lionfish thoughts

[antwon]

i recently bought a volitans lion about a month ago and he is about three inches. i saw a black volitan the other day and wanted to buy him but didn't know if i could put two in one tank. would this be ok? my tank is a 72 gallon

 

[saxman]

The lions should be fine together, but even one volitans in a 72 gal is one volitans too many once it reaches adulthood.
 
Like many folks, I used to think that fudging them into a smaller setup wasn't such a bad idea until we upgraded ours into a "proper" tank (it has outgrown 4 setups, which was the plan) and it has really changed now that it has some "real" room to move around and stretch out.
 
HTH

 

[antwon]

well once he got too big i planned on taking back to the lfs to get another because i like aggresive fish but dont have a very large tank so this wuz my plan with most of my future fish