Coral Beauty Diet

Jim Heenan · Mar 14, 2018

What are you guys feed your Coral Beauty? I have mine in QT and I haven't seen it eat much (Marine S, Emerald Delight, Mysis).

Crabs McJones · Mar 14, 2018

Jim Heenan said:
What are you guys feed your Coral Beauty? I have mine in QT and I haven't seen it eat much (Marine S, Emerald Delight, Mysis).

Do you have any algae strips? they love to graze on algae.

Jim Heenan · Mar 14, 2018

crabs_mcjones said:
Do you have any algae strips? they love to graze on algae.

I do.

sfin52 · Mar 14, 2018

Sheets of algea is one food that my coral beauty loves and anything I put into the tank. Pellets, flakes, brine, mysis, spit (jsk) you get the point.

Deezill · Mar 14, 2018

Same here my Coral beauty eats like a hog and Marine S, Emerald Delight, Mysis are all his favorites. Actually now that I think about it
pellets and flakes are too. My coral beauty would eat anything. I have never seen him turn away from food. Now my yellow tang on the other hand will not eat pellets or LRS reef frenzy. he snubs a lot of food. The coral beauty is like Mikey.

Claus84 · Mar 15, 2018

Mine won't touch algae sheets but loves various types of flake food and enriched mysis and brine

Jim Heenan · Mar 15, 2018

Who knew this fish was so persnickety?

Deezill · Mar 15, 2018

Jim Heenan said:
Who knew this fish was so persnickety?

I think what might be happening might be a role reversal. Where as you normally break the fish in he is breaking you in. lol.

Jim Heenan · Mar 15, 2018

Deezill said:
I think what might be happening might be a role reversal. Where as you normally break the fish in he is breaking you in. lol.

It's a theory [emoji6]

User1 · Mar 15, 2018

Mine eats everything but the kitchen sink. Really. Brine, mysis shrimp. Pellet, flake. Black worms and some frozen cube emerald green algae deal that the name escapes me. Really, grade A garbage disposal.

Jim Heenan · Mar 15, 2018

I think I found out why my CB isn't eating. I had a good look at him today and looks like he's got white spots on his face (possibly Ich?). Thank god he's in QT. So, what's the proffered treatment? Thank you my good reef people!

Deezill · Mar 15, 2018

Prazipro maybe but make sure it's ich. Ich looks like someone e sprinkled table salt on your fish. I am glad he is in QT TOO. when I first started I lost a few fish to ich because I did not know what it was and did not have a community to ask because I did not know about a reefing community. If it is ich try fresh water dips also try hypo salinity drop the salinity of your QT to like 1.009 or 10.

RichReef · Mar 15, 2018

Mine eats anything you drop in tank. Even salt creep flakes.

RichReef · Mar 15, 2018

Mine eats anything you put in the water. Even the flakes of salt creep. Not just tastes them, finishes them off.

Deezill · Mar 15, 2018

RichReef said:
Mine eats anything you put in the water. Even the flakes of salt creep. Not just tastes them, finishes them off.

LOL this made my day. I can imagine a greedy Coral Beauty eating salt creep. Talk about high blood pressure lol. Good Stuff.

HomeSlizzice · Mar 16, 2018

As weird and simple as it sounds, I’ve never had any angel turn down NLS Thera A

van7271 · Mar 16, 2018

Had the same problem. They like to graze so if there is no algae growing try some algae strips or wafers, mine preferred the green. Once mine got comfortable competing for food with other fish he is unstoppable. Eats what ever is put in the tank.

van7271 · Mar 16, 2018

Had the same problem. They like to graze a lot so if you don’t have any algae growing in your tank it can be hard to get them comfortable. Try some algae strips or algae wafers, mine preferred the green. After he got comfortable competing for food he is unstoppable. He eats everything put in the tank.