Pink gigantea?

[OrionN]

There is nothing wrong with silverside if they are fresh. Small fish freeze with gut, they are easy to get spoiled. Treating as pet food, they don't get the care they get as human food. Most LFS or wholesaler, if they got a thawed out batch due to what ever problem, they will just refreeze and sell them. When this happens and we feed them to our anemone, will end up with a very sick/dead anemone.
I used to used them too until this kill one of my Magnifica. I have advice people against them ever since. If you use them, make sure they are not smelly.
Given the choices we have in sea food for human use, fresher, cheaper, I just never go back to Silverside, or larger plankton or fish food. I used Frozen Mysis and Ocean Plankton, but will throw them away if they are bad. I rather wast a few dollars than feed smelly food to my tank.

 

[AkoAung]

There is nothing wrong with silverside if they are fresh. Small fish freeze with gut, they are easy to get spoiled. Treating as pet food, they don't get the care they get as human food. Most LFS or wholesaler, if they got a thawed out batch due to what ever problem, they will just refreeze and sell them. When this happens and we feed them to our anemone, will end up with a very sick/dead anemone.
I used to used them too until this kill one of my Magnifica. I have advice people against them ever since. If you use them, make sure they are not smelly.
Given the choices we have in sea food for human use, fresher, cheaper, I just never go back to Silverside, or larger plankton or fish food. I used Frozen Mysis and Ocean Plankton, but will throw them away if they are bad. I rather wast a few dollars than feed smelly food to my tank.

that's a good explanation. I think I'll stick with mysis, pellets and human seafood. This will be good for me. I'll be eating more fish from now on .

 

[AkoAung]

Agree, or how dogs still walk in circles to "lay down the grass" before they lay down.
Captive bred or WC, makes no difference, and while many will accept nems that are not natural hosts, they will usually accept a natural faster, even if they have never seen one.

Well malu and doreensis aren't the natural host for OC. though my wild OC took to the malu right away. it took about a day. I can still hope.

 

[davocean]

Well malu and doreensis aren't the natural host for OC. though my wild OC took to the malu right away. it took about a day. I can still hope.

Yeah we are all generally speaking on behalf of typical behavior, of course each will vary depending on personality.
Occs from all that I have seen heard and read seem to be the slowest to accept hosts natural or non, but eventually usually do, just need to exercise patience.

 

[AkoAung]

Hi guys, the malu doesn't seem to be settling into my tank. I keep finding it face down in the morning. I have put it back together with its buddy clown fish (clown was in qt for having some sort of parasite). it does look ok during the day when the light is on, but at night it seems to turn upside down again. why is it not using its foot to grab hold of the bottom? could it be sick?