Anthias throwing up mysis/brine

[Calpoly2103]

My anthias keeps eating its food and then throwing it up, eating food throwing up. And this process continues for about a minute till all the food is gone. Any idea what's going on? Is he sick? If so, my other two clowns will likely catch it.

 

[KrisReef]

Sounds like it is having difficulty chewing and swallowing the food. SInce it is eating it will probably be ok. With time it might even learn to "chew properly" as my dear mother used to yell at her two sons.

 

[HotRocks]

My anthias keeps eating its food and then throwing it up, eating food throwing up. And this process continues for about a minute till all the food is gone. Any idea what's going on? Is he sick? If so, my other two clowns will likely catch it.

How long have you had the fish? I have had newly arrived anthias do this, some Wrasse do the same thing.

 

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How long have you had this particular fish?? Anthias eat smaller food in their natural habitat, it can take a while for them to acclimate to bigger food. Also what kind of anthia

 

[HotRocks]

How long have you had this particular fish?? Anthias eat smaller food in their natural habitat, it can take a while for them to acclimate to bigger food. Also what kind of anthia

This too^

They absolutely love things like calanus and cyclops which are very small bits.

 

[Calpoly2103]

Thanks everyone for your responses. I've had the lyretail anthias for about 2 weeks. I feed my smaller clowns hikari frozen mysis/brine so I just upped the serving. I didnt know about them eating smaller foods because she refuses to eat PE pellets

 

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Yes I would start feeding smaller foods and know that it will eventually eat the bigger stuff.

 

[JMM744]

Try this, take the mysis and use a razor blade to chop it small. Also get some calanus if you can. They love it. My dispar still try to eat stuff too big and spit it back out and then eat it again. Sometimes they get it down, sometimes not.