lion_crazz, I have to wonder where comments like "wild lionfish can live up to a month without eating" come from.
In the wild lionfish hunt about 3 times a day with about 8 hours between hunting trips.........in shallower water, the hunts are usually at dawn, dusk and in the midle of the night.
Each hunt usually ends up with 2-3 small fish and then they go back and lay around until they get hungry again.
This "gorging until they burst" thing is NOT a wild behavior, but rather a result of captivity where they are kept in borderline starvation conditions then allowed to pig out...in short, you're teaching the animal to be greedy, and would probably react the same way if that's the only way YOU were allowed to eat.
P. volians will actually team up and hunt in a pack, much like pelicans, driving the fish in front of them until they are cornered and can be picked off at leisure.
If food was so scarce that it was a month between feedings, you'd be able to tell because there wouldn't be any lionfish there, or any groupers or much of anything else.
There's just too much food available in the ocean except in the extreme depths.
Divers can stay down what, an hour?
How then would anyone know what a wild lionfish does for a month at a time?
That's people just talking without thinking first and often doing some real damge by doing it.
