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Thing they tend to be aggressive because the are afraid. Which makes them not come out to eat enough
Yeah, once she staked her claim...weird as mine swim happily around the tank for the first few days, now he hardly ever comes out. For eating the odd bit and moving from one cave to another.
I got my gramma in 2014 as a full grown adult from a person who had been neglecting his tank and sold to me. I figure its got to be 8 or 9 years old at least. It eats just about any frozen- omnivore, mysis, brine, etc. Loves black worms too. My fish include bicolor angel, hippo tang, copperband, maroon clowns, lemon chromis, and I had a yellow tang so similar to your livestock. I would suspect the dottyback but none of the others. Maybe just coincidental bad luck. These are usually not that tough to keep.I love the color of the Royal Gramma and I really want to keep one. But I seem to have no luck with them. My fourth one just passed. Two days ago I observed he had a bad case of tail rot, now he is gone. The lifespan of my Grammas in my 75 gallon tank have been:
1. Twelve months
2. One day
3. Six months
4. Eight months
Any idea why? Do they require a special food I don't feed them? Or some unusual water parameters? I feed Frozen Reef Frenzy once per day. Also nori, but they don't seem to eat that.
My other fish are: Coral Beauty Angel, Diamond Goby, Hippo Tang, two Clownfish, Target Spot Mandarin Goby, Yellow Tang, Springer Dottyback
Inverts: Hermit crabs, snails, Coral Banded Shrimp, Sand Sifting Sea Star
I got my gramma in 2014 as a full grown adult from a person who had been neglecting his tank and sold to me. I figure its got to be 8 or 9 years old at least. It eats just about any frozen- omnivore, mysis, brine, etc. Loves black worms too. My fish include bicolor angel, hippo tang, copperband, maroon clowns, lemon chromis, and I had a yellow tang so similar to your livestock. I would suspect the dottyback but none of the others. Maybe just coincidental bad luck. These are usually not that tough to keep.
I keep harem, seven of them, of Royal Gramma in my 420 for many years. No problem. They even spawned in my tank. They only eat frozen and life food. Rarely if ever bite on flakes or pellets.
Live food, Frozen mysis. I also feed a mixture of blended fish, shrimps mussel, fish eggs and the like. (any frozen/fresh sea food I can get my hand on)
Mine seem to like brine shrimp and fish eggs. Eats fish eggs like pac-man.thanks for the reply, wow your gramma eats all that!
I feed all of those, I guess mine is just very picky then.