My New Lion
 

Had one a year or so ago, but finally got one small enough to start out in my tank ago...

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Wow, nice PK! How many fish in your collection?

isn't it venomous? :helpme

that's a cool looking fish.

i'm picking up a red top and a yellow for my tank today... my poor neon's are gonna freak.

Lions are beautiful....nice PK :thumbsup

Kinda stocked low right now. There's 8 in a 140 gallon right now. The new Voltan lion, a spiny puffer, purple tang, rainbow wrasse, maroon clown, a heniochus, a squirrel fish, and a blue-front trigger.

Yep... each of those arrays has the equivilent of a needle running through it that can inject a poison into an unsuspecting victim. Not fun to get poked with. They do fine in a tank if they are one of the last put in there and there aren't any fish that will fit in its mouth.

nice, can i get a pic of the whole tank??? i used to scuba dive on guam and i have seen tons of lion fish. i saw one that was smaller than my palm once. he was a cute little guy. looked like he was flying in the water. :thumbsup

This lion isn't much bigger than that. It's better to start them smaller in a tank rather than larger. If they are smaller they grown up with the existing fish and they don't think of them as lunch.

Older pic of the tank itself..

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PK,

Nice tank. I have a lion in my tank as well and I love it. Its actually gotten pretty big and doesn't mess with the other fish too much.


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Pretty cool looking fish bro:thumbsup

I had a Lion in a small salt tank, and the live food got the whole tank very sick. I had to use this thick red fluid medication, which the store clerk neglegted to tell me would kill my anenomes

anyway, after the tank was cured, my Tomato Clown started hanging out behind the spines of the Lion! It was pretty cool, and nobody I spoke with had ever heard of that before.

Lions are great, but make sure you have some kind of barrier handy when you clean the tank. They can be pretty fiesty.

Both this one and the one I had previously eat frozen food (krill and spirulina based stuff).

best not to use live food - at least safer for the tank
if I set up another tank, the fish will all be pretty tame - I'm done with groupers

I caught one once off the Deerfield beach pier (south FL)... I was probably 10 y/o... lucky for me I didn't touch it eheh...

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Hats of to you all that can keep a salt tank in balance, I give up on those things.

can you eat those things?

i thinks such a fish is smelling bad

:1orglaugh

or you can eat them, but only one in your life

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Very nice tanks :thumbsup

hey pk is it hard taking care of a salt water tank