Yep, mine is always up in the mix when I put in a sheet of nori. Seems to love it.
On another note, here are some of my observations after keeping my MI now for 3 years.
One of the things I've noticed is that they are not shy. Mine is always out in the tank constantly swimming. Even when I have my hands in the tank to clean, it dosen't bother him nor does he hide like most of my other fish do.
As for food, they are pigs and will eat just about anything you put in the tank. I feed my tank a varitey of different pellet foods along with a sheet of nori. My MI will eat all of it. I've even seen him pick at the alge that grows on the glass. One of the things I have not seen him eat is the different sponges that grow in my tank. When I first put him in the tank, he ate all of one of my sponges but didn't touch any of the others. Now he dosen't eat any of them. These are sponges that grow wild in my tank. That may be that he is now "trained" to eat the pellets I feed the tank. That "training" is a whole different subject/theroy that I have.
What I feel is one of the most important aspects of keeping the MI's long term is swimming room. I say this as I watch mine constantly swim the 7 foot lenght of his tank. He is always active, even at night. One of the things I often observe him doing is swimming in my return flow. At one end of the tank, I have a return from my closed loop. The closed loop is a barracuda pump on a OM 4 way. It pushes about 3500GPH. The return I see my MI swimming in is a 1 1/2" return line that is plumbed into the end of the tank near the bottom of the tank. It has a 45 elbow on it to angle the water upwards. Everyday, I can watch as my MI will get into this stream and swim as hard as he can to stay in one place. Over and over he will repeat this process at that one return as the water cycles between the different returns. I guess you could say it's kind of like getting exercise on a tread mill.
But I honsetly beleive that having the larger tank and providing the MI with plenty of swimming room is a key to successfuly keeping them. My MI is now about the size of my hand and about an inch thick. His streamer is thick and looks more like an elongated fin with just the tip being the thin streamer that you normally see. I'll try and post some recent pics of him when I can.
Good luck to all who are keeping the MI's and keep relating your experiences.
On another note, here are some of my observations after keeping my MI now for 3 years.
One of the things I've noticed is that they are not shy. Mine is always out in the tank constantly swimming. Even when I have my hands in the tank to clean, it dosen't bother him nor does he hide like most of my other fish do.
As for food, they are pigs and will eat just about anything you put in the tank. I feed my tank a varitey of different pellet foods along with a sheet of nori. My MI will eat all of it. I've even seen him pick at the alge that grows on the glass. One of the things I have not seen him eat is the different sponges that grow in my tank. When I first put him in the tank, he ate all of one of my sponges but didn't touch any of the others. Now he dosen't eat any of them. These are sponges that grow wild in my tank. That may be that he is now "trained" to eat the pellets I feed the tank. That "training" is a whole different subject/theroy that I have.
What I feel is one of the most important aspects of keeping the MI's long term is swimming room. I say this as I watch mine constantly swim the 7 foot lenght of his tank. He is always active, even at night. One of the things I often observe him doing is swimming in my return flow. At one end of the tank, I have a return from my closed loop. The closed loop is a barracuda pump on a OM 4 way. It pushes about 3500GPH. The return I see my MI swimming in is a 1 1/2" return line that is plumbed into the end of the tank near the bottom of the tank. It has a 45 elbow on it to angle the water upwards. Everyday, I can watch as my MI will get into this stream and swim as hard as he can to stay in one place. Over and over he will repeat this process at that one return as the water cycles between the different returns. I guess you could say it's kind of like getting exercise on a tread mill.
But I honsetly beleive that having the larger tank and providing the MI with plenty of swimming room is a key to successfuly keeping them. My MI is now about the size of my hand and about an inch thick. His streamer is thick and looks more like an elongated fin with just the tip being the thin streamer that you normally see. I'll try and post some recent pics of him when I can.
Good luck to all who are keeping the MI's and keep relating your experiences.
