What order to add fish?
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risc
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Mark-24:
Your primary goal in this case is to get your antennata to eat similar foods you feed your eel and trigger... They all in the end should accept the same diet. I do not have any experience with Foxface, but I have had 60+ lions in my day. I know they can at times be somewhat picky eaters when other aggessives are around. Unless of course you are feeding them live feeders all the time. I would add the lion and the eel first... followed by the Wrasse and the Trigger. I cannot say much for the Foxface as I am not familiar with them.
Jim
Your primary goal in this case is to get your antennata to eat similar foods you feed your eel and trigger... They all in the end should accept the same diet. I do not have any experience with Foxface, but I have had 60+ lions in my day. I know they can at times be somewhat picky eaters when other aggessives are around. Unless of course you are feeding them live feeders all the time. I would add the lion and the eel first... followed by the Wrasse and the Trigger. I cannot say much for the Foxface as I am not familiar with them.
Jim
lionfish
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LionFish says......
Well, I tend to agree with risc on this particular topic. Seeing as the lion is the slowest of the feeders, it is always best to introduce him first so he will be more used to the tank and be a more aggressive feeder by the time you add the others. Anyways, the lion is the most hardy of those fish, so I would have told you to add him first anyways. Also, do not feed them live food all the time. Feed sparingly with live foods. Maybe once a week with a couple guppies for each fish. The feeders have no nutritional value and therefore a strict diet of feeders would lead to malnutrition and most likely death. Add the lion first, then the eel or the Tusk, and lastly always add the Trigger last to reduce aggression. Hope your set-up works out for you.
Well, I tend to agree with risc on this particular topic. Seeing as the lion is the slowest of the feeders, it is always best to introduce him first so he will be more used to the tank and be a more aggressive feeder by the time you add the others. Anyways, the lion is the most hardy of those fish, so I would have told you to add him first anyways. Also, do not feed them live food all the time. Feed sparingly with live foods. Maybe once a week with a couple guppies for each fish. The feeders have no nutritional value and therefore a strict diet of feeders would lead to malnutrition and most likely death. Add the lion first, then the eel or the Tusk, and lastly always add the Trigger last to reduce aggression. Hope your set-up works out for you.
fishin family
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Hi Mark!
We're not real versed in the Ways of Saltwater, so not giving any advice here.. just wanted to say it sounds like it's going to be a real nice setup with those fish, and to wish you good luck with it!
We're not real versed in the Ways of Saltwater, so not giving any advice here.. just wanted to say it sounds like it's going to be a real nice setup with those fish, and to wish you good luck with it!
dlight692000
Member
addition to tank first to last
1.lion
2. eel(make sure you have no openings in the tank
***see how they do and in a little bit add
3. the tusk (because they need pretty good water conditions) make him bigger then the trigger but smaller then the foxface but not by much
(lol i will talk to mother nature for you lol)
4.foxface
5. trigger
now on that foxface, he could get beat up so watch out.
1.lion
2. eel(make sure you have no openings in the tank
***see how they do and in a little bit add
3. the tusk (because they need pretty good water conditions) make him bigger then the trigger but smaller then the foxface but not by much
(lol i will talk to mother nature for you lol)
4.foxface
5. trigger
now on that foxface, he could get beat up so watch out.
mark-24
Member
Well the foxface's top spines are venomous, so they can hold their own pretty well. My dad had a lionfish in a 55 gal tank when he was in college, so he has some experiance with lionfish. He said that when he first got him he was eating 1 gold fish every 3 days to 3 gold fish a day. This was like 20+ years ago, so they dont know what we know now about saltwater fish.
-Mark
-Mark
dlight692000
Member
i kno thge top spines are but what about his tail, and such, they will get nipped a lot IMO, just make sure you get the trigger a lot smaller then the foxface and the tusk right in the middle of the two
trigahappynigerog
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lion first everything else one week at a time and trigger last