BSJ food variety

PRReefNoob · Apr 22, 2020

What live foods would you recommend for BSJ? He's in a 75 gallon kept around 74 F with a 6-8inch sandbed and two clowns and a firefish as his only tank mates. The tank is almost 4 months old and he's been in there a while. He was eating really well and still has a huge food response as far as chasing but seems like he's spitting most stuff back out now. He seems rather healthy/happy and is not frightened easily, and has been venturing out more as well. I have a ~20 G sump as well as a 25 gallon refugium attached and that's been seeded with 3 jars of ecopods as well as macro algae from algaebarn (I don't constantly have the water running thru the refugium but rather run ~10-25% of the time) so I'm pretty confident the pods are getting pumped in to an extent. Parameters are all fine, at least as far as nitrates, nitrates and ammonia. I'm feeding PE freshwater mysis shrimp, LRS reef frenzy nano, with some plankton mixed in. Is there anything else you'd recommend trying/using? I'd love to offer him live food at least as a treat. I do appreciate the advice in advance! Hope to post here more!

Phil

reef lover · Apr 28, 2020

#WelcometoR2R ! Sorry I'm not sure what Bsj stands for...

PRReefNoob · Apr 28, 2020

Yikes, I suppose that would help many perhaps. Blue-spotted jawfish. He's really turning into a pig!

reef lover · Apr 29, 2020

Ohh! Lol hell most likely eat whatever you put in there. You. Could try black worms or white worms if you can find a culture.

PRReefNoob · Apr 29, 2020

He's really coming into his own! Has within the past few days started venturing out of the burrow at dusk and anytime there is food in the water. He doesn't seem big on the frozen PE shrimp which is what I had suggested to me to fatten him up but loves almost everything in the nano reef blend. I've got 1,000 amphipods and copepods acclimating now so I'm interested in how he treats those. I added 24 glass/ghost shrimp yesterday and he actually had a go at a couple and ate one! I've got 1000 live brine shrimp coming also so we will see what him and his tankmates like! I think it just took him a while to settle in! I appreciate the worm ideas! I will look into them!