Multi Bar Angel Diet

[Blue Ring Sting]

Hi All

I wanted to find out what is the best type of food to offer Multi Bars? We have one at the moment which has been grazing the live rock for sometime but now he is not eating anything else. The flake food or mysis will hit him in his face and he won't eat any of it.

What is a good diet to give him and what would he possibly accept? We have tried mysis shrimp, flakes, pellets, mussels, angelfish formula and nothing.

 

[Mrscribbled]

Hi All

I wanted to find out what is the best type of food to offer Multi Bars? We have one at the moment which has been grazing the live rock for sometime but now he is not eating anything else. The flake food or mysis will hit him in his face and he won't eat any of it.

What is a good diet to give him and what would he possibly accept? We have tried mysis shrimp, flakes, pellets, mussels, angelfish formula and nothing.

If it's a Marshall island multibar you'll have a fighting chance. If its from indonesia good luck.I have tried a few from Indonesia with no success. I currently have two from marshall Island that accept pe mysis and lrf. They are an extremely passive fish thus far and I plan on keeping them by themselves for a while.

Live black worms and live brine would be a good place to start.

 

[albano]

I have a pair of Multifaciatus... They are one of the few types of fish that I would put in the DT, ASAP! IME they need lots of pods, till they finally take 'prepared' foods.
I usually order 2000 pods at a time from Reefs2Go, when I've added these angels and misc. leopard wrasses... All are doing well.

 

[Blue Ring Sting]

He has come from TMC, so will need to check from them where they were collected. He is beautiful, he is not very shy and was nipping at some corals a while back but never readily accepted any foods. He did have some bloodworm though. Im in SA so to get pods are going to be difficult but will try and get it with my next shipment.

Ill do some searching in SA for some live black worms and some live mysis as well.

 

[bullitr]

IMO, this fish same as juvenile regal should be in mature reef with no ick prone and timid fish like mandarin, sand dwelling wrasse to survive and start to eat. They love to graze on algae all day

 

[o2manyfish]

When I got my pair of them they went two months ignoring every type of prepared food. They were constantly picking off the rock work. They lost a little weight initially, but they didn't get skinny.

I eventually added live brine and both multi-bars ate the live brine. After about 3 days of live brine they eventually started trying all different kinds of prepared foods including flake and pellet.

Dave B

 

[Blue Ring Sting]

He is doing the same at the moment, he is grazing off the rock but not accepting prepared foods. He did have some blood worm though.

The only problem is we don't readily have live foods available here in SA. I am going to see if I can hatch some of my own.

They difficult to come by and it would be a real shame if he starves.

 

[o2manyfish]

Hopefully you have him in a large mature reef tank with lots of live rock to keep producing the foods he needs.

 

[Blue Ring Sting]

He is in a 1.5m ( 250 gallon ) tank with sps, loads of live rock, a few gobies and a cherub angelfish. Tank is mature, been running for more than a year.