Male Anthias not eating

[plancton]

Hi, I bought 2 female and 1 male lyretail anthias yesterday. Today I fed them cyclop eeze, and the 2 females ate it, and the male didn't. Then I fed them flakes and to my surprise the females did eat it. But no response from the male.

Plus the male is acting more shy than the female.

So I am a little worried, this is only the second day, but I just want to know if this could be a normal behaviour, I mean the females are eating.

 

[TCU Reefer]

Try PE mysis.

 

[Angel*Fish]

I have an anthias that won't eat Cyclopeeze going on 8 mo. now. But all the others do.

If he won't eat the mysis or frozen brine (preferably gut-loaded)
Why not pick up some live brine if nothing else works? If that doesn't work, there isn't an anthias anywhere that will refuse just hatched baby brine. It's very easy to do - you can buy a kit from the LFS or rig up your own. All you really need is the eggs and an airstone. Take about 24 hrs to hatch.

This is speculation, but to me it seems like the whole "being taken out of the ocean thing" or even just changing tanks is more stressful to the male anthias than it is to the females

 

[falconut]

I had a male that took only live brine for the 1st week and then would only eat frozen mysis & frozen brine for 6 months before actually eating flakes. My females started eating about day 3 - 4. Also, my male stopped eating after about a month, I used the live brine and that worked and just mixed the frozen back in and he ate well ever since. It might just be a male thing. HTH

 

[eskymick]

I got my Evansi started with Sweetwater Plankton (it comes in a small glass jar).

 

[Angel*Fish]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7908176#post7908176 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by eskymick
I got my Evansi started with Sweetwater Plankton (it comes in a small glass jar).

I always forget about that stuff - as a matter of fact there's an old jar in the back of my little fish frig. right now that I forgot about (eeeeew)-

Apparently very tasty stuff if you're a fish - good suggestion

 

[plancton]

I fed them brine shrimp and he didn't eat. So far he is eating something, very small pieces of shrimp.