Eibli (Red Stripe) Angelfish owners....feeding....

CanuckReefer · Dec 28, 2020

Has been 4 or 5 days, we've gotten past the aggression stage between her and the coral beauty thankfully, was a risk. She seems especially preoccupied with feeding off all my live rock, filters etc, voraciously, no interest whatsoever on feeding, even when it's a broadcast of small cyclops etc for the entire reef? We good here? I've got plenty of seasoned rock, just figured she might be appetized eventually? Thanks all.

pcon · Dec 28, 2020

Dwarf angels are benthic feeders so they sometimes wont take to broadcast feeding right away. Eibli typically take to typical aquarium food easily but some individuals of any species can be stubborn. I would try smearing food on a rock, I typically mix an angel food prep like hikari mega marine angel with mastic and smear the mix on a rock. you can also try nori either on a clip or rubber banded to a rock that has worked in the past for me with potters angels.

ca1ore · Dec 28, 2020

Not at all unusual for newly introduced dwarf angels to just graze. Particularly true for potters, lemonpeel and eibli. Just takes a bit of time. Important to have plenty of grazable surfaces.

CanuckReefer · Dec 28, 2020

pcon said:
Dwarf angels are benthic feeders so they sometimes wont take to broadcast feeding right away. Eibli typically take to typical aquarium food easily but some individuals of any species can be stubborn. I would try smearing food on a rock, I typically mix an angel food prep like hikari mega marine angel with mastic and smear the mix on a rock. you can also try nori either on a clip or rubber banded to a rock that has worked in the past for me with potters angels.

ca1ore said:
Not at all unusual for newly introduced dwarf angels to just graze. Particularly true for potters, lemonpeel and eibli. Just takes a bit of time. Important to have plenty of grazable surfaces.

Thanks both for the input, plenty of grazing area for her thankfully, and I will try the paste on rock idea this eve.
Here she be, grazing, and also thankfully thusfar getting along with her Dwarf CB counterpart...