Active fish but not visible eating

[peavy]

Very active once food enters tank but not seeing eating.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Very active once food enters tank but not seeing eating.

What species of fish?
How long have you had it?
What are you trying to feed it?
Can you post a vide of you trying to feed it?

Recently, I posted a short article on how to classify different feeding responses in fish:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/relative-feeding-responses-in-fishes.1146254/

 

[W31Olds]

Peavy, is this continuation of your previous post that was a faulty heater problem?
@Jay Hemdal

 

[peavy]

Very active once food enters tank but not seeing eating.

What species of fish?
How long have you had it?
What are you trying to feed it?
Can you post a vide of you trying to feed it?

Recently, I posted a short article on how to classify different feeding responses in fish:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/relative-feeding-responses-in-fishes.1146254/

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[W31Olds]

They look active and should be eating soon. I can't say how long after being in lower Temps it would take. The only positive I can say is since they were so lethargic, it might have bought you some time.

 

[peavy]

Peavy, is this continuation of your previous post that was a faulty heater problem?
@Jay Hemdal

Yeah

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Can you please answer my other questions?

 

[peavy]

Can you please answer my other questions?

I posted video
: Lyetail Anthias
: 7 days
: rods frozen (fish only blend) very meaty. I also soak in selcon concentrate

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I posted video
: Lyetail Anthias
: 7 days
: rods frozen (fish only blend) very meaty. I also soak in selcon concentrate

It looks like flake food floating in the video? If so, I’d skip that. If that’s the rods food scraped down in size, it still may be too large and unnatural for new anthias to accept it. Best starter foods are chopped up mysids of live baby brine shrimp(that you’d have to hatch out yourself).

 

[peavy]

I posted video
: Lyetail Anthias
: 7 days
: rods frozen (fish only blend) very meaty. I also soak in selcon concentrate

It looks like flake food floating in the video? If so, I’d skip that. If that’s the rods food scraped down in size, it still may be too large and unnatural for new anthias to accept it. Best starter foods are chopped up mysids of live baby brine shrimp(that you’d have to hatch out yourself).

No flakes, rods has oster, mysis, brine , squid, and some other meats… I let soak and use pipett to put in tank..

 

[W31Olds]

This type of food is not natural to Lyretails. Most are planktonic feeders that are used to small items and frequent feedings. I think I recommended frozen Cyclops previously as a starter. Jay recommended BB Shrimp which would be best but they take some time to hatch out. Any frozen food that's for small mouthed fish may work.