feeding clown goby?

[squishifishi]

I bought some frozen mysis shrimp to feed my brand new clown goby and he won't eat it. I cut the shrimplets up into smaller pieces but he will bite it then spit it back out. I tried feeding him frozen bloodworms next and he likes it. he eats it up, but is it ok to feed him bloodworms?
any suggestions?
thanks!

 

[SantaMonica]

Don't they nibble on corals? Maybe he is full.

 

[squishifishi]

i don't have the type of coral they nibble on. The focus of this tank is mushrooms and i also have one galaxy coral. He gobbles the bloodworms right up, just not the mysis!
will bw be ok for hismain diet? i think they're normaly used in freshwater fish.

 

[cherubfish pair]

Don't they nibble on corals? Maybe he is full.

Yeah, I heard they eat SPS. Does anyone know if this is true?

 

[cherubfish pair]

i don't have the type of coral they nibble on. The focus of this tank is mushrooms and i also have one galaxy coral. He gobbles the bloodworms right up, just not the mysis!
will bw be ok for hismain diet? i think they're normaly used in freshwater fish.

I bought a pack of frozen bloodworm cubes and tried them a couple of times now. They seem to get half the worm in their mouth and spit it out, doing this many times in a row before they finally eat it. I don't know if they are choking on it or chewing them up because they might be kind of tough. Whatever the fish are doing to the bloodworms I don't know but I have to try them many more times before I decide if I want to use them long term.

I think they are a freshwater animal but they should be okay to feed to our saltwater fish and invertebrates.

 

[rssjsb]

I avoid bloodworms. They may be ok on occasion, but I think they're hard to digest. They're not really worms at all, but insect larvae with a hard little endoskeleton.

Have you tried nutramar ova or cyclopeeze?

 

[Dmorty217]

I fed mine brine, he ate it up

 

[squishifishi]

I avoid bloodworms. They may be ok on occasion, but I think they're hard to digest. They're not really worms at all, but insect larvae with a hard little endoskeleton.
Have you tried nutramar ova or cyclopeeze?

Mysis has a little hard exoskeleton too...
I really wanted to do cyclopeeze, but they don't sell it here.
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the bloodworms I have come in a bag so it's one huge, solid, chunk of worms. To get it off, i just shave some off with a knife so my worms are always in small pieces. They just eats it in one gulp! Maybe you could try that when you feed your fish.
THANKS!

 

[Paul B]

I have a few clown gobies and have been keeping them over 30 years. Throw the bloodworms out as they are insect larval and not worms. Mine eat live blackworms as all my fish do, I also feed them small pieces of clams. They don't nibble coral or hurt anything. I have a tank full of coral. They are not real crazy about mysis but will eat small pieces.

 

[squishifishi]

What's wrong with feeding fish insect larvae?

 

[Paul B]

Insect larvae doesn't have the oils in it that fish need. It will never get them into breeding condition but it will keep them alive. It will also not do anything to keep their immune system working at peak efficiency so your fish will always be suseptable to diseases. If that is all you want, then you can feed that.

 

[Mranderson]

brine? my citron doesnt eat mysis yet but he jumps for brine. its smaller and manageable.

 

[rssjsb]

Frozen brine has no nutritional value. You can use it to entice fish to eat because fish like it, but once they're taking it from the water column, you really have to switch them to something more nutritious like mysis.

 

[cherubfish pair]

What's the difference between mysis and mysid?

 

[Paul B]

Mysis is a bunch of mysid. Like octopus and octopi.

 

[squishifishi]

ok, thanks guys!