Lyretail anthias not eating

[Spookyclemente]

Hello, I just got a male and female pair of Lyretail anthias. The female is smaller than the male, but both are very healthy, but for whatever reason they will not eat I’m feeding them Brian shrimp and the female will swim up to them, but not eat it and the mail won’t even budge and just stays hiding all day I’ve had the female for over a week in the mail for close to a week and still they just don’t seem to wanna eat and they don’t seem to interact with each other school or do anything. They just act like they don’t even exist in the tank, what do I do in this situation? I don’t want them to starve to death.
Wanna add they are both extremely healthy colors are super vibrant no visible damage or infection or anything like that very established tank and a 125 gallon plenty of live rock.

 

[kevgib67]

Hello, I just got a male and female pair of Lyretail anthias. The female is smaller than the male, but both are very healthy, but for whatever reason they will not eat I’m feeding them Brian shrimp and the female will swim up to them, but not eat it and the mail won’t even budge and just stays hiding all day I’ve had the female for over a week in the mail for close to a week and still they just don’t seem to wanna eat and they don’t seem to interact with each other school or do anything. They just act like they don’t even exist in the tank, what do I do in this situation? I don’t want them to starve to death.
Wanna add they are both extremely healthy colors are super vibrant no visible damage or infection or anything like that very established tank and a 125 gallon plenty of live rock.

Can you contact the vendor and ask what they were feeding? Garlic extract is supposed to boost appetite. Increase the variety of foods you feed them. If possible get your hands on live food, black worms, white worms and/or live brine shrimp. Amazon has a brine shrimp hatchery and they hatch overnight. Feed while they still have the egg sacks.

 

[Spookyclemente]

Hello, I just got a male and female pair of Lyretail anthias. The female is smaller than the male, but both are very healthy, but for whatever reason they will not eat I’m feeding them Brian shrimp and the female will swim up to them, but not eat it and the mail won’t even budge and just stays hiding all day I’ve had the female for over a week in the mail for close to a week and still they just don’t seem to wanna eat and they don’t seem to interact with each other school or do anything. They just act like they don’t even exist in the tank, what do I do in this situation? I don’t want them to starve to death.
Wanna add they are both extremely healthy colors are super vibrant no visible damage or infection or anything like that very established tank and a 125 gallon plenty of live rock.

Can you contact the vendor and ask what they were feeding? Garlic extract is supposed to boost appetite. Increase the variety of foods you feed them. If possible get your hands on live food, black worms, white worms and/or live brine shrimp. Amazon has a brine shrimp hatchery and they hatch overnight. Feed while they still have the egg sacks.

Well I know they have live brine shrimp there and I have seen them feed them but they didn’t feed these 2 in front of my so I took a guess but I’ll try to contact them and ask. Also why aren’t the male and female interacting?

 

[kevgib67]

Well I know they have live brine shrimp there and I have seen them feed them but they didn’t feed these 2 in front of my so I took a guess but I’ll try to contact them and ask. Also why aren’t the male and female interacting?

I got a male and two females in females in February and the male bullies the females. I don’t know why but the females hang together. The male is the biggest jerk in my tank but I love his colors, it makes up for his personality.

 

[Spookyclemente]

Well I know they have live brine shrimp there and I have seen them feed them but they didn’t feed these 2 in front of my so I took a guess but I’ll try to contact them and ask. Also why aren’t the male and female interacting?

I got a male and two females in females in February and the male bullies the females. I don’t know why but the females hang together. The male is the biggest jerk in my tank but I love his colors, it makes up for his personality.

What do you feed them?

 

[kevgib67]

What do you feed them?

The eat everything, I believe in diversity in an attempt to meet the fish and inverts nutritional needs. TDO pellets, flake, LFS Reef frenzy, Reef Jerky, mysis, brine, freeze dried black worms and oyster eggs on rotation.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

I started my lyretails on live brine shrimp when I first got them, that will usually get most fish eating. From there its easier to graduate to other foods. I agree to expand the menu and include other foods.