SDguy - do any of your anthias eat NLS pellets?

[snorvich]

Peter or anyone who keeps anthias: do any of them eat NLS pellets? Thanks in advance!

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[MCCOOL]

Both of my P. dispar, and my P. ignitus love .5mm and 1mm Thera +A pellets.

 

[snorvich]

Thanks! I will experiment tomorrow and see if my Resplendents or carberryi like them. Anyone else?

 

[IFbettas]

The P. hypselosoma and P. squamipinnis I used to have loved NLS.

The only anthias I currently have is a sunburst. It took months for her to even look at NLS, but now she loves it as well.

 

[SDguy]

Lyerails, dispars, bartletts eat them. Maybe a couple carberryi. Lone lori - forget about it

 

[ROBONE20]

My Lyretails and Sunburst eat pellets.

 

[AuroraDrvr]

(2) Lyretails and (3) Bicolors all eat NLS Thera A+ here.

 

[snorvich]

Thanks everyone!! I have time tomorrow to experiment, it would be nice to add another food type.

 

[Makenna]

Only my Bartletts will...others have no interest. Each week I try though hoping that at some point they will just 'catch on'.

 

[SDguy]

Try presoaking them. IME anthias don't appreciate hard dry pellets.

 

[Recty]

My lyretails ate my NLS pellets like greedy little pigs. I had four of them and an autofeeder I set to feed 5 times a day with small portions, it worked really well.

 

[Barracuda]

Steve,

My resplendent group eats the NPS 1mm pellets with gusto

 

[snorvich]

Steve,

My resplendent group eats the NPS 1mm pellets with gusto

Thanks. I will try today!

 

[aquaph8]

My squareback loves em, all the way up to 2mm size.

 

[snorvich]

Neither of my species tried them (although they eat everything else); perhaps soaking them will work, but if so, in what?

 

[Korrine]

Garlic or tank water. Selcon too!

 

[Recty]

I used to take a shot glass, melt a cube or two of mysis shrimp inside it and some 1mm NLS pellets mixed in with it. I'd feed that to the tank and for the most part just saw the anthias eating mysis, then one day I really watched and they were taking in some pellets as well. Not a lot, but they were. I slowly weaned my entire tank over to just pellets by decreasing the amount of mysis in the shot glass and raising the amount of pellets and by the end of a month or so, everything in my tank was happily just eating pellets.

I dont have that tank anymore, but I had four lyretail anthias for over a year in it and they did good totally on pellets for the last 8 months or so until I sold the tank and it's inhabitants.

My experience with most fish that get weaned over to pellets is that even when I offer meaty foods like mysis or cut up pieces of fresh meat from the seafood store, if I offer it with pellets the fish take the pellets first, then the meat. It makes me think they really like the pellets, although it could just be they are used to eating pellets so they know that's a good food and that is what they go for first.

 

[snorvich]

Recty, that is a good idea. I will try it this afternoon's feeding. I am not trying to get my tank off frozen, just trying to add a nutritious food for another feeding.

 

[snorvich]

Actually combining NLS pellets and mysis (two kinds) in a presoak worked well. I think the carberryi would eat cheeseburgers if I supplied them. I did the same for the resplendents but could not figure out who was eating what as it is always a feeding frenzy. Tomorrow I will add some Vitality.

 

[Recty]

I think the key is the fish cant even tell what's going on when you've got them mixed together. Even if they didnt mean to eat a pellet, they are still getting one that is stuck to a piece of mysis. This is a good situation, if you ask me, as there are surely nutrients and other good "stuff" in the pellets that can only help the anthias do better.

I never stopped feeding frozen to my tank entirely, but I limited the frozen and was able to go on vacation with only an auto feeder and auto top off running, which I never could have done had I continued to feed only frozen to my fish.

I turned frozen food into more of a snack for the fish, feeding a hunk of frozen every 2 or 3 days or just whenever, I had no schedule for it, but my main source of nutrition was NLS pellets and my fish looked great, I really like those pellets

Being able to use an autofeeder for anthias is SUPER AWESOME. I had my anthias being fed 5 times a day and they really prospered.

FWIW, I'm taking the same concept of small frequent feedings to my current FOWLR which has no anthias and all the "regular" fish seem to really like it as well.