help dwarf lionfish care

[slikc4life]

i need held weening this guy off of guppies what is the best diet for him and how do i get him to eat he is about 4 inches long and the pet store was feeding him guppies are there any live saltwater feeders i can give him

 

[ophiura]

You may wish to post in the aggressive forum. Getting it off freshwater feeders is a good plan. You may wish to try feeding it live ghost/paleo/grass shrimp that some LFS sell. Have you tried to see if it is interested in thawed food like krill, bits of silversides, etc?

 

[slikc4life]

yes i tried thawed krill and fresh shrimp

 

[jonny bolt]

I got my Dwarf Lion when he was pretty young. He was eating fine at the LFS. He was timid in his new home for several days. I bought frozen silversides and already had a freezed dried krill. I tried several times to get him to eat those in the first several days I had him. No go. But once I threw in some live brine shrimp, which I do as a treat for my fish every few days, he went into "Stalking Mode" and come out to hunt. He likes to focus on one shrimp, stalk it, then eat it. At this point I began to understand that he wanted something that moved. He does this until he's had his fill. After what I think was about 10-14 days, he started recognizing me and began taking the krill. A few days after that, he started eating them right out of my hand. A week or 2 after that, he started eating chunks of silversides I would drop near him. Of everything, it the longest to get him to eat the silversides. But now he knows when its time to eat, and comes right up to the top to see me. Sometimes, he'll even come out and hang at the top and stare at me in the morning while I'm just booting up the PC. The light isnt even on yet, but he sees movement and wants to fill his belly

Instead of feeding him a crapload less frequently, I feed him small amounts every day. That way he learned the "schedule" of the tank faster.