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Originally Posted by volleygirlie2414  ***Does anyone on here have a lionfish, or know about their feeding needs??***I really need to know approximately when to feed him!! Thanks  |
We fed the ones at the store live feeders every couple of days. See if you can find feeder mollies, usually like 6 for $1 or something like that. Mollies are brackish water fish which can be turned into saltwater (el cheapo cycling fish) People will tell you to acclimte them, but I never did, and I never had a problem with them. They are generally consumed fairly quickly. Depending on the size of your lion depends on how many to feed it. You could also try silversides(small bait fish sold as food in LFS's) or possibly raw fish from the local meat market(walmart). I SERIOUSLY reccommend using a feeding stick if you feed anything other then livefood. Pick up a piece of rigid airline tubing, the kind that comes with a undergravel filter. Cut the tip into a point so you can stab whatever you're trying to feed it and waving it in front of its mouth.
Eventually, if you keep it long term, you can be able to hand feed it, but gotta watch out for its spines. I had an orange toadfish for a number of years, and I had it tame enough that when I walked by the tank, it would swim to the surface and roll on its side so I could rub its belly, lol.
