So I recently added a CBB to my system and am having trouble getting it to eat, as expected. In my area, CBBs are picked up extremely fast, so waiting to find one that was eating ferociously wasn’t an option. I had my LFS special order me one and waited a day to make sure he arrived healthy. He did not have a pinched stomach and I watched him eat mysis off of the sand, so my hopes were high. My system is a mature one, and the CBB has spent the first few days in my tank taking out my featherdusters on the rocks and pecking the rocks/sand for pods. However, the closest I’ve gotten it to eating actual foods is a clam on a half shell that it has picked up and dropped several times.
I generally feed LRS, blood worms, mysis, nori in my system. I have tried shoving frozen food into the rocks and he just swims right past it. There’s no fish causing stress to the CBB, there’s just zero interest in frozen foods and I cannot find any live foods to feed. Any suggestions? I know that his current diet in my tank isn’t sustainable and I refuse to give up on this gorgeous fish.
I generally feed LRS, blood worms, mysis, nori in my system. I have tried shoving frozen food into the rocks and he just swims right past it. There’s no fish causing stress to the CBB, there’s just zero interest in frozen foods and I cannot find any live foods to feed. Any suggestions? I know that his current diet in my tank isn’t sustainable and I refuse to give up on this gorgeous fish.