What was your trick to teaching a CBB to eat!!!
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What was your trick to teaching a CBB to eat!!!
The one I had ate like a cow I used to have to chase it away with a baster when I was spot feeding my corals. I would keep at it with the live brine and if it starts to take then mix frozen brine in with the live and then mysis mine would even try and eat bristle worms would swim around around looking like he tangled with a porcupine lol!
The one I had ate like a cow I used to have to chase it away with a baster when I was spot feeding my corals. I would keep at it with the live brine and if it starts to take then mix frozen brine in with the live and then mysis mine would even try and eat bristle worms would swim around around looking like he tangled with a porcupine lol!
Re: What was your trick to teaching a CBB to eat!!!
Mine refuses prepared foods still. Haven't had him very long. He does seem interested in the other fish when they are being fed, maybe he will learn from them. Otherwise he (his name is David Copperband) is feeding on tube worms and copepods it appears. I didn't quarantine him as I knew getting him to eat prepared foods may not work, and I lost one a while back trying to do that. I do think the bigger sized ones are a little easier to get to eat. I think it would be better for him to eat some prepared foods as I don't believe he is eating enough. I am hoping the combination of available natural foods and watching the other fish feed that he will make it in the long run.
I have also started to use garlic when I feed to try to entice him.
Have you tried adding some copepods or live rock for him. I am assuming he is in quarantine.
Mine refuses prepared foods still. Haven't had him very long. He does seem interested in the other fish when they are being fed, maybe he will learn from them. Otherwise he (his name is David Copperband) is feeding on tube worms and copepods it appears. I didn't quarantine him as I knew getting him to eat prepared foods may not work, and I lost one a while back trying to do that. I do think the bigger sized ones are a little easier to get to eat. I think it would be better for him to eat some prepared foods as I don't believe he is eating enough. I am hoping the combination of available natural foods and watching the other fish feed that he will make it in the long run.
I have also started to use garlic when I feed to try to entice him.
Have you tried adding some copepods or live rock for him. I am assuming he is in quarantine.
What was your trick to teaching a CBB to eat!!!
No he's in the DT with 300lbs of live rock, I have not tried copods yet though. I turned off all the pumps and dumped a whole thing of live brine in there and he ate 5-10 of them but not near enough. Plus I can't feed 100000 live brines twice a day lol
No he's in the DT with 300lbs of live rock, I have not tried copods yet though. I turned off all the pumps and dumped a whole thing of live brine in there and he ate 5-10 of them but not near enough. Plus I can't feed 100000 live brines twice a day lol
What was your trick to teaching a CBB to eat!!!
Alright I will try the black worms, however I turned off all the pumps and he eats fairly well, it seems like he is to slow to get to food in the water column and I'm considering away to sink a frozen food cube, this would allow him to pick at it for an extended period of time without having to chase the food. Seems the more I read about them the more I see ppl saying they are just slow and need an extended amount of time to feed or a stationary food source such as aphasia, feather dusters or clams(oh **** lol) hopefully he steals clear of the clams though. Thanks for all the advise and so far I see him likeing the bloodworms the best.
Alright I will try the black worms, however I turned off all the pumps and he eats fairly well, it seems like he is to slow to get to food in the water column and I'm considering away to sink a frozen food cube, this would allow him to pick at it for an extended period of time without having to chase the food. Seems the more I read about them the more I see ppl saying they are just slow and need an extended amount of time to feed or a stationary food source such as aphasia, feather dusters or clams(oh **** lol) hopefully he steals clear of the clams though. Thanks for all the advise and so far I see him likeing the bloodworms the best.
What was your trick to teaching a CBB to eat!!!
Well I'm gonna get some black worms and some whole blood worms this weekend but he seems to be doin pretty well, I have noticed him eating every blood worm he can find in my mix food so I'm guessing he is sustaining himself. I really am just worried he might get a little too hungry then go after my clam
Well I'm gonna get some black worms and some whole blood worms this weekend but he seems to be doin pretty well, I have noticed him eating every blood worm he can find in my mix food so I'm guessing he is sustaining himself. I really am just worried he might get a little too hungry then go after my clam
theres a brand, Formula 1, i believe aquamart sells it, but some other places do. its frozen cubed food... but the best part is that it sinks to the bottom and just sits. nothing needed. i got a copper band that my roommate bought to eat that within a week of being in the tank (little 1.5-2inch max guy)... just let it thaw about 5 minutes, stick it in the tank and shake it around to get what has thawed off and for others to eat. then let it go and it'll sink down for the CBB