How to keep "MINI LIONFISH" (Dendrochirus brachypterus) in reef aquariums

In this video you will learn something about keeping Short-spined Scorpionfish (Dendrochirus brachypterus) in the aquarium especially for reef tanks. I'll show you my aquascape and the most important setup.
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This new channel offers you the opportunity to collect ideas around the topic of sea water aquariums. It shows the spatial and technical possibilities to set up your reef tank at home in the living room, bedroom or office.
For this we travel through Europe to capture the perfect pictures for you.
So please enjoy and best regards
Tobias Neyer

[@stianandreassen3903]

Swim Shady... I laughed 🤣

[@Bam-Bam1]

I picked up one a few weeks ago after watching one of your videos and yes these fishes are like dogs underwater 🤣

[@seafriendlyreef]

Hahaha how great is that :DD love to hear that! I wish you good luck with your new animals ;)

[@senthilkumarp3347]

Thanks for sharing, good info brother

[@emmanuelV37]

This is awesome! Such an intriguing fish! Also love his name and your tank too! Awesome video!

[@seafriendlyreef]

Awesome! Than you for that great feedback :)

[@karthikesvarig5703]

Just awesome dude

[@karthikesvarig5703]

Where is your copper band butterfly fish Toby?

[@seafriendlyreef]

Thank you so much! yes that is a very sad story .. at the beginning frozen food was no problem for it and from one day to the next it stopped eating .. unfortunately this has happened to me for the third time in the last 8 years. I won't buy any of these animals anymore :(

[@akshayvetrivelkumar6088]

@@seafriendlyreef K

[@homeschooledchimp905]

Greetings from Miami, FL, USA! New subscriber. Love your videos. Very informative and great "eye candy" as well. Wanted a dwarf lionfish for a long time but realize my tank is too small.

[@ultraluxeest1991]

Awesome! Subbed, greetings from England!

[@seafriendlyreef]

Nice thank you so much!

[@kevinw7044]

Your aquarium is looking great and the lion fish certainly has character.

[@seafriendlyreef]

Thanks a lot Kevin! :D

[@koaleighhomestead2606]

Loved the video and know how awesome these fish are as we've had one for 7 months now. We got our dwarf fuzzy lionfish weaned off live food in about a week, he now eats frozen silverside fish, frozen raw shrimp, frozen krill, and Hikari carnivore pellets. We also have a dwarf zebra lionfish living in the same tank as him which we've now had for 6 months. She only took 4 days to wean onto frozen food and eats all the same food except the carnivore pellets. We finally bought a fu manchu lionfish 5 weeks ago that we have in a quarantine tank and have now successfully got it to start eating frozen krill and frozen silverside, he'll soon be introduced into the tank with the other 2 lionfish. These are the 3 dwarf lionfish we wanted for this 55 gallon tank, next will be getting our 125 gallon aquarium setup so we can get a volitan lionfish again.

[@DesertRider760]

When you fed it frozen/thawed food. What did you use to feed it?

[@koaleighhomestead2606]

@@DesertRider760 they took the food directly from our fingers

[@DesertRider760]

@@koaleighhomestead2606 Wow! When you did feed him, was it even 3 days? And when you offered frozen food? How often was that? I read you want to offer frozen in between? Thank you

[@koaleighhomestead2606]

@@DesertRider760 our lionfish got fed every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Once weaned off live food I didn’t feed them live food any more and gave them something different each day, eg: silverside on Monday, Hikari Carnivore pellets on Wednesday, and frozen thawed shrimp on Friday. Once they got used to this routine there was no need to feed live food any more.

[@juanllano8672]

Hi, friend!! Great fish 👊🐠🇲🇽 a great greeting from Mexico !!

