How to wean a Lionfish!

i hope u can make this a sticky, It sure helped me and it works great!

The first step is to teach the lionfish that you mean food! So for awhile, you will have to feed him live foods. Ghost shrimp are the first choice as they are closest nutrionally wise to the lions normal diet. So you get the fish and feed him 2 to 3 ghost shrimp one day. Wait 2 or 3 days and feed him again. (It's very important not to feed every day as this simulates a more natural way of feeding and gives their gut a chance to clear). Keep doing this until the lionfish comes to the front of the glass when you approach the tank and looks up at the surface of the water for the shrimp. Now he is ready. Stop all feedings for 5 days. Get 2 live shrimp and a piece of thawed food (silversides, clam, squid, etc). Make sure the food is good and thawed and cut into bite sized pieces (for a small lionfish).Get yourself a nice shiny spoon from your kitchen drawer. Offer him one live ghost shrimp, then follow that with a piece of thawed food on the spoon, (the flash of silver at the surface with stimulate him to strike), then another live shrimp, and the other piece of thawed (if he will take it). Then....stop all feedings for another 5 days and repeat the above only instead of 2 live shrimp, only offer one. Once you have gotten to this point, he should be willing to eat anything that hits the water! Give him prepared frozen foods for marine fish (from the LFS) or fresh seafood that you buy at the grocery store (if you do this, make sure you soak his food in a saltwater vitamin before feeding), pellets, flake, with only the occasional live feeding.
Good luck!

I found this while doing some research on google...the only thing i know is that the person who wrote this is "Barbara"

as of this morning he eats 1 live ghost shrimp and half a silverside! (BTW i also dump my silversides in Garlic Guard...all my frozen food gets mixed with it, i Heard its good practice.?

 

IME i have always found lionfish to be really greedy and will eat anything. But excellent writeup!