new lionfish questions,

[aweo]

aloha, I found a small <1" lion that i havnt been able to identify, It was greenish when i found it but over night in my hospitle tank, it turned dark redish to match a rock.
few questions.
1. I have a medium -large and agresive coral bandit shrimp in my main tank. hes caught small fish(<1/2") and glass shrimp often. Will he kill the lion?
2. I fed it a small glass shrimp caught from the same area. its eaten 1 i think. How long between meals?
3. i was reading other posts on lion fish here, an someone mentioned not using brine shrimp, but gave no explaination. I have some brine that i was going to feed it, but I could use the same tank and drive out to the flats to catch more glass shrimp if brine is not wise.
Ill post a pic as soon as i find where my camera is.

 

[psusocr1]

nice lion, peopel say no brine shrimp because it has little to no nutritional value, also once that lion get s a little bigger hes gunna eat the shrimp not visaversa but i would use caution for awhile with them together

 

[moby]

Think of brine shrimp as cheetos. Most people love them but no one could live very long eating nothing but them.

They are VERY poor nutritional food.
I agree, eventually this little guy would eat the shrimp!
moby

 

[aweo]

mmm cheetos. Thats good to know.
im a bit worried that the glass shrimp are still to large. the fish's body is about nickle sized. and the shrimp arn't much smaller, and seem to be to smart/fast for him. (though i think hes just spooked by me or light.)
Any idea what he is? closest picture ive seen is someones avatar i cant find again. but his profile listed fuzzy dwarf as his favorite fish.

 

[surfinusa]

you are correct its a fuzzy dwarf lion how big is your tank

 

[aweo]

cool thanks surfin,
my show tank is 25g with only live rock and a cleaner crew (hermits, the coral banded, and local cowlries) been running for about a month.
ohh and a few pregnant glass shrimp.
I more of an invert guy, the intention of this tank was to keep bobtail squid which is a local grapesize cephlapod
I also keep a large rubber made tub as a tide pool set up. (approxiamtely 100-120gallons)
stocked similar to above but with some tiny bait fish. its a holding tank of sorts and it water is striat from the ocean.
Im also planning a large tank as part of a kitchen island (im an architect), maybe this fish would move that plan along.

 

[surfinusa]

cool good luck with him dwarf lions are very neat fish to watch you see it sit still and the next second it attacked a little feeder fish i saw this happen many many times at the pet store

 

[surfinusa]

whats the pink thing in the pic

 

[aweo]

pink thing is a smooth rock, with some corline (sp)? its the most non porous rock I could find. ive been cureing a bunch of live rock for my main tank and i didnt like it hiding right next to the pump intake. the fish is so small the magnification makes it look like something else.