, beautiful pics!!!
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Old 09-02-2006, 09:39 PM   #12
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Thanks! Just basic automated digital camera - I also like it's work
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