Curious, how many of you have lion fish?
Do you ever stick your hand in the tank or do you use "tongs" or heavy/thick gloves when working in the tank?
I spaced off tonight (drinking some crown royal) and went to move a couple of rocks around and felt something on the top of my hand. I'm more or less used to the cleaner shrimp crawling on my hands and up my arm but totally forgot about the dwarf lion I added a week ago.
I look down through the top of the tank wondering which type of shrimp it was and see it's the dwarf lion sitting on the top of my hand. I initially freeze and think of all the horrow stories I've heard of people getting stung by them so I don't move. Nothing happens. After a couple of minutes I very, very slowly start to move my hand back and forth across the tank hoping he'll get off. Finally he does.
After another drink (bad) I can't help but wonder if this was a fluke or not so I put my hand on top a rock and the dwarf lion makes his way over to my hand after a couple of minutes and again perches on it. I don't make any sudden movements but again can move my hand around the tank and he doesn't budge. Finally I bend my wrist after a few minutes and lift my hand out of the water and he goes on his merry way.
Am I playing with fire or do I have a "gentle" lion? Are they normally like this? I've never had a lion before so I have nothing to go on.
Anyone here ever been stung by one? I've read everything from "slightly worse then a bee sting" to "100 times worse then a bee sting". If you've ever been stung by one, how bad was it?
Carlo
Do you ever stick your hand in the tank or do you use "tongs" or heavy/thick gloves when working in the tank?
I spaced off tonight (drinking some crown royal) and went to move a couple of rocks around and felt something on the top of my hand. I'm more or less used to the cleaner shrimp crawling on my hands and up my arm but totally forgot about the dwarf lion I added a week ago.
I look down through the top of the tank wondering which type of shrimp it was and see it's the dwarf lion sitting on the top of my hand. I initially freeze and think of all the horrow stories I've heard of people getting stung by them so I don't move. Nothing happens. After a couple of minutes I very, very slowly start to move my hand back and forth across the tank hoping he'll get off. Finally he does.
After another drink (bad) I can't help but wonder if this was a fluke or not so I put my hand on top a rock and the dwarf lion makes his way over to my hand after a couple of minutes and again perches on it. I don't make any sudden movements but again can move my hand around the tank and he doesn't budge. Finally I bend my wrist after a few minutes and lift my hand out of the water and he goes on his merry way.
Am I playing with fire or do I have a "gentle" lion? Are they normally like this? I've never had a lion before so I have nothing to go on.
Anyone here ever been stung by one? I've read everything from "slightly worse then a bee sting" to "100 times worse then a bee sting". If you've ever been stung by one, how bad was it?
Carlo