Getting queen to eat new foods

[lapoza]

I have a new addition 4-5" queen. I am having issues getting it to eat anything other than reef frenzy or frozen brine shrimp.

It eats at my live rock all day and will nip at Nori, but when I feed it won't touch frozen angel food, frozen veggie, mysis shrimp, or a couple other frozen varieties I feed. I will eat brine shrimp like crazy, and the reef frenzy I have it goes to town on that as well. The reef frenzy is pretty expensive though and I am just wondering how to get it to eat the other foods I put in or if it is just going to do what it wants. I have a 3" Juvi emperor angel and a 4" Naso that are both hogs and eat twice as much as the larger queen. It just isn't as aggressive/fast enough to get its fair share.

My only concern is I've read that brine shrimp isn't the healthiest thing to be feeding your fish, I would like to get him on healthier foods and just curious as to any tricks to diversify his diet.

Also I have been trying to feed new life spectrum and spiraling pellets and none of my fish will touch those foods

 

[Scotch_c]

Pls describe the tank that it is in.


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[lapoza]

265 gallon 84" long, Small Naso, Small Kole, Juvi Emperor angel and two clowns. Everything has been in there awhile accept the queen, it is eating but only Brine shrimp and live rock. It has completed the color change except for losing the blue stripe down its eye, which is what I was wanting, a slightly larger Juvenile Queen. I just want to diversify its diet and make sure it is healthy

 

[humaguy]

Between Reef Frenzy and Spir Brine you are good.

 

[lapoza]

Between Reef Frenzy and Spir Brine you are good.

So not to beat a dead horse but is it ok for a fish to live almost solely on brine shrimp? For some reason I think I have read its not the healthiest thing for them to eat. Eventually I'm sure it will start eating other foods, my Kole tang wouldn't touch anything at all for almost 3 months other than live rock, came in one morning and it devoured everything put in. literally a 24 hour complete change of eating habits.

 

[humaguy]

No, is not, but it is better than a fish eating nothing.
Reef Frenzy is excellent, between the two, you are good.
You can keep trying to sneak other foods in and hopefully she will learn.

What mysis did you try? try pe if you haven't already, their pellets are also killer.

 

[scooter31707]

I agree with you being good with those foods already. You can try to mix in the other foods in with the foods it eats and see how it takes it.