Feeding A Yellow Multiband?

[CuttleKid]

Yesterday i was at my lfs and saw the most beautiful multiband. With the lighting of the stores tank i thought it was a banded, but when i got home i found out its a yellow multi band. I have a productive refugium but i want to get it to eat more. During acclimation i decided to find out if it would eat frozen mysis. It ate one and ignored ther rest. Today it ate one also but i am worried that it wont get enough to eat because its in a community reef tank. I plan on target feeding it everyday but i want it to be able to eat when i go on vacation and i have my parents feeding it. I really need some tips. I saw a food called Nutramar Ova in a DF&S catalog that said it was good for pipes and other finicky eaters. does anyone have experience with this food. Lastly, if its only eating one or two mysids a day and browsing on copepods would it be enough for him?

ps. how do you tell a male from a female?

 

[CuttleKid]

great news. I just went to fedda little mor frozen mysis and he was picking the food off the bottom. it doesnt seem to want to take food out of the water column. Right now he is munching away the food from the sand and the rocks. Hopefully this will continue?

Again how do you tell a male from a female just in case he/she does well id like to get a mate for him/her.

 

[D3monic_Urges]

They say a male would be flatter on thier underside but for the life of me I cant tell. Mine loves cyclopeeze. I have not tried the nutramar. Theres a product from h20 life called mini mysis that I want to try. They are supposed to be smaller than the hikari.

 

[CuttleKid]

Thanks D3 for the life of me i couldnt remember if the male was flatter or the female. I guess it kinda makes sense the male would be flatter because he carries the eggs. Its the hikari that hes eating but i will try the mini mysis and your recommendation of cyclopeeze.

I will give them a try

Thanks =)

 

[D3monic_Urges]

NP..I was at the shedd yesterday and they had some awesome fish. Look how fat thier yellow multibanded was

Heres a link to the rest of the pics from the aquarium http://s194.photobucket.com/albums/z79/amplexus67/Shedd/

 

[The Reef Expert]

I would consider possibly target feeding Nutramar ova and tigrio pods, Reef Nutrition tigger pods, arcti pods, and possibly some live brine or nauplii, Hope this helps If your are interested I can give you the links for where to purchase these.

 

[Octoshark]

NP..I was at the shedd yesterday and they had some awesome fish

You should watch the documentary "Window to the Sea" I believe it is called. It goes behind the scenes of many public aquariums including Shedd and Monterey Bay. Very cool.

 

[rayjay]

When I first got mine they were very small and they couldn't eat the larger particles I fed my seahorses so I started feeding them small brine shrimp.
After seeing them eat that, I bought Sally's San Fran frozen newly hatched brine and they ate that.

 

[small alien]

I had one that died from a bacterial infection. Prior to that it was eating mysis and prawn roe well. I observed the same thing as you. It preferred to take food off the substrate. In contrast to a banded I had that would only eat out of the water column. Good luck. I lost both mine and am hesitant to try again. I have a dragon face that is doing well on prepared foods after about 6 months.

 

[landlord]

I was lucky with mine. It has now been in my SPS tank for 18 months. It is as thick as a pencil and a tad over 6 inches in length. It is good that yours has developed an appetite for mysids, mine will consume them now but was kind of picky at first.