Finicky Lyretail Anthia

OIIIIIO · 12-09-2008, 01:28 PM

I'm having trouble with getting a new anthia to eat. I've had her about a week and all she will eat is brine shrimp. I've tried spectrum, cyclopeeze, and freeze dried brine shrimp. I picked up supplies to hatch my own brine shrimp so that she'd at least get a little nutrition from the yolks, but would rather feed dried foods out of convenience. What else can I try? Is this normal?

Jadinop · 12-10-2008, 09:53 PM

Frozen mysis shrimp are usually accepted eagerly. I also like to feed my anthias frozen plankton and reef plankton. Once they get eating regularly, they pretty much accept anything.

OIIIIIO · 12-11-2008, 08:55 AM

thanks, Jadinop. I've tried the frozen mysis with little luck. The fish will bite at it but soon spits it back out. I'm going to try to mix the mysis in with a little brine shrimp tonight in hopes that the excitement created may cause the fish to swallow some mysis while chasing down the shrimp.