XL Pellet Food?

[Dj City]

Hello,
I have a V. Lionfish that's about as big as my hand (Larger than Trump hands). He's trained to eat frozen food. I feed him whole frozen cubes os Mysis and other frozen food.
He tries to eat flake food sometimes and even tries to eat the tiny pellet food.

Is there an XL or XXL size pellet food I could try with him? Preferably one that slowly sinks? I would love to be able to feed him pellets along with other foods.

 

[Peace River]

Do you have a specific mm size in mind? Cobalt has a predator pellet.

 

[Dj City]

Do you have a specific mm size in mind? Cobalt has a predator pellet.

I have no idea what mm size I might need.
I will look up cobalt predator pellets.

 

[Dj City]

I checked out the Cobalt food.
It "might" work. Problem is it's a floating food.
Lionfish would rather eat from mid tank rather that surface.
I was hoping for something marine based.

 

[Peace River]

@lion king @Crabs McJones - any suggestions on pellets for lionfish?

 

[Crabs McJones]

@lion king @Crabs McJones - any suggestions on pellets for lionfish?

As much as I would like to, I have no experience with lionfish. #reefsquad

 

[Dj City]

As much as I would like to, I have no experience with lionfish. #reefsquad

Any experience with large sinking pellet food for marine fish?

 

[Crabs McJones]

Any experience with large sinking pellet food for marine fish?

Just frozen thawed food

 

[Retro Reefer]

My lion would never eat anything but fresh Quick search it appears some people are having luck with these..

 

[Peace River]

My lion would never eat anything but fresh Quick search it appears some people are having luck with these..

I thought about that food as well as the Hikari Massivore because I have feed that to large FW catfish in an aquarium, but never to marine. I don't remember how fast they sink.

 

[Dj City]

I thought about that food as well as the Hikari Massivore because I have feed that to large FW catfish in an aquarium, but never to marine. I don't remember how fast they sink.

If I'm mot mistaken, they sink pretty fast.

 

[kireek]

Have you tired silverslides?

https://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=5270&ref=4395&subref=AA&cmpid=PLA-_-GS-_-B&gclid=CjwKCAiA_f3uBRAmEiwAzPuaM7QEQe2fmxc9o5RrbvgHJ6vRgHGVzeaeD-m2Q3AY_zso0RORDjo7aBoCUtoQAvD_BwE

Frozen Silversides | OmegaSea®

www.omegasea.net

 

[Dj City]

Have you tired silverslides?

https://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=5270&ref=4395&subref=AA&cmpid=PLA-_-GS-_-B&gclid=CjwKCAiA_f3uBRAmEiwAzPuaM7QEQe2fmxc9o5RrbvgHJ6vRgHGVzeaeD-m2Q3AY_zso0RORDjo7aBoCUtoQAvD_BwE

Frozen Silversides | OmegaSea®

www.omegasea.net

I'm looking for dry food.
He already eats frozen.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I have had good luck with Large size NEW ERA, Hikari Krill, Frozen krill, silversides and Extreme Aquatics pellets on Amazon and I believe Ebay

 

[kireek]

I'm looking for dry food.
He already eats frozen.

Sorry about that .Have not had my tea yet.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Sorry about that .Have not had my tea yet.

New Era and Extreme Aquatics pellets are dry formulas

 

[lion king]

I've never found it necessary to feed my lions pellets although I do gut load my live feeders with pellets. Lions would much prefer chunky bits of meaty food like shrimp, squid, silversides, salmon, scallops, etc.; chunked to size of small fish compatible to the size of the lion. You can soak their food once a week with your choice of vit supplements. Pellets missed by the lion will quickly foul your tank with increased phosphate.

 

[lion king]

Added note: If you wanted to give your lion lion an added nutritional boost you could imbed the pellets you are feeding into a chunk of meat you are feeding. Lions will not thrive or even survive long term if expected to eat pellets, flakes, mysis, and such floating in the water column like the other fish of a community tank. They need to be target fed chunky meat a couple of times a week until you see a nice bulge in their belly.

 

[Dj City]

Thank you

What I do and what I've done is to feed him whole frozen cubes of food. Mysis shrimp, Brine shrimp, Carnivore food and so forth. He eats the whole cube. The rest of the tank get to eat what comes out his gills.
I also feed him shrimp, krill, scallops and the like (Chunky, Meaty food).

I want to include dry food into his diet especially for when I'm out of town.

 

[lion king]

Feeding whole frozen cubes is not a good way to feed him and a lion is not a fish to expect to eat from a auto feeder or survive on dry food.