Banghaii not eating...do I worry?

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Fish_King_25

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I bought my Banghaii Cardinal yesterday, and tried feeding both formula two flake and formula one pellet and all he has done has take it in, and spit it right back out...only been a day, but what should I do?

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Banggai tend not to take to prepared foods like flake or pellet, and Formula 2 is an herbivore food. They like meaty foods, so offer some mysis. I also offer mine small chunks of shrimp or fish whenever I feed my anemones, which they love.
 
Will be picking up some mysis tomorrow after work.. hoping to report back some good news to you guys

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My two only eat frozen mysis shrimp. No pellets or flakes.

Make sure when you get frozen mysis you get rid of the water the shrimp is in its gross. Dethaw rinse away water do not put it in your tank. It will up your nitrates and phosphates if not. No one tells you this about mysis.

I dethaw all the blocks strain the shrimp and fill an ice cube tray with ro/di and the cleaned mysis and then you get good shrimp everyday and don't have to worry about.
 
I feed mine live blood worm and they go crazy for it. If not try mysis. But I had the best luck with live blood worm.
 
kevin32 said:
I feed mine live blood worm and they go crazy for it. If not try mysis. But I had the best luck with live blood worm.
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Mysis as well here. Will have to try the blood worms. Where do you get them live? I only see frozen around here.


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ianjirka said:
Mysis as well here. Will have to try the blood worms. Where do you get them live? I only see frozen around here.


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My local fish store sell live blood worm for $1 a scoop. One scoop usually last me about a week.
 
It's pretty normal for fish to not eat right away, but the right food helps,lol. You like your new cardinal? Maybe should get it a buddy, they tend to like small groups.
 
Just like the others have said. Mine only ate frozen brine or mysis for the first year or so. He now will eat flakes, but my previous one never did. Good luck with him.
 
It took me years to finally get my bangai to eat pellets but only from the water surface for some reason. He has no interest to sinking pellets.
 
Same as above. I'll add my own experience with my Bangai. I bought it and it wouldn't eat even the frozen mysis shrimp I was feeding everyone else. It went 4 days without eating. So, I went to the LFS where I got it and asked what they were feeding it. He said frozen brine shrimp. I bought some brine shrimp, mixed it with the mysid and, presto changeo, it started to eat. Been eating whatever frozen I give it ever since. Maybe find out what they were feeding it at the pet store and try that to start.

And, no, they won't eat flake/pellet food. Mine mouths it and spits it out and looks at me with contempt.
 
Scizzle said:
Make sure when you get frozen mysis you get rid of the water the shrimp is in its gross. Dethaw rinse away water do not put it in your tank. It will up your nitrates and phosphates if not. No one tells you this about mysis.
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I am by means no expert, but Randy has just written an article on this very subject. It seems rinsing is not really necessary.

More here
 
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Thanks so much to everyone here for all their input, I am going to the LFS to bring my nasty velvet damsel back today, and i will be buying some mysis to try tonight after work. Thanks everyone!

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