Help! Must get Royal Gramma to Eat Pellets

[NanoReefer2025]

Hello,
So I’m going on a vacation next week for four days. I have already found a “fish sitter”, so to speak, but he’s pretty inexperienced, so I told him to feed my fish pellets instead of mysis. My clownfish eat pellets just fine, but that’s part of the problem. Before my royal gramma gets a chance to go for a pellet, they have all either sunk to the bottom or have been eaten by the clownfish. How do fix this? I don’t want to come back from vacation and find my favorite fish dead or malnourished beyond repair. Would flakes be better than pellets in this case, since they don’t sink as fast?

 

[ajm83]

Doubt he'll have problems in 4 days unless he's really skinny.

I got mine to eat pellets and flake by mixing them in with his favourite frozen.

 

[dedragon]

4 days isnt long, it will be fine. You can always cut up some frozen and put them in a plastic bags to make it easier to feed

 

[NanoReefer2025]

Doubt he'll have problems in 4 days unless he's really skinny.

I got mine to eat pellets and flake by mixing them in with his favourite frozen.

4 days isnt long, it will be fine. You can always cut up some frozen and put them in a plastic bags to make it easier to feed

Thank you all for the quick responses. I think I might try flakes, and if I can’t get him eating them by then, I’ll just put a bit of frozen food in small plastic cups or something.

 

[ReefFrenzy]

Thank you all for the quick responses. I think I might try flakes, and if I can’t get him eating them by then, I’ll just put a bit of frozen food in small plastic cups or something.

Disposable salad dressing cups work great, or if you don't want the waste you can find a reusable tray with compartments for days of the week like people use for their daily medicine. You can mix frozen, nori and pellets in the same cup and mark the day of the week on each for your tank sitter.

 

[Jbell370]

4 days will be fine. My guy went missing, couldn't find him for the life of me. 6 months later I changed my sump and as I was draining it, out from the rocks in the sump he appeared. He was a little worse for wear, popped him in the main display and happy to say he is still around fat and bright.

 

[NanoReefer2025]

Disposable salad dressing cups work great, or if you don't want the waste you can find a reusable tray with compartments for days of the week like people use for their daily medicine. You can mix frozen, nori and pellets in the same cup and mark the day of the week on each for your tank sitter.

Thanks! Great idea. I might try this.