Hey everyone. Just got a lionfish on Friday, right after having my water checked. Shortly after introducing my new fish into the tank, I dropped in a whole silverside. The lionfish gulped it in whole. It wasn't a huge silverside, but he swallowed the whole thing nevertheless. Tried tossing in a small piece of silverside on Sat, but he didn't eat it. I noticed his abdomen was bulging, and figured he was probably still full, plus I knew the lionfish didn't need to be fed so frequently. Now it's Sunday night and I found the lionfish dead. I know the water if safe...so the only answer I can think of is that he was overfed from that one silverside. Is it possible? Has this happened to anyone else?
2007-01-21 16:49:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
That would likely be the case, the overfeeding. I don't know how big the silverside was in relation to the liofish, but it sounds as though it caused impaction within your lionfish's intestines. When you move a fish, it upsets their metabolism, and they need a few days to acclimate to their new tank. During this time, they should be fed sparingly. Feeding too much in one bite can be very detrimental to their system causing, as you saw with your fish, impatction. The bulging your saw on Saturday was likely the accumulation of toxic gasses, basically the food rotting because it was not being metabolized.
Anyway, sorry to hear about your fish :( Next time, smaller bites :)
2007-01-22 03:27:31 · answer #1 · answered by Zoe 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Aww, that's terrible. I don't know anything about raising lionfish, but I think they're such beautiful fish and I always stop at the pet store in the mall to watch them when I'm there. It seems extremely difficult to keep such an exotic fish in just the right conditions for it to thrive. So I wanted to give you my condolences.
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According to some bits on the web that I've read just now, overfeeding is a fairly common problem with lionfish. But I'm not exactly sure how or why your silverside constituted overfeeding.
http://wetwebfotos.com/talk/thread.jsp?forum=2&thread=40776&tstart=0&trange=15
http://www.marineaquariumadvice.com/lionfish-pterois-volitans.html
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/lionfdgfaqs.htm
2007-01-21 17:01:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If the silverside was frozen, then it is likely that your fish died because of being cut up by the ice crystals. That is not uncommon.
2007-01-22 02:31:52 · answer #3 · answered by geohauss 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i know with freshwater fish you can feed them things that are too large and they don't digest they just get stuck and then the fish dies. there are worms called blackworms that do this with small fish a lot so you have to cut them up -- can you cut up the silverside before feeding him or will they only take live?
2007-01-21 18:59:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it's possible to overfeed fish. That's probably what happened. They just don't know when to quit eating.
2007-01-21 17:23:31 · answer #5 · answered by tikitiki 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You shouldn't feed your fish other live fish, as you've just proven quite nicely.
2007-01-21 18:33:00 · answer #6 · answered by Jason 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
get a cat fish they hev 9 lives lol hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha ha
2007-01-22 02:59:26 · answer #7 · answered by Lacadema (Role-player) 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋
take it back and get another one
2007-01-21 16:53:04 · answer #8 · answered by Steven J 1 · 0⤊ 5⤋