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[Lionfish Lair]

When I introduced the second leaf, there was a lot of puffy and blowing and standing on fins to lift their bellies off the gravel. I was like "oh oh". They simmered down. The bigger one was always a bit of a butt to everyone, actually.

 

[TomatoSauceTy]

Awesome! I had a trio and then a cockatoo together and they all did fine. Talk about a bottom heavy tank!

May I ask what size tank? I have a 50g cube I do 15g water changes on weekly-biweekly and would love a trio, but I don't want to push it. LPS only tank.

 

[TomatoSauceTy]

When I introduced the second leaf, there was a lot of puffy and blowing and standing on fins to lift their bellies off the gravel. I was like "oh oh". They simmered down. The bigger one was always a bit of a butt to everyone, actually.

I'm glad you told me this!!! The new smaller pink one actually had it's fin on the side of the yellow one and was "floating" against a rock before I realized where the yellow one actually was!

Is it natural for them to face opposite directions or is that more of a stand-off sort of thing? They seem fine most of the time.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

You could absolutely put a trio in there, provided you have enough room for them to "walk" around.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

I'm glad you told me this!!! The new smaller pink one actually had it's fin on the side of the yellow one and was "floating" against a rock before I realized where the yellow one actually was!

Is it natural for them to face opposite directions or is that more of a stand-off sort of thing? They seem fine most of the time.

That may be a stand off and are hopefully just establishing their rank. My larger meaner leaf once clamped onto a fuzzies face. He let go immediately, but I swear the fuzzy had an expression of "What the heck, Dude!".

 

[TomatoSauceTy]

You could absolutely put a trio in there, provided you have enough room for them to "walk" around.

Thanks! Leaf scorpionfish are by far my favorite fish now! BTW I'm a member on your forum under another name, but I haven't posted recently I appreciate all of the info your site and forum have provided.

I have some meat corals and a scoly on the sandbed which take up room but they don't seem to mind, they often sleep under the hammer corals at night.

 

[TomatoSauceTy]

That may be a stand off and are hopefully just establishing their rank. My larger meaner leaf once clamped onto a fuzzies face. He let go immediately, but I swear the fuzzy had an expression of "What the heck, Dude!".

The yellow one is about an inch larger, but the pink one seems to be showing more dominance.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Do red/pinks think they are prettier or something?? The red that was "dominating" in my tank was also larger than the yellow. In this picture, can you see he's standing on his fins. He was totally puffing himself up.

 

[rayn]

I did min in a 29, but was probably pushing it. You could easily keep trio in a 50. As Lionfish said, it's all walking room with your landscape. Create a kind of step system and they will hop up on the rocks too.

 

[TomatoSauceTy]

Gorgeous lion, I will keep an eye out for that position! I'm usually just aw struck by them I don't notice the subtle things.

 

[TomatoSauceTy]

I did min in a 29, but was probably pushing it. You could easily keep trio in a 50. As Lionfish said, it's all walking room with your landscape. Create a kind of step system and they will hop up on the rocks too.

I have a fu manchu lionfish in there also, he is honestly a pig! He LOVES hunting ghost shrimp and eating frozen mysis! I have to keep him away with a net sometimes otherwise it's a pain to feed the leaf fish!

He spends most of the time upside down in the cave until it's feeding time, but at night i spot him creeping around.

 

[TomatoSauceTy]

BTW I have a 95% hammer / meat coral tank and was thinking about putting some sponges / macroalgae / gorgonians in the corners for the leafs to blend in with, opinions?

 

[rayn]

They will love to hangout in the macros. Part of the scorp bit if camouflage. Give them a place to hide and they kinda come to their element.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

You can keep any coral with lions and scorps. It's kind of an ole wives tale that they belong in FOWLR.

I had 3 fuzzies, a radiata, sphex, Fu manchu, "reef scorp", cockatoo.... there's someone I'm forgetting..... anyway I had them all in a 100g. I spent the whole feeding beating someone with the feeding stick, so I know what you speak of. I fed the leafs in a net. Soon as I put the net in, they'd come crawling.

They became friends..... well as far as I could tell.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Doug, what was the sizes of yours? Was there any one that was bigger than the other two, or?

 

[rayn]

Dang it! I just searched photobucket and LL both and can't find a pic of them anywhere. If I recall, they were all about the 2.5 top 3" range Don't recall one being bigger then the others. If I can track down a pic I will post it.

 

[TomatoSauceTy]

I was just stating my corals since hammers pack a powerful sting and meats cover the sand. They don't mind, shoot the lion at times sits on top of the meat corals.

 

[TomatoSauceTy]

I think the low quality of this picture makes it look prettier.

 

[rayn]

I was just stating my corals since hammers pack a powerful sting and meats cover the sand. They don't mind, shoot the lion at times sits on top of the meat corals.

Watch your corals if the preds sit on them. It really isn't a issue short term, but longer terms they can be bothered.

Awesome shot of the leaf!

 

[titi59]

My new zebra dwarf lionfish !