I've been lucky in figuring out a way to feed my Mandarin. He spend a couple of months in a 10 gal. isolation tank, where I was able to introduce him to the "feeding bowl." It started out as a copy of another's method of feeding live baby brine, but that did not seem to work very well. I figured it might be good at keeping the food together, as opposed to scattering around the tank.
He learned to get to frozen brine in the bowl. Now that he is in my DT (55 gal.) he just lays around in the bowl eating. As the other fish are not familiar with the "bowl" they tend to stay away from it. I remove the bowl when it is obvious he is full.
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He may graze all day, as I am doing all I can to increase rotifers and tisbe's, but he is eating one square meal a day. Yes, I've read people say "that is not how they feed in natural setting." Yeah, well my living room is not a natural setting ; )
On a side note, the oldest fish in my tank is an ocellaris clown in her 29th year. Here she is laying an egg nest. Yes, she is swimming upside down:
Good luck!
john
He learned to get to frozen brine in the bowl. Now that he is in my DT (55 gal.) he just lays around in the bowl eating. As the other fish are not familiar with the "bowl" they tend to stay away from it. I remove the bowl when it is obvious he is full.
Youtube:
He may graze all day, as I am doing all I can to increase rotifers and tisbe's, but he is eating one square meal a day. Yes, I've read people say "that is not how they feed in natural setting." Yeah, well my living room is not a natural setting ; )
On a side note, the oldest fish in my tank is an ocellaris clown in her 29th year. Here she is laying an egg nest. Yes, she is swimming upside down:
Good luck!
john
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