Lionfish in fresh water?
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The thing is, i'm sure that many saltwater fish could be "weaned" onto freshwater with some sort of electrolyte treatment. The problem is, i'd wager a bet that those saltwater come freshwater fish will have tons of health concerns and won't live out their full potential age span.
I can imagine a scenario in which the only lion fish that are to enter the hobby in Florida would be those that are locally collected,after the stock that the shops and suppliers have runs out.So there would still be a supply of them.I have kept saltwater fish in the past and I've had a few volitans in my tanks so I don't really believe in trying to acclimatize saltwater fish to fresh.If I want to go back to salt I'll do that but as far as the invasive lion fish go I wouldn't be opposed to trying the experiment.
I believe there was a post on MFK recently about a ban on lionfish in FL. I don't remember the specifics of it but I think there is a ban in place for importing lion fish.
I agree I also don't condone acclimatizing any SW fish to FW or the other way around. I do think it is an interesting experiment though.
Almost all sw fish can be weaned to very light brackish water. There is a technique to get rid of marine ich called hyposalinity which requires you to slowly drop the salinity from 1.024 all the way down to 1.008. I've used this technique before and it works pretty well but the fish are only kept at that salinity for about 2 months max then it's raised back up. As for long term, I don't believe it would work out so well for majority of marine fish.
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I sure am inclined to test this.
The difficult part will be the PH, considering my water and my set ups....
I can do a tanganikan tank for a lionfish, though....just need some heavy buffer.
The difficult part will be the PH, considering my water and my set ups....
I can do a tanganikan tank for a lionfish, though....just need some heavy buffer.
