Small snowflake eel with medium voltain lionfish?

[andrewkw]

I have a 4-5" Voltain and I planned on keeping him alone, however I ended up with a small maybe 8" snowflake eel. The eel is still in QT and could in theory go in my reef tank as the smallest fish I have is a rather large 12 year old clown fish. I currently don't have any shrimp in the reef tank which I was planning on adding back in but obviously the eel would cancel that out.

I see there are several people keeping snowflakes and lions together but the small size of this eel has me a little worried. I could always keep him in my reef then move him in a year or 2 over to the lion tank but catching him may be problematic unless he chooses the pvc tube as a home vs rockwork.

 

[s550]

my lfs keeps a steady supply of lions and eels together. All sizes! I'd like to think they have mad mutual respect for one another lol not sure how much this helps haha

 

[Txdragonslayer]

Although I have seen larger moray eels pray upon lions, but I think u should be fine

 

[andrewkw]

I am not worried about the eel bugging the Lion, I am worried about the Lion eating the eel.

 

[lion king]

There's no problem there, either way. The lion has to get something that can fit in his mouth all at once, in one slurp. Like a shrimp will be guaranteed to be lunch.

 

[Dalmatia]

Your ok. If anything I'd be worried that the lion would eat the clown fish, but it never happened with mine.
Then again it depends on what clown fish you own