They all love the feeder

[Paul B]

I know I posted this before but I just love this thing.
I have been at this for a long time but I get all excited when I see the animals enjoying themselves, especially if it is with something that I created.
Just about all of my fish eat from this live baby brine feeder even though they have other things they could be eating. The thing was created for a skinny young female mandarin but it has been so successful that I use it every day. Many of the fish hang around it even when there is nothing in it. I have successfully used variations of this method to feed moorish Idols and seahorses. Fish easily learn where the food is and most smaller fish thrive on living new born brine shrimp. There is even a couple of large gobies in there that swim up for huge mouthfulls.
For people that have certain fish like mandarins, small pipefish or scooter bleenies and are worried they don't get enough to eat should try this. It is just a net stretched over a container with a tube going to the surface so live baby shrimp can be added. It really works great as this video shows.

 

[ritter6788]

Very nice! It's cool watching difficult to feed fish sit there and eat together like that.

 

[Paul B]

They don't know they are difficult, they just think of themselves as excentric

 

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That is really cool, they all eat from it at once, awesome!

 

[Paul B]

There is usually a lot more fish eating from it but I took that picture as soon as I filled it with baby brine. There are two mandarins, the red scooter, the pipefish, copperband, 3 gobies and 2 cardinals that eat from it as well as the grass shrimp, I don't know how many of them are in there, I just collect them and throw them in.

It was originally made for this little female mandarin who was very skinny when I got her. Now she is fat and everyone gets into the act.

 

[Orbela]

How do you make it?

 

[Paul B]

I wrote about it here. http://www.saltwatersmarts.com/diy-target-feeder-mandarinfish-pipefish-2804/