anybody with long term success with moorish idols
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Joao Monteiro
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lots of info here: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=607477
jnc914
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I strongly agree with the New Life Spectrum Pellets being essential to getting the Idol to eat consistently. I have a Moorish Idol I got direct from Les at Wet Pets Hawaii. He qt'd for 2 weeks before sending it to me and it was eating frozen. I put it in my QT and it refused to eat until I added the Finicky eater NLS pellets. It went crazy for them. Since being placed in my display it now eats PE mysis and the NLS pellets religiously.
I kept one successfully in a 135 SPS reef for almost 2 yrs. Ate flakes and pellets from my hand. When I started travelling for work and my maintenance declined so did the water quality and he stopped eating and died in 3 days. He was a great pet with amazing personality and beauty. Correlation doesn't equal cause, but I would take from this that you need great water quality. SPS quality.
mapleredta
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I have had mine for a month, tuesday. He was at the store for two months prior to that. They were feeding NLS pellets. I continued feeding the pellets after I put him in my tank. Well, a buddy of mine insisted I try Rods food. Well, the little ______ will no longer eat anything other than rods food. He likes to destroy a nori sheet but I think it's the fact that he is only tearing the stuff apart, not really eating it.
Outerbank
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They also like a homemade frozen food. I use a very simple 1:1 volume ratio of scallops to shrimp. Cut nori into 5-7mm squares and soak the nori for several minutes in RO water to soften the nori. Blend the scallops and shrimp into bite sized fish morsels, stir in the nori (don't blend the nori--I just pour the nori/water mixture through a strainer and then dump the nori into the blend), add some marine ZOE or similar vitamins, stir, put in ziplock bag, flatten, then freeze. This is good stuff and a very simple formula. When I feed, I trim about 3-4 mm strips and cut into small morsels the size of small to medium pellots. If done properly, you probably don't even need to trim when you prepare to feed.
mapleredta
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Very nice to know! Mine simply ignores the nori in the rods food.:hmm3:
tylorarm
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I've had one more than a year. Eats most anything and a lot. Still not fat, so they must burn a lot of calories in a day. He's grown a lot though i suppose, just not much fatter. I feed it NLS 1mm and 3mm pellets, red algae sheets, mysis, live clams, live bloodworms but biggest component is frozen O.N. Angel formula cubes. I figure that's the only thing with marine sponges in it and that's vast majority of their diet in the wild. Also, of the 2 cubes of angel formula i feed daily he eats at least one, as none of my other fish like it very much, including the angels.
Texastravis
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Not to hijack thread but been thinking about getting one BUT I quarantine all my fish first and treat with cupramine first to prevent ick. Anyone reason this finky fish wont survive cupramine treatment in a 55 gallon quarantine?
tylorarm
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I treated mine with cupramine and prazi pro prior to introducing to the display tank. The meds didn't seem to bother the MI at all and it was easier trying new foods in the smaller setting without tons of competition. My QT had very high water quality though, with a decent sized skimmer, a sump, live rock and sand, and a filter sponge. Took a bit to get the cupramine levels stable with the rock and sand but once they were it was easy.
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