Wrasse Feeding: Favorite foods & feeding frequency for active wrasse?

[Fishfreak2009]

My tanks all eat 4-5x daily.

A mix of:
Mysis
Rod's pacific plankton
LRS reef frenzy
LRS fertility frenzy
Clam on the half shell (for the FOWLR)
Nori (for the FOWLR)
Live Caulerpa (for the FOWLR)
Krill (FOWLR)
Rod's predator blend (FOWLR)
Finely grated frozen squid for all the tanks
Live phyto (daily)
Live copepods 2-3x weekly
Frozen fish eggs
Oyster eggs

 

[OrionN]

For flashers and fairies, the more food the better.

 

[OrionN]

 

[Floyd-]

I feed 1 time a day frozen food but I also work at algaebarn so I put roughly 2 gallons of pods in my tank a week

2 Gallons a week?! WOW. I have never put pods into my tank.

 

[Piscans]

i make sure i feed the pods, so the wrasse has food all day long.

 

[StubbyAcro]

If you only feed your wrasse once per day, then it's better to give it to people that actually care about the animal. It's irresponsible since in the wild they eat almost constantly.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

I was feeding twice a day when I had wrasses

 

[immaman2011]

I was feeding twice a day when I had wrasses

Same. My yellow coris wrasse doesn't seem to eat much in any one sitting. So I feed the same schedule as all my other fish.

 

[Sink_or_Swim]

Currently I just have one wrasse (melanurus), but I've seen him eat some of everything I feed, which typically includes:

Rod's frozen (original and herbivore blend)
ArctiPods
Two Little Fishies purple sea veggies
Ocean Nutrition green marine algae
Hikari sinking algae wafers (I alternate soaking these in AminOmega, Selcon, and garlic - my tomini tang and wrasse go nuts for these)
TDO pellets
NYOS true algae pellets

I feed 2x per day. The wrasse seems to prefer the small to medium bits of mysis, the TDO pellets, and believe it or not the algae wafers - he picks them up and carries them around, taking little bites, lol. I'm sure he snacks on amhipods too.
Also he occasionally helps himself to some escargot.

 

[homer1475]

I feed 3 times a day.

Morning is an autofeeder with TDO chromoboost, NLS algae max, and regular NLS marine fish. Afternoon it's PE mysis, and PE calanus(agree the price is getting a little high). Evening it's LRS reef frenzy, pellets again, healthy dose of live phytoplankton.

I feed 10 fish total, 5 being wrasses.

 

[Labridaedicted]

Ok. Heres my run down. (A more detailed breakdown is in my build thread)

-3x daily- (Reef Nutrition foods are fed pretty much hourly cycling through the varieties using my auto feeder set up)
Mysis Feast (noon, 3pm, 6pm)
Beta Brine (1pm, 4pm, 7pm)
R.O.E. (2pm, 5pm, 8pm)

-Broadcast feed 1 large feeding daily-
Selcon soaked PE Mysis
NLF spectrum Pellets

2 Gourmet Grazers daily with red and green sheets (total of about 1 full size sheet daily)

Plank Autofeeder goes hourly during the daylight period (11:30-8:30)

-1 x daily -
Live Brine that I culture and feed daily

So total of 22 times daily I believe?

 

[OscarHaglund]

Technically 4 times per day. Frozen in the morning and night and pellets from feeder twice per day when im at work.
However my leopard is lazy and gets up after i leave for work so he misses the morning feed. He is also very slow in eating pellets and during the time he finishes one, my juvenile foxface has eaten 20 instead of eating my hair algae

 

[lonepalm99]

I feed once a day fronzen. Combination of medium size chucks of shrimp, clams, etc and frozen mysis with spirulina. I do feed pretty heavy though.

 

[DieHardPhotog-Reefer]

I have a Melanurus Wrasse. He eats everything. He gets Clams, Gut Loaded Brine, & Mysis. He also picks at the Cyclops I feed for the Anthias, Dartfish, and Cardinals. He even eats the Nori I put in for the Tang!

Mostly once a day. Two or three times if I'm home all day. There are a boat load of Pods and such in the tank & he's always on the hunt. Judging by the empty shells, I think he also munches an occasional snail. He's a pig.

@ReefGeezer I'm curious which type of snails the Melanurus is eating. I ask because since adding a redfin wrasse to our tank, I've noticed fewer and fewer nassarius snails living in the sandbed.

 

[ReefGeezer]

@ReefGeezer I'm curious which type of snails the Melanurus is eating. I ask because since adding a redfin wrasse to our tank, I've noticed fewer and fewer nassarius snails living in the sandbed.

Nassarius snails... Hermit Crabs too. He doesn't seem to bother Urchins or Turbo Snails. It seems like he just knocks off one every once in a while.

 

[Dabcrusher]

2 Gallons a week?! WOW. I have never put pods into my tank.

I have been for close to 3 years now . I rarely even have to clean the glass

 

[Floyd-]

I have been for close to 3 years now . I rarely even have to clean the glass

At 2 gallons a week thats almost 320 gallons of pods into your tank?! Geez!!!

 

[Dabcrusher]

At 2 gallons a week thats almost 320 gallons of pods into your tank?! Geez!!!only had the current tank i have now a cade 1200 for a year and a half.