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Anyone have any luck feeding the small TDO pellets to a smallish Blue Green Chromis?
I just got this (pretty!) Chromis from my LFS a few days ago and he comes from a different source than all of my other fish. Other fish immediately chow on the Chroma boost. This Chromis is not.
He initially ignored the TDO. Now he eats it, but he gets it in his mouth and various things happen. Either he spits it out, or he crunches the pellet and most or all of it crumbles in pieces that go in the water column. Other times he crunches the pellets and seems to eat some of it and lets the rest float away. He doesn't necessarily go after the food floating free that has been crumbled.
The Chromis eats big mysis shrimp heartily- it sends him into an fighter jet mode, racing to gobble it all up (kinda cool to watch!).
The TDO issues certainly do not seem to be a size problem. Indeed, he's the biggest of all my fish and the other fish can tackle the TDO small pellets, even if sometimes they have to chomp it a bit and go after the crumbles. The mysis shrimp the Chromis eats are usually much bigger than the TDO pellets.
Any advice to get this guy eating the pellets?
I just got this (pretty!) Chromis from my LFS a few days ago and he comes from a different source than all of my other fish. Other fish immediately chow on the Chroma boost. This Chromis is not.
He initially ignored the TDO. Now he eats it, but he gets it in his mouth and various things happen. Either he spits it out, or he crunches the pellet and most or all of it crumbles in pieces that go in the water column. Other times he crunches the pellets and seems to eat some of it and lets the rest float away. He doesn't necessarily go after the food floating free that has been crumbled.
The Chromis eats big mysis shrimp heartily- it sends him into an fighter jet mode, racing to gobble it all up (kinda cool to watch!).
The TDO issues certainly do not seem to be a size problem. Indeed, he's the biggest of all my fish and the other fish can tackle the TDO small pellets, even if sometimes they have to chomp it a bit and go after the crumbles. The mysis shrimp the Chromis eats are usually much bigger than the TDO pellets.
Any advice to get this guy eating the pellets?
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