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john hill 
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Posted: April 18 2009 at 5:32pm |
what does everyone feed your lionfish
do you buy live fish for them to eat or something else
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out with the large and in with the nano
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tealflame
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Posted: April 18 2009 at 6:32pm |
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when i firs got mine i fed him guppies cuz he wouldn't eat frozen food. but after a cpl months he decided it wasn't so bad, now i feed him frozen krill,clams and scallops
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leap first then look!
75 gal reef & 75 gal mostly fish
210 finally up and running
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Posted: April 18 2009 at 11:43pm |
I gave mine raw shrimp and krill
Linn
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Jake Pehrson
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Posted: April 19 2009 at 2:11am |
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I wouldn't feed them live food. It is expensive and hard to give them a good diet when using only live food. Try krill, silversides, shrimp (raw), squid, etc. Sometimes it takes a week or two to ween them onto frozen foods. If they refuse to eat frozen I will usually try for 10-14 days and feed them live for a few days to get them some food and then try again. Usually you can get them to accept frozen in a few days. Using a feeding stick can help.
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Debbles
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Posted: April 19 2009 at 7:01pm |
We feed ours the seafood medley stuff from the grocery store. Reams has a bag of frozen for $2.98. We also feed silversides and Rods predator food. He only gets a guppy for a treat every once and a while. I agree with Jake about the live food, they don't get the nutrition they need from a live food only diet.
Deb
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Yes Mikey...I still have fins!!!
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Posted: April 19 2009 at 9:27pm |
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when I had my lion, I decided to acclimate guppies to saltwater so I could have them as feeders. Also, I feed my lion mysis shrimp but I would have to use a turkey baster to blow the shrimp around before the lion would decided to eat them.
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