Copperband eating pellets?

[reefrage]

anybody have a Copperband that eats pellets? i've been thinking of getting one but heard they are hard to feed.

 

[EnterName]

I had to ask the seller what specific food they fed the Copperband because it's a really picky eater. Frozen mysis and artemia is pretty much the only stuff he touches. I tried various worms, fish eggs, cockles, masstick pase, artemia-based paste, many different mixed frozen food products... it's insane how picky it is. You really have to get lucky with the individual fish to get it to eat something like pellets in my opinion. Even specialized feeding stations so the fish associates a specific thing with food that he likes and can eat all on his own without being disturbed doesn't convince him to eat something else. It's been quite frustrating

 

[Evil1]

Mine has never eaten pellets and ONLY eats frozen blood worms. Tried everything else on the market for some time but no luck.

 

[reefrage]

I had to ask the seller what specific food they fed the Copperband because it's a really picky eater. Frozen mysis and artemia is pretty much the only stuff he touches. I tried various worms, fish eggs, cockles, masstick pase, artemia-based paste, many different mixed frozen food products... it's insane how picky it is. You really have to get lucky with the individual fish to get it to eat something like pellets in my opinion. Even specialized feeding stations so the fish associates a specific thing with food that he likes and can eat all on his own without being disturbed doesn't convince him to eat something else. It's been quite frustrating

may not be the fish for me!

 

[Evil1]

I will say this, my CBB has almost eradicated my bristle worm population. Not that I care but I had quite the population and didn’t mind because I believe they are good cuc. He is a night prowler and makes sense because blood worms and bristle worms look similar. Not the reason I got him but no harm no foul in my book

 

[taulgrl]

Mine only ate live or frozen food. Wasn’t a problem until I had to go away for two weeks and feed with a dry food autofeeder. The AF4 feeder wasn’t on the market yet but is a possible solution now. I’ve never heard of a Copperband eating dry food.

 

[mfinn]

My CBB only eats the frozen mysis and brine shrimp I feed the tank. When I feed pellets to the tank he ignores them.

 

[reefrage]

Mine only ate live or frozen food. Wasn’t a problem until I had to go away for two weeks and feed with a dry food autofeeder. The AF4 feeder wasn’t on the market yet but is a possible solution now. I’ve never heard of a Copperband eating dry food.

did he survive while you where away? w

 

[reefrage]

My CBB only eats the frozen mysis and brine shrimp I feed the tank. When I feed pellets to the tank he ignores them.

bummer! i thought maybe somebody would have had success with this

 

[mfinn]

bummer! i thought maybe somebody would have had success with this

I'll watch today when I feed pellets and see if it has gone over. But even if it did, it's such a long shot, it's not something you can count on. So far 100% of the people who have responded have said no, their CBB doesn't eat pellets.

 

[exnisstech]

I had a female that would eat flake while my male watched her but he wouldn't touch it. She ignored all 5 types of pellet I feed. She was in for over a year before she started eating formula 2 flake. Frozen & live are usually what they will eat so I wouldn't add one with any hope it would eat pellets. Also having a mature tank with a lot of rock with worms and little critters they can hunt is a plus.
I'm working on training my new one to eat flake while he's in observation. Coming up on four months and nothing more than an occasional peck and spit it out so far.