little girl lion

[PvtBercaw]

Our little dwarf fuzzy before we had her scooped up and bagged

 

[PvtBercaw]

She's all of an inch and a half long

 

[ErinCahir]

She's SUPER cute!

 

[PvtBercaw]

Thanks much

 

[Samhain]

Too stinkin' cute! If I wasn't worried it would eat some of the other fish on my planned stocklist (like a goby) I would totally be putting one in my 90 gallon tank. Adorable pickup!

 

[PvtBercaw]

Ty samhain will be posting new picks when I get to acclimation and introduction.... wife thinks Nala should be her name ideas?

 

[jcegt87]

is she trained to eat frozen?


nala , would be perfect, mine was named simba :D

 

[Samhain]

Nala is a great name! You must have a Disneyphile in the house. Or little people!

 

[Smitty]

Awesome looking fish...

 

[PvtBercaw]

Both haha and thanks smitty she is in the acclimation bucket now and my wife dropped a feeder minnow in with her..... and she got it already holy moly hungry lil devil

 

[PvtBercaw]

Here she is in her acclimation bucket after she ate the feeder... you can still see the tail

And here she is in the tank first few mins

 

[chuck78]

I hope that wasn't a freshwater minnow. Alot of lionfish owners tend to feed their fish friend with animals from freshwater. Freshwater fish can pass on nasty little diseases to saltwater fish & eels. Cute fish too!

 

[jcegt87]

try and train it to eat frozen, and please dont feed freshwater fish because they contain fatty acids that the saltwater fish cannot break down, its like us eating nothing but potato chips, cute fish :D

i took me 10 days to train mine to frozen food, i miss em

 

[PvtBercaw]

Thanks for the heads up the feeder was what the lfs owner directed me to but I shall cease

 

[active]

priceless - awesome fish

 

[little_fish]

very cute! and that is very good advice on the feeding.

 

[PvtBercaw]

Anyone have tips on training her to take frozen silversides? I've never had to train a fish to take frozen foods of any kind before

 

[jcegt87]

you can use tongs and hold krill by the tail and just wave it to catch its attention DO NOT SHOVE IT IN ITS FACE or try and force it to eat that will just make it loose interest , because in the wild the fish dont just come into its mouth, remember lions are hunters , half the fun is the hunt , make it look distressed because they are also opportunistic

also another way is get a piece of krill and with your hand just wave it just under the water surface to catch its attention and slowly move the krill across the water

during all this regardless of what way you choose , keep an eye on your lions eyes , if its interested it will follow the food with its eyes, its not easy and it is irritating at times but well worth it at the end. it took me 10 days to get mine to eat , and it was because he was starving, during the training process DO NOT DO NOT feed it live food or youll be back at square one, you could probably entice it to eat by soaking the krill in garlic extract

hope this helps

 

[PvtBercaw]

Thanks very much jcegt