WEIRD fish!

[Mudfish]

They are all really beautiful. That is an amazing collection.

[Giannis86]

Pterois mombassae & volitans are my favorite from your pics.

Amazing fish! Its really breathtaking to see pics of something different than clowns and tangs once in a while

[scorpkeeper]

would a dwarf be happy in a 12g biocube?

 

about as small as i'd go for an adult dwarf lion is 30 gal, except for the fu manchu, which you could keep in a 25 gal. as Renee mentioned, lions, like many predators will eat anything that fits into their mouths (crustaceans, fish). however, if they can't swallow it they are not aggressive at all, and are fine with corals, snails, and hermits.

 

just to show you how big some of these fishes' mouths can be...

 

 

 

 

 

and just for jeremai:

 

 

 

BTW, all of the photos in this thread were taken by seahorsedreams (Renee).

Edited June 30, 2010 by scorpkeeper

[Nathans_Reef]

On 6/29/2010 at 10:43 PM, scorpkeeper said:

pix are worth 1000 words (yes, these are our own fish):

 

Rhinopias frondosa (weedy scorpionfish)

 

 

Inimicus dactyliophorus (sea goblin/devilfish)

 

 

Choridactylus multibarbus (bearded ghoul)

 

 

I. japonicus (pop-eyed sea goblin) & Scorpaena brasiliensis (red barbfish)

 

 

shall i go on? this barely scratches the surface of some 19 specimens of oddball venomous fish we keep. i guess you can tell i love to share!

Those fish are amazing, im am currently setting up a 40 gallon Dwarf Lionfish tank. Do you know if any of these fish can live with dwarf lions in a 40 gallon?

[Nathans_Reef]

On 6/30/2010 at 4:56 AM, scorpkeeper said:

 

you could always appeal to her sense of beauty:

 

Pterois mombassae (Mombasa lionfish):

 

 

Dendrochirus brachypterus (fuzzy dwarf lionfish):

 

 

the temperate water Parapterois heteratura (bluefin/blackfoot lionfish):

 

 

D. biocellatus (fu manchu lionfish):

 

Do you think that a Fu manchu could live with clownfish?