red lion fish

**glarior** · 12-12-2012, 03:43 PM

Years ago I remember seeing a red lion fish and thought it was awesome. Now I want one. However, I don't know what kind it was... any suggestions? I looked at liveaquariua and the ones they have don't remind me of what I saw. It looked like a typical Volitan Lionfish but it was red.

Do you know what I saw?

**jeffs99dime** · 12-12-2012, 03:54 PM

This guy ?:
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...279&pcatid=279
Or?:
http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/fish...-russelli.html

**glarior** · 12-12-2012, 04:11 PM

http://www.reefs2go.com/product/F-MI...-Lionfish.html

It looks just like the first link you have but its red like the link above.

Maybe it was a dwarf but I don't remember it being one.

**Honey Badger 1** · 12-12-2012, 04:15 PM

How about a pterois miles?

http://www.colourbox.com/image/lionf...-image-2252056

Or a pterois anntnnata?

http://www.scuba-equipment-usa.com/m...ennata%29.html

**Cliff** · 12-12-2012, 05:15 PM

I do believe Mommy1 nailed it. They are cool looking fish

With large tanks like yours, have you considers some of full sized lionfish ? Like a black Volitan or maybe a Russels ?

**glarior** · 12-14-2012, 04:34 PM

That does look like it.

@cliff - I had a common lion fish but it died a while back. I had it for 2-3 years and one day just became a picky eater. I eventually isolated him and bought a lot of ghost shrimp. Once it stopped eathing those I finally had to put it to sleep. It was sad.....

anyways, I just kept thinking about the red one's. I have all of next year to decide