Maldives Lyretail Anthias Feeding Advice (1 Viewer)

[marty9876]

Looking to see if anyone has tips for getting these guys to eat.

2x females and 1x male, had for 12 days now from Live aquaria.

Smallest female eats ok, larger female one eats less but at least mouths the food and spits it out. Mysis shrimp is the best bet so far, small flake they eat a touch of.

Large male is basically not eating at all. Out in the open, swimming and such (most skittish of the all) but not really mouthing/eating anything I see. Not getting too skinny yet, but not in the right direction.

Environment:
Dedicated QT, 58g bare bottom w/ PCV piping.
1x purple tang, 1x flame angel, 1x multicolor angle as tank mates
2nd round of Prazipro done today, will carbon the system tonight (sometimes I've seen Prazipro lesson appetite)

Food attempted:
Mysis, brine, NLS 1mm pellets & IO chips (flake) [these are on a automatic feeder 2x daily), Prime reef frozen, Rods original, Cylopeze, Formula 1 frozen (various size bits from chunks down to really small parts), Angel formula frozen and some others I'm sure I'm forgetting.

Have others but not sure if work attempting (veggie stuff for the most part)

I'm at the point where I'm ok with the fish being diseases free so I'm not sure if it's into the DT they go (lots of live rock) or if I should keep working with them in the QT environment. I have a staging 75g on the same system as the DT the tang & angels are going into in the next day or two. Dry BRS rock in there feed by a UV so not many bugs in there for them to feed on.

Next steps?

 

[deneed4spd]

I fed mine cyclopeeze with power heads on and they took to it. Then started mixing in nls .5 garlic pellets. Soon they were on pellets.

 

[Kyle T.]

Anthias feed on zooplankton from the water column in the wild, so LR isn't as necessary as it would for angels or tangs per say. IMO, the key to getting anthias to eat is feeding small-sized foods and having plenty of flow to keep the food from settling on the bottom. I'm not sure what you have in the tank as far as flow goes, but adding a couple of powerheads wouldn't hurt.

 

[drahotad]

they also need multiple feedings. Like 3 times a day.

 

[marty9876]

Been doing multiple feedings a day x1000... Flow is a mag 5 return, mag 350 canister, and a ~ 150gph power head- will add a Maxi 1200 to kick it up a bit.

No love on some garlic'd up .5 pellets.

 

[sleeri]

Mysis and cyclopeeze should be all you need. What brand of mysis are you feeding? Go with PE Mysis if you can. Much higher quality. I've kept a large female for quite a while now and this diet has been great for her. I feed generously twice a day. Here's an old photo of mine.

 

[reef.saltwater]

I have 5 Barttlets and 5 lyretail(4 female and 1 male) they eat anything I drop. mostly i feed them mysis, but in hurry they eat pallets or flake.

 

[marty9876]

Both females eating ok now, nothing much from the male. Saw him mouth one piece but that was about it.

Got them by themselves now in the QT, hopefully things start going better.