I've just added a captive bred rainfordi goby which doesn't seem to care about any of the live/frozen/flake food in the water column. I feed tdo pellets of various sizes, flake food, frozen brine and live baby brine all in rotation at different times/days. The rainfordi seems to only be interested in sifting sand. My tank is 4 months old with lots of amphipods that are larger, and copepods which I can never tell if I have enough or not. So I am trying to find ways to get the rainfordi goby to eat either nori or algae pellets, etc. Pretty much anything else in addition to whatever it can pick out of the sand.
I've seen it mildly interested in hikari algae pellets that sit on the sand bed, and also peck at a few hikari crab pellets that also sink to the sand bed, but he doesn't really sit there finishing off either of these pellets, more grazes over it, gives it a few extra pecks then moves on. I'm also currently trying to get it to eat nori rubber banded to a small rock in its grazing area, which it doesn't pay any attention to.
Just curious if anyone has suggestions on keeping this rainfordi goby fed beyond the amphipods and copepods in the sand. Again, I know I have a decent amount of both pods, but I just don't know if it is enough to fully sustain the rainfordi solely on that in a 170. I also have a tail spot that seems to peck at the rocks for copepods.
I've seen it mildly interested in hikari algae pellets that sit on the sand bed, and also peck at a few hikari crab pellets that also sink to the sand bed, but he doesn't really sit there finishing off either of these pellets, more grazes over it, gives it a few extra pecks then moves on. I'm also currently trying to get it to eat nori rubber banded to a small rock in its grazing area, which it doesn't pay any attention to.
Just curious if anyone has suggestions on keeping this rainfordi goby fed beyond the amphipods and copepods in the sand. Again, I know I have a decent amount of both pods, but I just don't know if it is enough to fully sustain the rainfordi solely on that in a 170. I also have a tail spot that seems to peck at the rocks for copepods.