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I have 2 wild caught bicolor angels, today is day 9 of their life in my garden of eden created just for them.
The smaller one is easy. She's eating like a champ, anything I put in there, off the bottom, from the surface, or in the water column, with or without pumps running to create movement:
Pellets: TDO, New Life Spectrum, PE Mysis pellets
Frozen: Mysis, brine, reef frenzy
Live: black worms
The bigger one... eats live worms for sure. He'll eat worms that lie on the bottom uneaten 30 minutes later (hence they are dead worms). But the rest is weird. He ate one of 4 PE Mysis pellets (presoaked), ate a single New Life Spectrum (tiny) pellet I soaked in garlic while ignoring subsequent soaked ones, ate one mysis shrimp while mostly ignoring the rest subsequently, etc.
Looking for tips to coax this guy along. It seems he is so into the worms (which I stopped feeding, at least for now), that he races to try to grab the tweezers when I put them over the surface (how I fed the worms, he's pavlovian in his response). I tried tricking him by using the tweezers to feed him a pellet, but nope, he wasn't going for it.
He does this weird thing where if there is (say) a pellet or frozen piece of food lying on the bottom, he goes up to it, sniffs it, acts like he's gonna go for it, then swims away. Very occasionally he'll bite it, as if it was gonna bite back, and it flies away from this head jerk. (Bare bottom tank.)
He goes after the frozen food more if the pumps are running (gives chase to the food).
Frustrating.
The smaller one is easy. She's eating like a champ, anything I put in there, off the bottom, from the surface, or in the water column, with or without pumps running to create movement:
Pellets: TDO, New Life Spectrum, PE Mysis pellets
Frozen: Mysis, brine, reef frenzy
Live: black worms
The bigger one... eats live worms for sure. He'll eat worms that lie on the bottom uneaten 30 minutes later (hence they are dead worms). But the rest is weird. He ate one of 4 PE Mysis pellets (presoaked), ate a single New Life Spectrum (tiny) pellet I soaked in garlic while ignoring subsequent soaked ones, ate one mysis shrimp while mostly ignoring the rest subsequently, etc.
Looking for tips to coax this guy along. It seems he is so into the worms (which I stopped feeding, at least for now), that he races to try to grab the tweezers when I put them over the surface (how I fed the worms, he's pavlovian in his response). I tried tricking him by using the tweezers to feed him a pellet, but nope, he wasn't going for it.
He does this weird thing where if there is (say) a pellet or frozen piece of food lying on the bottom, he goes up to it, sniffs it, acts like he's gonna go for it, then swims away. Very occasionally he'll bite it, as if it was gonna bite back, and it flies away from this head jerk. (Bare bottom tank.)
He goes after the frozen food more if the pumps are running (gives chase to the food).
Frustrating.