picky eaters !! whats your go to

[lunacris]

so we have all had that fish thats a pia and makes us stress about getting it to eat again . whats your magic go to mix or food of choice that usually works for ya ? i myself have a ton of food flake, pellets , frozen ... i always stress to see eat at store first , if it eats i ask what ya feeding ? this makes it a bit easier after getting it home . when home, i have mixed all my flake together in a big tub if that dont work pellets enriched with garlic /without . frozen is normal rods , mysis . if they wont eat my go to is brine sp. with garlic extreme . this seems to be my magic sauce and usually gets them picking . after that i start mixing the everyday feed with it till brine and garlic extreme is no longer mixed in . whats your go to ?

 

[SkullV]

Spirulina Brine seems to get most things going for me if all else fails. Once they are on that I usually just put the NLS .5mm pellets in the water with the brine for a nmin or 2 and dump it all in, over the course of a couple weeks I reduce the amount of brine I use and increase the amount of pellets.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Live blackworms, soaked in Selcon & Vitachem.

 

[EyeReef]

live brine shrimps are an instant hit usually. For angels, clam on a half shell

 

[jrpark22000]

Mac & cheese, chicken nuggets, hotdogs or spaghetti-Os

Spectrum, gut-loaded brine, mysis, rods, red worms, ocean nutrition prime reef or formula 2 and mix any/all of it with garlic. Some combination of it has worked for everyone to date.

 

[madjoe]

Black worms also i found they usually take frozen blood worms worked best for me

 

[Venom]

Nutramar ova all the fish love it only food that my mandarin will eat except pods

 

[AQUAPROS]

all of the above have worked, also want to add New Era Pellets have gotten great reactions out of fish including copperband butterflies, and also the 'human-grade' Reef Frenzy! We carry them all

 

[SkullV]

I really want to get out there and get some reef frenzy from you!

 

[sevenseas]

Finicky eaters should be left in the ocean. Chances are, even if they eventually accept foods, they wont have a long lives in a tank!

 

[lunacris]

but how does one know its a picky eater when it eats at store and the you get it home ? and all reading about the fish prior to buying nobody says its hard to get eating . sometimes the most common fish will be a bit of a pain . what do you do then ? return to ocean ?

 

[jayjerk]

What fish

 

[lunacris]

anyfish