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Originally Posted by aquaboy  Although these skirmishes are often nothing more than gill cover flaring, head shaking, and chasing, many times it's accompanied by a bite or two. If one lionfish persistently attacks another, they should be separated or the subordinate lionfish will cease feeding and may die. Another point of consideration when keeping both large and dwarf forms of lionfish together is that large lionfish will eat smaller lionfish, and I have personally witnessed this
on several occasions.
That article contradicts itself, if you plan on keeping them for a long time, and only small fights occur constantly. 1 will eventually struggle to survive. A Fu man chu, as far as i know is small, and a volitions, as far as i know, is big. |
closely related lionfish will fight. I have found this problem occurring most frequently with the dwarf lionfish, in that Dwarf Fuzzy lionfish will often harass Dwarf Zebra lions. Although these skirmishes are often nothing more than gill cover flaring, head shaking, and chasing, many times it's accompanied by a bite or two. If one lionfish persistently attacks another, they should be separated or the subordinate lionfish will cease feeding and may die.
NOTICE THE TERM,"closely related", which the fu man, and the v. lionfish, are NOT!