[@seafriendlyreef]

Thank you brother! Wish you all the best to Mexico :D

[@gentlemanreefer6105]

I had a Pterois Volitans back in 1991 when living in Zurich. After two years he ended up in Zurich's Zoo... Fantastic fish. Congratulations

[@seafriendlyreef]

Thank you so much for that gerat comment :)

[@gentlemanreefer6105]

@@seafriendlyreef actually I didn't tell you why... he ate my girlfriend's gramma loreto... ;)

[@captivebredcanada]

I had one for years, a bright red one. I was stung and it actually wasn't bad. I freaked out and ran hot water under my hand for several minutes. For me it was similar to a bee sting. As you said though if you are allergic it could kill you. The only way to know for sure is to get stung... I agree with you about tank mates that were there before him. I had smallish clownfish and a female mandarin and there were no issues. The only fish mine ever ate was a wrasse bigger then the mandarin but the wrasse was added after him and I think he got him while the wrasse was getting comfortable.

[@seafriendlyreef]

You are absolutely right! There're shrimps in the tank also and the lionfish never touch them because they were in before :D

[@ryanmoeller3308]

GREAT video my friend!! Swim Shady just wants his chin scratched.. LOL.. He's pretty awesome looking!! I hope thing's work out really well with your new fish! I can't wait to see more video's from ya! Hopefully I can make it to Germany someday and we can check out some awesome reef tanks!! Or if you make it here to the USA, I'm 2 1/2 east of San Diego. It'd be awesome to show ya around! 🤙🤙

[@seafriendlyreef]

Thank you very much for these words Ryan! Would be awesome ;) I wish you a great weekend my friend

[@KaltrinaDemiri]

So cute, I want one haha

[@stacesendra]

Hey! I looked up dwarf lion fish care and this came up. And I’m glad it did! May I ask where’d you get your lion fish? I can’t find any anywhere

[@DeezNuts-hf2xm]

They are pretty rare, i had to reserve mine because they usually arrive dead.

[@V_Rhenthys]

I love lionfishes. They are so beatiful and curious

[@morrisheinersz2005]

LOL 'Swim Shady'

[@fabrizioabbatepaolo2078]

the tridacna is really good there ... it has its right importance

[@seafriendlyreef]

Thank you so much Fabrizio! :D

[@malawibuntbarschplasidochr6357]

Sehr geil

[@seafriendlyreef]

Danke dir!!

[@richwright2280]

Loving the video think you should take up the job with BRS 😉

[@seafriendlyreef]

Thank you brother! :D Haha yes I thought about your last message :D wish you a great weekend brother!

[@slorp97xx87]

I want to have it! 0:14 so sweet 🥺

[@seafriendlyreef]

Yess these eyes haha

[@JohnSmith-pw1gf]

I just wanna point out that this species of lionfish in particular can actually be quite aggressive towards other lionfish. Especially the males. They also love to jump! Should seriously consider getting a lid on that tank.

[@KD_86]

Hallo, Ich hab ihr letzten auch einen geholt, ein super schönes Tier. Wie hast du ihn so hinbekommen mit dem Futter. Meiner nimmt nur lebende futtergarnele. Gruß Daniel

[@johnbrand1893]

Hi Toby 👋 I seen a program on the tv 📺 years ago about lion fish, it’s owner got stung bad on her hand, and it swelled up to just over twice the size, she was in excruciating pain, it was gruesome to see. You can never take your eye off them ever if you put your hands in the tank. Very brave choice of fish, good luck mate. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@seafriendlyreef]

Thank you for that feedback John! :D Yess... I hope it will never sting me :(( I wish you a great weekend my friend :)

[@loui2457]

Hola !

[@damiankrawczuk87]

die ist echt geil

[@kobragaiden7240]

Can I keep one with a box fish?

[@gabrieltrujillo2719]

Love the name swim shady! Lol! Does he rap?! I had dwarf lion but unfortunately he died. I couldn't train him to eat anything but live ghost shrimp. Was yours eating frozen already or did you have to train?

