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Originally posted by capn_hylinur
...alot of people here feed live gold fish to their lion fish and predators. I was thinking of using very small minnows---would they contain enough nutrition for marine fish.
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I kept a lion fish for 3 years (before trading him in) on converted Mollies - they can easily be acclimated to salt water conditions, (so they live on until the predators do catch them), they are "smooth", so you don't end up with "scale snow", which with lions is a bit of a problem as they "scale" the minnows and gold fish as they suck them down and as an added bonus, mollies breed like mad. I would "gut load" the mollies with vitamin treated food just before dropping them in the lion's tank.
Not really sure about the nutritional content of mollies (or the others), but the gut loaded food seemed to work well...