Feeding a Volitan
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leopard_babe
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After reading that I am hearing the jaws music in my head. lol
Making the food look live is always a bonus... such as wiggling it.
And yes I am being serious.
Making the food look live is always a bonus... such as wiggling it.
And yes I am being serious.
jp30338
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Originally Posted by Leopard_babe
http:///forum/post/2759620
After reading that I am hearing the jaws music in my head. lol
Making the food look live is always a bonus... such as wiggling it.
And yes I am being serious.
Oh yea it goes thru my head as well while Im feeding. My lion loves to stalk its prey down!
http:///forum/post/2759620
After reading that I am hearing the jaws music in my head. lol
Making the food look live is always a bonus... such as wiggling it.
And yes I am being serious.
Oh yea it goes thru my head as well while Im feeding. My lion loves to stalk its prey down!
srfisher17
Active Member
Originally Posted by Heavy
http:///forum/post/2759635
Thanks alot. I have been told to wriggle it. This confirms the method.
Use a piece of rigid airline tubing, tapered at one end, to offer food, works great. If you attach a few feet of regular tubing, a little suction will capture food chunks that escape. Forget pellets. Offer fresh squid (a favorite), appropriate size chunks of fresh shrimp, clam, raw SW fish, scallops, krill, silversides, etc. A garlic supplement often helps with reluctant eaters. IMO, variety, not over-feeding (a lion should always be hungry), and vitamin supplements are the keys to long-term lion health.
http:///forum/post/2759635
Thanks alot. I have been told to wriggle it. This confirms the method.
Use a piece of rigid airline tubing, tapered at one end, to offer food, works great. If you attach a few feet of regular tubing, a little suction will capture food chunks that escape. Forget pellets. Offer fresh squid (a favorite), appropriate size chunks of fresh shrimp, clam, raw SW fish, scallops, krill, silversides, etc. A garlic supplement often helps with reluctant eaters. IMO, variety, not over-feeding (a lion should always be hungry), and vitamin supplements are the keys to long-term lion health.
cranberry
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I use large stanless steele tweezers, but until you know him a little better I would try to get plastic ones (if ya go that route). They have a lunge pattern, that until you are familar with it, he could end up banging his mouth up on the SS.
All those lovely foods the srfisher mentioned... feed ALL of it (at different times of course). I have 3 foods on the go at a time because all my predators eat on Mon, Wed and Fri. Everyday they get something different. When the 3 packages are gone I pick up 3 different ones to mix it up.
I don't use vitamin supplements.... but everyone is different.
All those lovely foods the srfisher mentioned... feed ALL of it (at different times of course). I have 3 foods on the go at a time because all my predators eat on Mon, Wed and Fri. Everyday they get something different. When the 3 packages are gone I pick up 3 different ones to mix it up.
I don't use vitamin supplements.... but everyone is different.
jp30338
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Originally Posted by Cranberry
http:///forum/post/2759805
I use large stanless steele tweezers, but until you know him a little better I would try to get plastic ones (if ya go that route). They have a lunge pattern, that until you are familar with it, he could end up banging his mouth up on the SS.
All those lovely foods the srfisher mentioned... feed ALL of it (at different times of course). I have 3 foods on the go at a time because all my predators eat on Mon, Wed and Fri. Everyday they get something different. When the 3 packages are gone I pick up 3 different ones to mix it up.
I don't use vitamin supplements.... but everyone is different.
Hey cran,
How much do you usually feed during feeding days? I am trying to figure that out as tto not over or underfeed my fish.
http:///forum/post/2759805
I use large stanless steele tweezers, but until you know him a little better I would try to get plastic ones (if ya go that route). They have a lunge pattern, that until you are familar with it, he could end up banging his mouth up on the SS.
All those lovely foods the srfisher mentioned... feed ALL of it (at different times of course). I have 3 foods on the go at a time because all my predators eat on Mon, Wed and Fri. Everyday they get something different. When the 3 packages are gone I pick up 3 different ones to mix it up.
I don't use vitamin supplements.... but everyone is different.
Hey cran,
How much do you usually feed during feeding days? I am trying to figure that out as tto not over or underfeed my fish.
cranberry
Active Member
Until he starts to slow and there's a bulge in his belly.... or the foods all gone. I keep feeding if he responds fast... usually I have to put one piece on one side of the tank and then go to the other side so he has to swim and give me a chance to get it in there. Otherwise he's too close to the surface for me to get in there... all his rays stick out of the water.
If I put it in and he doesn't come running, he's done. I wait just a bit to make sure he doesn't have a chunk his his mouth he's "rearranging", thus the hesitancy.
He's looking at me right now.... he wants my California Roll.
If I put it in and he doesn't come running, he's done. I wait just a bit to make sure he doesn't have a chunk his his mouth he's "rearranging", thus the hesitancy.
He's looking at me right now.... he wants my California Roll.
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vinnyraptor
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ive done this with both lions and groupers. get a few garbage bag twisties and remove the paper or plastic leaving only the thin wire. wire a few together for length then run it up the back of a fully thawed whole silverside ( make sure its not broken and looks sorta alive). swim it around the lion an even have it appear to run when he gets close. he will take it and the wire will slip out harmlessly. after a few weeks you'll be able to pour the silversides in and he'll take them. I Guarentee it!
Originally Posted by Heavy
http:///forum/post/2759510
Does anyone have any pointers on getting a lionfish to eat things other that live food. Say silversides or krill or even pellets?
Originally Posted by Heavy
http:///forum/post/2759510
Does anyone have any pointers on getting a lionfish to eat things other that live food. Say silversides or krill or even pellets?
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vinnyraptor
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Originally Posted by VinnyRaptor
http:///forum/post/2759872
ive done this with both lions and groupers. get a few garbage bag twisties and remove the paper or plastic leaving only the thin wire. wire a few together for length then run it up the back of a fully thawed whole silverside ( make sure its not broken and looks sorta alive). swim it around the lion an even have it appear to run when he gets close. he will take it and the wire will slip out harmlessly. after a few weeks you'll be able to pour the silversides in and he'll take them. I Guarentee it!
also variety is the best diet as stated earlier. once you get him to take the silversides, he should take krill, and any other frozen foods. feeding every 2 or 3 days is my suggestion but everyone is different. they should always be hungry though.
http:///forum/post/2759872
ive done this with both lions and groupers. get a few garbage bag twisties and remove the paper or plastic leaving only the thin wire. wire a few together for length then run it up the back of a fully thawed whole silverside ( make sure its not broken and looks sorta alive). swim it around the lion an even have it appear to run when he gets close. he will take it and the wire will slip out harmlessly. after a few weeks you'll be able to pour the silversides in and he'll take them. I Guarentee it!
also variety is the best diet as stated earlier. once you get him to take the silversides, he should take krill, and any other frozen foods. feeding every 2 or 3 days is my suggestion but everyone is different. they should always be hungry though.
jp30338
Member
Originally Posted by Cranberry
http:///forum/post/2759907
Stop looking at my sashimi!!
LOL
everytime I eat mine is begging as well
http:///forum/post/2759907
Stop looking at my sashimi!!
LOL
everytime I eat mine is begging as well
