angels and pellet only

[Allmost]

Hello,
so my bandit only takes pellet foods. loves omega one.

what are your opinions on keeping him just on pellet food ?

what I do now is soak pellets in selcon or other vitamines let them dry over night and feed during the day once dried.

I have had most of my other angels eat only pellets and nori with occasional feeding of mysis and they do fine, but just wanted to get everyone elses opinion on this too. are pellets enough ?

[been QTing him for over a month and want to introduce him to my reef this weekend, but dunno if I should try to train him more with mysis or not ... he prefers pellets and I fill him up with it all day feeding pellets so at night he has almost no interest in other foods lol]

 

[humaguy]

That is intersting...
I feed mainly frozen and they get pellets and nori a couple times a week...
I know many feed them only frozen, no dry at all...pretty sure Copps takes that route and that speaks volumes...
If the Bandit was mine I'd be thrilled she was eating... but I would want to get her eating pe mysis...
How big is she?

 

[Allmost]

Thanks shes about 3-4 inch. Has grown in the last month as well. But u are right about copps feeding only frozen.

Im gonna order some of rogers food, see if that makes a difference. And starting tomorrow, im gonna feed her only pe mysis during the day and take the auto pellet feeder off. See if she would take more. She does eat one piece when i feed her. But thats all ! Kinda interesting how she ignores it after having oone piece lol but when i give her pellets after she eats so cant be full and not hungry anymore. Ive waited a month, so another week in qt wont hurt lol

 

[Allmost]

Thanks shes about 3-4 inch. Has grown in the last month as well. But u are right about copps feeding only frozen.

Im gonna order some of rogers food, see if that makes a difference. And starting tomorrow, im gonna feed her only pe mysis during the day and take the auto pellet feeder off. See if she would take more. She does eat one piece when i feed her. But thats all ! Kinda interesting how she ignores it after having oone piece lol but when i give her pellets after she eats so cant be full and not hungry anymore. Ive waited a month, so another week in qt wont hurt lol

 

[Prestigious]

I feed my 300gallon (couple angels) and all past tanks NLS Thera-A sinking pellets only. That is all I feed, all I ever will feed, no vitamin, no nothing. IMO I have some very fat, healthy, colorful fish. I will probably never use another fish food again.

Maybe that is bad advice but I have had some great results.

 

[geaux xman]

I have seen some fish that are just starting to feed, prefer different mysis/pe mysis sizes, so try both. Maybe try brine shrimp too to start.

I would feed my fish pellets only and mysis just occasionally, but I have 2 fish(1 tang/1 angel) in my tank that wont touch pellets. So I do pellets x3/day and mysis/pe mysis 1-2x/day.

I have NEVER seen an angelfish that didnt eat frozens, so I think its just a matter of time your bandit will start eating it.

 

[michael_cb_125]

Have you tried hikari mysis? PE mysis are very large and some fish can be intimidated by these larger food stuffs.

The fact that she is eating is great news, I'm sure she will take to fresh foods shortly.
That said, my bandits prefer pellets over mysis as well...

~Michael

 

[michael_cb_125]

Have you tried hikari mysis? PE mysis are very large and some fish can be intimidated by these larger food stuffs.

The fact that she is eating is great news, I'm sure she will take to fresh foods shortly.
That said, my bandits prefer pellets over mysis as well...

~Michael

 

[runintoluck]

My bandit is the same. He/she only eats NLS pellets and the only other thing it'll touch is angel formula. I have had it for over a year now with no issues so far has gotten fatter and a little bigger. I do dose vitamins. I see it picking on sponges that grow on my rock.

 

[Yurivd]

My bandit also started with pellets but now eats angel formula and mysis ( the bandit like mysis the most )

 

[Amon]

I feed my 300gallon (couple angels) and all past tanks NLS Thera-A sinking pellets only.

Interesting. Nice to hear that your fishes are doing so well by eating primarily only NLS.

I switched to NLS when my P. imperator suffered from very serious swimming bladder issues. It's bladder got so bad - and I so desperate that I even punctured it's swimming bladder with a needle but that helped only for a week or so. After that I decided that the actual problem was nutritional based and went to a LFS to get a food that had the highest fiber concentration I could find. (Fibers are good for human digestive system so why not for fishes too! ) That's how I ended up selecting the NLS pellets. I also fed green peas few times but hard to say if they had any impact.

Since switching from Omega One and/or Ocean Nutrition weggie flakes to NLS pellets and kept from feeding too much frozen mysis & artemia cubes the P. imperator has been well. Occasionally I still feel that the fish isn't swimming 100% OK but by feeding more NLS the fish seems to stay in good health.

My P. imperator is about 5 years old. I got it as a quite small juvenile and nowadays it's approx 7 inches. It went through it's juv to adult change by eating Fauna Marin Ultra health pellets but I feel it's nutritional needs have changed as it has gotten older. ... so I'm still looking for a better food for it but at the moment NLS seems to be at least good enough. Or may be NLS only diet is adequate as your success with your fishes is showing. Of course tank conditions and the nutrition provided by the algae and sponges grown in the tank are playing their parts too.

 

[rssjsb]

I have a potter's that will only eat NLS pellets, aside from grazing on algae. I feed the tank frozen every morning and all of my other fish eat it, but he will just ignore it and wait for the autofeeder. He's a hulk.