AMBUSHPREDATOR
03-26-2010, 09:14 AM
When I was thirteen I had a marine tank with a bunch of the standard fare for the time. One of the fish I purchased first was a red lionfish, they were often used as your first fish to cycle your tank when it was new.
To make a long story short after 3 years it ended up being about eight inches long and the only fish in the tank. At that time I had a paper route and the 30 dollars or so that I made per week was getting cut in half by the voracious appetite of my buddy. He'd eat $15 worth of feeders per week. About 150 feeders-sick !
I finally had had enough of the cost and not knowing what to do with him called the Staten Island zoo because I knew they had some large tanks. The person I got on the phone said theirs had jumped out the week before and said when they come to get him , if he's healthy they'll take him.
Two hours later they showed up with a five gallon bucket netted him , thanked me and were gone.
My father took my sons to the zoo last year and there was a huge lionfish in the tank, and a plaque that read lionfish - donated by citizen
Is it possible that that could be my fish, it would have been about thirty two years old.
I know it's highly unlikely but any info would be appreciated.
To make a long story short after 3 years it ended up being about eight inches long and the only fish in the tank. At that time I had a paper route and the 30 dollars or so that I made per week was getting cut in half by the voracious appetite of my buddy. He'd eat $15 worth of feeders per week. About 150 feeders-sick !
I finally had had enough of the cost and not knowing what to do with him called the Staten Island zoo because I knew they had some large tanks. The person I got on the phone said theirs had jumped out the week before and said when they come to get him , if he's healthy they'll take him.
Two hours later they showed up with a five gallon bucket netted him , thanked me and were gone.
My father took my sons to the zoo last year and there was a huge lionfish in the tank, and a plaque that read lionfish - donated by citizen
Is it possible that that could be my fish, it would have been about thirty two years old.
I know it's highly unlikely but any info would be appreciated.