25 moorish idols

Pablo Tepoot · Nov 17, 2019

My actual tank dimensions are 30"WX36"HX96"L, 6" fit inside the hood. So technically it should be 448,831169 gallons. I bought it as a 500 gallons tank, I didn't even bother to double checked the accuracy.

Jase4224 · Nov 18, 2019

Hi Pablo, I have a mix of NLS Thera A, NLS Algae Max and Vitalis marine. My wrasses love this mix but my bangaii cardinals reject it. What would you recommend to get fish eating pellets?

I’ve tried soaking in garlic but made no difference.

Pablo Tepoot · Nov 18, 2019

Jase4224 said:
Hi Pablo, I have a mix of NLS Thera A, NLS Algae Max and Vitalis marine. My wrasses love this mix but my bangaii cardinals reject it. What would you recommend to get fish eating pellets?

I’ve tried soaking in garlic but made no difference.

There are some fish that simply refused to eat any commercially prepared dried food. Banggai cardinal is one of them. In the past, I have trained lionfish, eels, grouper...etc. to eat NLS, but it takes too much effort. Now a days, I do not keep fish that are obligatory predators or coral eating fish. I made an informercial video 18 years ago about our food, in the video you can see lion fish chowed down on NLS. Just in case if you like to watch it, here is the link:

NeonRabbit221B · Nov 18, 2019

Nice!

Oddly I worked about 1/4 mile from the Spectrum plant in Blacksburg for 5 years before moving. Would have loved to see but hasn't into the hobby back then.

Sea MunnKey · Nov 18, 2019

Moorish Idols are one of the coolest specimen of fish to keep in a very large system. Awesome to know NLS is the actual food to feed these guys!!

Keep up the excellent work Pablo!!

. ;Woot

n21benson · Nov 18, 2019

Pablo Tepoot said:
Just to share that I kept 25 moorish idols for 18 months and thriving. To the best of my knowledge the only other group were kept in a 6.3 million gallon of water with whale shark in Georgia Aquarium.
https://www.facebook.com/aquapremium...dpK4nI&fref=nf

Amazing! Congratulations on the fish and NLS!

Hal3134 · Jan 28, 2020

Pablo, what size NLS pellets do you feed the moorish idols? And which variety of pellets? I'm planning on getting a moorish idol soon and would like to give it every opportunity to thrive.

Paul B · Jan 28, 2020

Very nice Pablo. I like the fact that you found a no heat way to add Pro Biotics.
This should be a very good food, thanks for the work you put into this.

4FordFamily · Jan 28, 2020

Beautiful, I've heard they do best in "larger" groups. Not so well in pairs.

Feet4Fish · Jan 28, 2020

Where does it become a larger group? 5,7 higher???

Pablo Tepoot · Jan 30, 2020

Hal3134 said:
Pablo, what size NLS pellets do you feed the moorish idols? And which variety of pellets? I'm planning on getting a moorish idol soon and would like to give it every opportunity to thrive.

This is an update on my moorish idols. I took this video tonight- Jan. 30, 2020. Any variety of NLS will do the job. The best pellet should be 1mm or 2mm.

Pablo Tepoot · Jan 30, 2020

Paul B said:
Very nice Pablo. I like the fact that you found a no heat way to add Pro Biotics.
This should be a very good food, thanks for the work you put into this.

Mical · Jan 30, 2020

Pablo Tepoot said:
This is an update on my moorish idols. I took this video tonight- Jan. 30, 2020. Any variety of NLS will do the job. The best pellet should be 1mm or 2mm.

Awesome

Pablo Tepoot · Jan 30, 2020

Unfortunately, most hobbyist don't know probiotic bacteria spore will not survive more than 60 degree celsius. All conventional fish food manufacturing required 100+ degree celsius and in the process all the bacteria are destroy. They might add probiotic prior to manufacturing, but at the end of the process 0% of Bactria survive.

scchase · Jan 30, 2020

For the first month the only thing mine would eat was NLS, was mixed with mysis for some other fish so it finally picked up on them as well.

Pablo Tepoot · Jan 30, 2020

Feet4Fish said:
Where does it become a larger group? 5,7 higher???

Moorish idols are extremely aggressive toward their own kind. You are better off keeping one only. 2 or 3 will definitely ended up killing each other. 7 will definitely consider a large group.

Skynyrd Fish · Jan 30, 2020

Thank you for that awesome video. I had an idol for a few years. One of my favorite fish for sure. Btw I feed your pellets every day! Thnx.

Pablo Tepoot · Jan 30, 2020

scchase said:
For the first month the only thing mine would eat was NLS, was mixed with mysis for some other fish so it finally picked up on them as well.

you are better off feeding NLS only, since it is a very nutrient dense food. I am not trying to promote my food, I am just letting you know the facts based on my experience.