Yellow spot scorpionfish

rayn · Apr 9, 2016

I loved all your fish! You had a awesome collection.

Don't worry, you'll get there again!

rayn · Apr 10, 2016

Slightly better pic today.

Lionfish Lair · Apr 10, 2016

Das it, come on out little guy.

Is the first photo yours as well, Doug?

rayn · Apr 10, 2016

Yeah, not sure why it duplicated like that.

Lionfish Lair · Apr 11, 2016

I mean your first post when they were still at the store.

revhtree · Apr 11, 2016

Sweet fish!

rayn · Apr 11, 2016

Yeah, I snapped that one before I even decided to buy the one. First ones I had seen.

Lionfish Lair said:
I mean your first post when they were still at the store.

rayn · Apr 11, 2016

AND HE EATS! Frozen at that! So sweet to see him strike at the food.

michellejy · Apr 11, 2016

I don't even have my nano up and running, and I am really tempted to do a predator tank of little ones like this now. He is fantastic.

SurlyT · Apr 11, 2016

Funny coincidence, this is one of my all-time favorite fish and I just ran across a pair of them last week after looking for almost two years. They're a relatively common fish in the wild but extremely hard to find in the aquarium trade.

Anyway, I bought both of them on the spot and put them in separate tanks; one has since vanished (possibly eaten by an anemone) but the other seems to be doing well. They're skittish feeders in my experience so if you can get them eating you're on the way. Sometimes I've had to use live ghost shrimp to trigger a feeding response.

There's a pretty good article about this fish here (you might have to create a login to view, not sure): http://www.reefhobbyistmagazine.com/magazine-tiled-q3-2007-5.html

mort · Apr 12, 2016

I've had one of these little guys for over a year now and its still as shy (won't feed if it can see you) but will take anything you put in the tank, flake, pellets, frozen...........
The only problem I have had and the reason it lives alone is that it killed a leopard puffer. I say killed as I witnessed the puffer swim near it and then saw the scorp repeatedly stab the puffer with its dorsal spines. I'm not sure if this is an isolated problem or if something else was involved (the puffer seemed in really good health) but it put me off mixing it with anything else.

michellejy · Apr 14, 2016

I was looking at the facebook page for where you picked him (her?) up, and I saw a picture. I thought you might want to see it.

https://www.facebook.com/RiversToReefs/photos/pcb.583226165165909/583223975166128/?type=3&theater

rayn · Apr 14, 2016

Nice pic @michellejy!

So we are now eating frozen mysis, frozen brine shrimp, and frozen krill all out of the water column! All thawed before feelings too.

rayn · Apr 18, 2016

Frozen mysis again tonight and he is now chasing them out of the water column and sucking them down. I'll try and get a video if I can

SurlyT · Apr 21, 2016

Mine was thin when I got him but he seems to be filling out with daily feedings. I noticed his gut looked pretty distended this week so he must have caught something on his own (maybe a shrimp) but he's still eating. Seems to like LRS Reef Frenzy a lot.