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ek9reefer912 05/16/2012 09:34 PM

Dwarf lion in reef?
 
Has anyone been successful with keeping a dwarf lion in there reef?

TheGodParticle 05/16/2012 09:51 PM

I've never had any luck with any kind of dwarf lion period in any kind of tank....but I've kept many Volitan Lions in a reef tank with great success.

calveezzzy 05/16/2012 09:53 PM

My dwarf fuzzy is doing well in my tank so far, but it's only been a week. He's happily eating live feeder fish!

ek9reefer912 05/16/2012 09:55 PM

You've kept volitan in a reef that's crazy I keep reading and getting mixed signals since some say dwarf lions are aggressive and some say they arent. I was thinking of getting a pair of snowflake clowns but I dont want to loose them from the lion. What fish did you have in your tank besides the volitan?

ek9reefer912 05/16/2012 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by calveezzzy (Post 20261557)
My dwarf fuzzy is doing well in my tank so far, but it's only been a week. He's happily eating live feeder fish!

Are all of your fish on live feeders or just the lion?

calveezzzy 05/16/2012 10:10 PM

Just my lion. The rest are eating frozen Mysis shrimp and flakes.

bullitr 05/16/2012 10:19 PM

Murphreef had one on his amazing tank for a long time before he broke it down.

I wont put one on my reef since I have way to many small fish.

ek9reefer912 05/16/2012 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by calveezzzy (Post 20261599)
Just my lion. The rest are eating frozen Mysis shrimp and flakes.

Ok that's what i thought you would have to do. Thanks I'm think I'm gonna get one now

ek9reefer912 05/16/2012 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by bullitr (Post 20261625)
Murphreef had one on his amazing tank for a long time before he broke it down.

I wont put one on my reef since I have way to many small fish.

By any chance do you know if he had clowns with it

saltyg135er 05/16/2012 10:41 PM

I have had my dwarf lion for a good year and he was in my mixed reef. I trained him to eat frozen mysis amd I picassco clowns and a small red headed goby and he never tried to eat them. Sad it died when my new tank was still get ready. I'm thinking about getting another one, but training him to eat took about a month. But he would be out in feont when iy was feeding time and all the fishes would swim bu him without no fear. That is just my experience, hope that helps some.
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KWoo008 05/17/2012 12:18 AM

I can't remember which it is, but I think it's the fuzzy that have a higher survival rate in captivity. The way I see it, consider yourself lucky if you've never lost a fish that can fit inside a lion fish's mouth

calveezzzy 05/17/2012 02:29 AM

BTW, the smallest fish I have in my tank are my 3 green chromis, plus I have a skunk cleaner shrimp and he hasn't tried to eat them yet. I also feed him every 3rd day, since he eats like 4-6 feeders a day!

ek9reefer912 05/17/2012 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by saltyg135er (Post 20261690)
I have had my dwarf lion for a good year and he was in my mixed reef. I trained him to eat frozen mysis amd I picassco clowns and a small red headed goby and he never tried to eat them. Sad it died when my new tank was still get ready. I'm thinking about getting another one, but training him to eat took about a month. But he would be out in feont when iy was feeding time and all the fishes would swim bu him without no fear. That is just my experience, hope that helps some.
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That's awesome I deffinatly am going to try one in my reef thanks for the help

ek9reefer912 05/17/2012 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by calveezzzy (Post 20262012)
BTW, the smallest fish I have in my tank are my 3 green chromis, plus I have a skunk cleaner shrimp and he hasn't tried to eat them yet. I also feed him every 3rd day, since he eats like 4-6 feeders a day!

Thats awesome, hopefully it will work out for me as nice as it has for you lol

Jenzifer 05/17/2012 03:22 PM

had one with no problems to the reef or other fish..but it died then went in my toilet.

calveezzzy 05/17/2012 05:34 PM

How did it die?

TheGodParticle 05/17/2012 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by ek9reefer912 (Post 20261568)
You've kept volitan in a reef that's crazy What fish did you have in your tank besides the volitan?

Yup... He ate my Cleaner Shrimp but ill take that sacrifice. Other then that he's never touched my snails or crabs or my cleaner wrasse. I have him with 2 purple tangs, a yellow tang, a Male Blue Throat Trigger, and an Australian Harlequin Tusk. All in mixed reef mostly LPS and SPS dominate. He's always been a model citizen aside from the shrimp....

ek9reefer912 05/17/2012 07:15 PM

Has anyone had one jump my brother had one for about 2 weeks and found it behind his tank and he had all of his other fish for about 2 years.

ek9reefer912 05/17/2012 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by TheGodParticle (Post 20264500)
Yup... He ate my Cleaner Shrimp but ill take that sacrifice. Other then that he's never touched my snails or crabs or my cleaner wrasse. I have him with 2 purple tangs, a yellow tang, a Male Blue Throat Trigger, and an Australian Harlequin Tusk. All in mixed reef mostly LPS and SPS dominate. He's always been a model citizen aside from the shrimp....

I built my tank as a octopus tank and after BORA my octopus died of old age me and my gf decided to just get fish since traveling to the beach every weekend to get hermits and fidler crabs became a pain and lions are my favorite fish kept in captivity to see how it works out in reefs and this was a great help I'm gonna go ahead and get one and see how it works out

TheGodParticle 05/17/2012 11:23 PM

Awesome! Hope it works out for you as good as it's worked for me. What else will you be keeping with the Lion?

ek9reefer912 05/17/2012 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by TheGodParticle (Post 20265685)
Awesome! Hope it works out for you as good as it's worked for me. What else will you be keeping with the Lion?

My stock list I'm hoping for is going to be a pair of snowflake clowns, the dwarf lion, a mandarin goby (will be dosing Rotifers) my brothers file fish and a six line wrassle

nrosdal 05/17/2012 11:58 PM

i have had one for 2 months now and nothing is missing.. it is a relatively small fuzzy dwarf. I have very recently added a slightly larger male fuzzy lion and they seem to be getting on quite well as are all the other fish in the reef.

calveezzzy 05/18/2012 02:09 AM

Hope the snowflakes are a pretty good size. If they're small enough to fit in the fuzzies mouth, he might eat them!

ek9reefer912 05/18/2012 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by calveezzzy (Post 20265915)
Hope the snowflakes are a pretty good size. If they're small enough to fit in the fuzzies mouth, he might eat them!

Yea I'm gonna try to get a little bigger clowns first and wait untill I find a small lion so I have less of a chance with the clowns dissapering

calveezzzy 05/18/2012 11:41 AM

Cool! Keep us updated on the status of your fuzzy!


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