What to feed tiny Kaudern's Cardinals

[tfrechette]

I received from Divers Den a pair of these. I didn't realize how small they were; 1/2" top to bottom. I tried some frozen mysis, ground up pellets and some ground up flakes.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[peasofme]

hikari frozen blood worms. brine.

 

[zachk]

Live brine shrimp, frozen brine, rotifers, cyclops, daphnia

 

[MikeandNicole]

I picked up a group of 5 babies form my LFS a while back, they were like the size of a quarter over all. At first they only took live brine shrimp so we kept them on that. After a while we introduced live black worms which they also took too (even though they would hang out of their mouths). After a while we were introducing rods food to them. We lost the runt of the group but grew out 2 nice pairs. I gave one pair away but have a very healthy pair right now that eat like pigs.

We also kept them in a 12g tank with only 2 gobies (dracula and yasha in a burrow with a pistol shrimp) in there so nothing was challenging them for food or was being too aggressive. Watch your flow rates as they can get pushed around at that size.