[@seafriendlyreef]

Thank you Gabriel! :D No you are right.. I have to train him too.. First I thought he will die because he wanted not to eat but about 7 days later he startet eating live food and then frozen :D

[@Kriegi93]

Hey Tobi, ich mag deine Videos sehr 😊👍🏼 Kannst du mir verraten wie der Song aus deinem Intro heißt? :) Shazam konnte mir leider nicht weiterhelfen 😅

[@seafriendlyreef]

Vielen lieben Dank! :D Aber natürlich: Body And Attitude - DJ Freedem schöne Wochenende ;)

[@Kriegi93]

@@seafriendlyreef Dankeschön! :) Wünsch ich dir auch 😁

[@danielg4317]

Geiler Name, toller Fisch. Okay ...du bist auch ganz in Ordnung

[@seafriendlyreef]

Sehr nett ahaha

[@djjdlukasmiles9090]

Mit der Hand füttern ist echt mutig. Der ist zwar klein, aber er besitzt einst der stärksten Gifte im Fischreich, und das ist Batrachotoxin. Das selbe Gift haben die großen Feuerfische wie Pterois volitans Steinfische, sowie Drachenköpfe. Ich würde denn nur mit Pinzette füttern 😵😵😵

[@semaphor3]

My lion fish always decides to come perch on my arm when working in the tank, spits at me if I don't feed it. My fu manchu is pretty skittish and still hides from me.

[@seafriendlyreef]

Haha thanks a lot for that feedback! :D

[@garryharrington8255]

A MATE OF MINE GOT STUNG BY A LOIN FISH?HE DIED BEFORE .. HE HAD TIME TO PHONE FOR HELP?? I STILL LOVE THIS FISH? THANKS

[@Morpheus_input]

Can go with invertebrates?

[@seafriendlyreef]

difficult, mine do not touch them if they are in the tank before but maybe one day he will eat them

[@jodum145]

Is there any “clean-up” crew members he wouldn’t touch? Certain size snails and hermit crabs, maybe?

[@jamiesmith27]

i just got one but hasn't eaten yet? day 4 hopefully he will soon :)

[@seafriendlyreef]

I hope it survived :/

[@jamiesmith27]

@@seafriendlyreef yes thanks found shop that sold River shrimp and he loves them so eating daily now😀

[@Orlandofnav5.0]

Can they stay with clownfish ?

[@seafriendlyreef]

Yes if the clowns are big enough :)

[@usafq-]

I usto believe that lionfish didn’t mess with old tank mates but just recently my fumanchu lionfish has slowly but surely pick off each fish in the tank at night unfortunately I have to get rid of him

[@sallysbananenrepublik3740]

300l are enough, the american/international standard is 50 gallon, which is 189l. Could you ceep this little guy with sea stars and urchins?

[@mrdobalina8006]

Who cut your hair, Ray Charles?

[@martyharris9543]

Beautiful fish. But just like triggers I could never consider them because I couldn't handle that they were eating live fish. Does anybody know if you can feed them anything frozen or does it have to be live? Because I would love to get one

[@zafishguy5166]

You absolutely can teach them to teat frozen lancefish. Plus triggers have 0 need for fish meat. Most triggers can be fine on frozen shrimp diets. Look into blue throated triggerfish.

[@martyharris9543]

@@zafishguy5166 thanks

[@ivanmatthew4755]

make a mandarin nano tank!!!

[@seafriendlyreef]

Also great idea!

[@springbreaker1977]

Awwwww "MR swim shady" ❤️ he looks adorable as you Toby, the way you are looking for him..... where are you maaaaan!!! makes me laugh , it was so sweet. Definitely it’s a very cute fish with great personality. I want to tell you something, from the Mexican Caribbean Sea to Miami reefs the lion fish is now a plague out of control its a big depredator and is killing all the fish and invertebrates in this huge area. By now the us guverment have decided to kill all of them for their eradication that’s why the divers literally are hunting thousands of them. In the Mexican restaurants along the Caribbean it’s a new exotic dish, they learned to clean carefully and cook this fish in different ways. If you come to Mexico you must to try it

[@seafriendlyreef]

Thank you so much for that very interesting feedback!! :D I heard a lot about the lionfish plague.. it is horrible what that fish does to the aqua culture in this areas :/ How does it taste? :P I wish you a great weekend Jorge :)

[@springbreaker1977]

@@seafriendlyreef It taste well, very soft meat. The dish price is around €10. I wish you a very nice weekend too

[@yasserwaryaghli4575]

you are playing with a colorful fire , be safe

[@joshgroenewald7454]

It's such a shame that People in Florida set them free in the sea now they are plagued by them

[@user-bv4im3vr8m]

I never keep lionfish because it eats my doctor shrimp😰