How to train Dragonet to eat frozen foods
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ThRoewer
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You need to start with live ones. Once it eats those well you can start offering frozen an see if it takes those. Though brine shrimp are not a good food to sustain any fish on. For that you need something like Mysis.
BTW, from what I can see of that tank it seems to be way too sterile. Without some live rock or macro algae this tank is completely unfit to sustain dragonets. I would suggest to order a few macro algae from an online place like LiveAquaria, Blue Zoo, Gulf Coast Ecosystems,... primarily to get some pods into the tank. The pods you mostly want a munnid isopods, tropical reef mysids and amphipods.
BTW, from what I can see of that tank it seems to be way too sterile. Without some live rock or macro algae this tank is completely unfit to sustain dragonets. I would suggest to order a few macro algae from an online place like LiveAquaria, Blue Zoo, Gulf Coast Ecosystems,... primarily to get some pods into the tank. The pods you mostly want a munnid isopods, tropical reef mysids and amphipods.
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You could buy a couple of pieces of nasty, algae covered LR--it will surely have pods on it.
And add a couple of bottles of live pods every other day until it is trained. Otherwise, a fish like this needs a mature(>1yr old) tank that's at least 120g to thrive--and not more than 1 other pod eater.
You could buy a couple of pieces of nasty, algae covered LR--it will surely have pods on it.
And add a couple of bottles of live pods every other day until it is trained. Otherwise, a fish like this needs a mature(>1yr old) tank that's at least 120g to thrive--and not more than 1 other pod eater.
ThRoewer
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I added my mandarins 2 weeks after I set up my 18" cube tank and a bit later a bluestripe pipefish male (the female followed several months later). a year and a half later all these are still alive and well and spawning, but the mandarins moved to my new 100 gallon tank about 6 months ago.
I started my 18" cube with a good deal of fresh live rock and also added a bottle of tigger pods the day I filled the tank. After one week the tank was crawling with pods all over.
So it is doable to keep these fish in small tanks, but it requires that you know what you do, and do it in the right order.
The OPs dragonet has not a good start if that tank is as sterile as it looks. He really need to get a few pieces of good live rock to seed the tank. At the same time it would be a good idea to start a few tigger pod and brine shrimp cultures to have some live food at hand.
GimpyFin
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GimpyFin
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On a more serious note, one food you can try is ROE from Reef Nutrition. It's refrigerated, sort of a liquid egg compound. You can turn the powerheads off and get a pipette and drop some on the substrate near him. I had a ruby red that ate it. Probably still have him if he didn't manage to jump out.
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