Need Food Recomendations

[brians_224]

Thanks for your time!

Last Thursday I received two new fish: a juvenile black ocellaris, and a teeny tiny pallete tang (<.75"). I purchased the fish from Live Aquaria. The two fish were acclimated to a 10 gallon qt tank.

I don't think that I'm having much luck feeding my new friends. I don't see them eat when I feed - no pursuit of food.

I've tried the following foods:

1) New Spectrum pellets - I soak them first to soften and make them easier to eat
2) Thawed Mysis
3) Thawed Brine
4) Cyclopeze
5) Crushed Formula flake
6) Ocean Nutrition algae sheets
7) Thawed formula one

Can you recomend another item to try? I've read juvi hippos are planktivors - what should I be feeding? Someone suggested Daphnia. Would DT's be appropriate?

Both fish seem very active. I'm concerned the tiny hippo is mal-nourished. Where do they show signs of being under weight?

 

[angelsj247]

my clowns likes formula one pellets, frozen brine shrimp and preserved brine shrimp.
maybe you should try some live food, live brine shrimp maybe.

 

[flameangel88]

When I put new fishes in they would normally eat in a day or two especially with Cyclopeeze even a sick fish will come out to check. I would try live brine as angelsj247 suggested above or soaking fronzen food in Garlic Guard.

 

[brians_224]

thought there was no nutrition in brine?

 

[brians_224]

Also - I contacted LiveAquaria

They suggested:

"I withhold feedings in the aquarium for about 3 days and then try adding the food. This will help to build the appetite of the fish so they will eat the food being placed into the aquarium. "

 

[angelsj247]

you need them to eat something. live brine does have nutrition , i believe its the frozen brine that doesnt.

 

[flameangel88]

Newly hatched brine have nutritional value but the point here is to get your fishes to eat and once it start eating then you can try with dry stuff. On the withholding part--you'd them since last Thursday and I would they should be hungry by now. Hope everything works out.

 

[brians_224]

Thanks for all of your posts.

Should I try to hatch my own brine or go to the lfs and buy their's? I don't know how young they are.

 

[flameangel88]

If you can hatch that's the best way and you don't have to worry about bacteria.

 

[angelsj247]

either way.. depends on how much time you have