My pipefish finally takes frozen and pellets!

Chef.ryan · Mar 2, 2015

I finally got my blue-stripe pipefish to eat tiny clownfish pellets. It started eating the frozen mysis that the seahorses didn't catch on its own. I noticed it sampling the little pieces that float by so I tried "spot feeding" her. Now she comes to the to with the rest of the community to beg for food. ( Midas Benny, 2 clowns, large angel, Pygmy angel, neon dottyback, 2 ruby head wrasses, and a trio of zebra dart fish)
I try to feed pellets first to fill them up so the seahorses have a better chance at mysis but I noticed the pipefish would sample the pellets and then recently kept them down! It's been 4 days now and in spite of plenty of pods to eat, it is still eating pellets!

Tom@HaslettMI · Mar 12, 2015

Chef.ryan said:
I finally got my blue-stripe pipefish to eat tiny clownfish pellets. It started eating the frozen mysis that the seahorses didn't catch on its own. I noticed it sampling the little pieces that float by so I tried "spot feeding" her. Now she comes to the to with the rest of the community to beg for food. ( Midas Benny, 2 clowns, large angel, Pygmy angel, neon dottyback, 2 ruby head wrasses, and a trio of zebra dart fish)
I try to feed pellets first to fill them up so the seahorses have a better chance at mysis but I noticed the pipefish would sample the pellets and then recently kept them down! It's been 4 days now and in spite of plenty of pods to eat, it is still eating pellets!

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Congratulations! That is so cool. What type of pellets is she eating?

Tom

NanaReefer · Mar 12, 2015

She definitely looks pleasingly plump

Kudos!

Chef.ryan · Mar 12, 2015

I feed them Spectrum. The tiny size.

_divad · Apr 22, 2015

Congratulations on the blue stripe eating prepared foods! Very very cool!

Nice macro algae too!. I love Botryocladia (grape alage)!

revhtree · Apr 22, 2015

Awesome and congrats!

SantaMonicaHelp · Apr 28, 2015

That's so great!! Congrats!!
+1 on the grape algae too.

-YK

4FordFamily · Apr 28, 2015

Awesome! I am equally excited, my moorish idol I bought on divers den ate everything I put in front of him within twenty minutes of addition! In cupramine I might add!