LFS Guy touched lion fish!

[tnt]

We have a picasso trigger and he is pretty small. I've heard lots of stories of them getting more agressive as they get bigger. So far, we've had good luck.

 

[konrade]

My fuzzy dwarg got all of his top gins bitten off by a damsel..... The damsel lived fine and showed no signs of being poisoned. Gamedawg, are you writing from experience?

 

[fungus]

Lionfish can also be extremely friendly; and when the feeders hand is in the tank moving rock etc. they will come right up too you. It's not that they're trying to attack; they're just being friendly and coming to see what your doing. If you have a major concern with being stung get your wife or friend to hold a small net in the direction of the lion; opposite to where you want to do your work, and he shouldn't bother you. If I had an allergy to stings I would just be extra cautious. We recently just added a fair sized Volitan into our 90GL.

 

[squidd]

I'd be more worried about a Grouper biteing than a Trigger or Lion...
But then if your truly worried about "scratchs, stings, bites and getting chewed on"...perhaps an "Aggerssive/Predator" tank is not for you...

 

[toughguy80]

AtlFish, lions are great fish to own. Like it's been said, they are very placid. I had 2 in my 180G(sadly one just died recently

) with an untold amount of LR. I rearranged it all 1 day and my biggest concern was not getting stung, but accidently smashing one. Now you wanna talk about an aggressive fish, my Sailfin tries to bite me every time I go into the tank lol. Actually it only does it till it realizes it's a hand and not food. It did bite me once and hurt like the dickens!