Lyretail Anthias - Feeding ?

[koga57]

I have recently added one male and two female Lyretail Anthias to my 5 foot long 120 gallon. I have a trigger sys refugium with cheato, so copepods are all over the glass frequently.

Upon initial feeding of a mixture of spirulina enriched mysis and brine shrimp, I noticed that they would take the food into their mouth and typically spit it back out. This shrimp was soaked in Garlic Extreme as well. I then tried some cyclop eeze and all the fish would chase it around and take a bite but I am worried about feeding it on a daily basis due to overloading the system (?).

I have also tried the concentrated kent phytomax and they obviously are eating it as they swim around the tank taking in large gulps.

I have ordered some selcon for soaking the mysis in which will arrive on Saturday. These fish are very healthy, don't misunderstand. I just want to know what you guy's/gal's are having luck with feeding your Lyretail Anthias.

David

 

[Shooter7]

Mine gobble up formula one flakes. They also eat cyclopeeze, spirulina enriched brine, sinking pellets, and even nab some pieces of the nori that I feed my tang and foxface.

 

[gary faulkner]

Shooter7
How many do you have in your 120?

 

[falconut]

I had a single male for over a year and he started only eating live brine (for the 1st week), then started eating frozen brine and mysis. After about 6 months started eating Prime Reef flakes. A power outage took him out.

Now I have 2 females. I've had them for about a month and they started right off with frozen brine and mysis. Now they even eat the Prime reef flakes.

Also, I only feed once a day (fairly heavy). Occationally I'll feed twice on either Saturday or Sunday, but the 2nd time is smaller and ussually just flakes.

 

[natedogg]

koga- where did you get your anthias?

 

[Serioussnaps]

Hey ITS NOT SO MUCH WHAT YOU FEED-----its the SIZE OF WHAT YOU FEED ANTHIAS---------they like really fine food....i had the same thing happen with dispars....i just put cyclopeeze, mysis, and whatever you want to use or supplement in a blender and chopped it real fine.....the dispars began devouring it.

these fish are zooplankton feeders in the wild and they eat very fine food...those chunky pieces of mysis(the average size mysis and even small) are too big...so they spit it out.....feed them well chopped fine foods and you will see them start eating with a vigorous response....over time you can train them to eat the foodstuffs as they come..so long as you have them eating


Just try this when you read this and I guarrantee you will see them SWALLOWING the foods

yeah ditch the garlic-----aka nutrient bomb------and get you some selcon...its not that they wont eat ....the food is too big