Lionfish!

[MBVette]

Just got my volitan lionfish in for my fowlr.  Cant wait to get him home and into the tank later.

 

Edited May 29, 2013 by MBVette

[Coral Hind]

Congrats! Do you have a build thread for the FOWLR?

[MBVette]

Nah, I was lazy and didnt take any pictures or document anything with this thread.  Just plugged it in and have let it go.  I will get something up about the tank soon

[smallreef]

Heheh yep...August huh?

Looks like he's a cute tiny little lion:) if you can ever say that....

[MBVette]

Yeah well Kim you are a bad influence; I had all intentions of waiting.  lol

 

He is about 3" nose to tail and maybe a bit more than that across his fins.

[CaptainRon]

Way cool Scott. you actually lasted longer than I thought you would!

[MBVette]

So I got him into the tank last night and he was very active, swimming all around.  I dropped some table shrimp into the tank for him and the tusk.  he hunted it a bit, but didnt take it.  But I was really pleased to see him hunting, I will try again on a feeding stick.  But knowing that lions can go a long time w/o eating Im not worried and think he will transition to frozen foods easily.

 

Here are some crappy pics from last night

 

Right when I put him into the tank

 

After a few minutes he settled down and came right out

 

 

[Coral Hind]

Looks nice. It normally takes them a couple days to settle in first, then it will eat like a pig.

[LCDRDATA]

We're thinking about an antenna lionfish (P. antennata) for our FOWLR - volitans gets too big.

[MBVette]

yeah he is definitly going to wind up getting to big for this tank and I will have to rehome him at some point.  I knew that going into this

[howaboutme]

yeah he is definitly going to wind up getting to big for this tank and I will have to rehome him at some point.  I knew that going into this

 

Scott, if you every want to upgrade your fowlr from this 93G, i'd be happy to rehome it (again).

[MBVette]

After a week and a half I got him to eat for the first time. I had been trying fresh shrimp and frozen lance fish I have. He looked at watched everything but refused to eat.

 

So the shop had some Jan's carnivore blend and I decided it was a shot in the dark but to try it before I got some love food. And I overfed just so he really saw it. But he took a good look at it for 30 seconds and then ate a pretty good amount. I'm so excited that he ate tonight, I was starting to get worried.