Pellets that lyretail anthias will consume?

[Miami Reef]

I need a good pellet food for my lyretail anthias - something they will actually consume!

It will be used to supplement their main diet. I’ve had the worst luck with getting my fish to eat pellets.

 

[reefz]

Mine won’t eat pellets, but will eat the exact same brand and ingredients in the flake form. I feed the omega one marine flakes.

 

[ReefCheef]

I need a good pellet food for my lyretail anthias - something they will actually consume!

It will be used to supplement their main diet. I’ve had the worst luck with getting my fish to eat pellets.

Reef Nutrition. Smallest size. Anthias have big mouths, but small throats. Cheers

 

[Miami Reef]

Reef Nutrition. Smallest size. Anthias have big mouths, but small throats. Cheers

I was just looking at the TSM Aquatics website and it says their fish eat TDO chroma boost.

 

[BVF]

My Anthias will eat Hatchery Diet, smallest size.

Hatchery Diet 1.2 mm 8oz

Use the diet developed in a real hatchery to ensure proper nutrition for your developing fish. Sustainable Aquatics Hatchery Diet was developed through years of experience and using all the products available to create the right balance for color, vigor and health. 1.2 mm Slow Sinking Pellets...

www.reeflifeaquariums.com

 

[Mikedawg]

Might try Tda Chroma Boost; mine love it

 

[Miami Reef]

Might try Tda Chroma Boost; mine love it

You have anthias? What size exactly do you use?

 

[JGT]

Mine with the Reef Nutrition and Piscine PE pellets, also Tetra flakes. I found that mixing them in with brine and mysis, eventually they eat everything.

 

[Williamson’s Reef]

I have 4 different varieties of anthias. They go crazy for this Hakari marine s. They also like the Piscine PE small pellets.

 

[hart24601]

I always had luck with new life spectrum smallest size I think 0.5mm. Took a bit of training but have used those on auto feeders for anthias for years

 

[Chrisv.]

I really like to Chroma boost for tricky feeders that like small food...but I do NOT use the smallest size for any of my fish.

To the folks saying "smallest size" are you sure you mean that? The smallest size (chroma boost A) is pellets that are 75-250 microns. Suitable to be fed to newly hatched fish and to corals.

For reference, the particle size of Reef-roids is around 150-200 microns.

 

[hart24601]

I really like to Chroma boost for tricky feeders that like small food...but I do NOT use the smallest size for any of my fish.

To the folks saying "smallest size" are you sure you mean that? The smallest size (chroma boost A) is pellets that are 75-250 microns. Suitable to be fed to newly hatched fish and to corals.

For reference, the particle size of Reef-roids is around 150-200 microns.

I do mean smallest size I’m aware of for new life spectrum pellets. .5mm or 500 micron. I use it for my adult fish too. Most eat it unless they are over 5-6” with exceptions of course.

 

[Chrisv.]

I do mean smallest size I’m aware of for new life spectrum pellets. .5mm or 500 micron. I use it for my adult fish too. Most eat it unless they are over 5-6” with exceptions of course.

Sorry-- that was specifically in reference to the Chroma boost product line! Here is a screenshot of the smaller end of their product line:

 

[hart24601]

New Life Spectrum Probiotix - Small Sinking Pellet (0.5mm - 0.75mm) 60g

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I use a couple types of NLS pellets xsmall and tdo of nearly same size which isn’t tdo smallest size:

TDO CHROMA BOOST™ X-SMALL (C1)

Several different size granules or pellets, and packages sizes are available for TDO Chroma Boost ™, excellent food for creating healthy animals and eye-popping color in a wide range of animals.

reefnutrition.com

 

[hart24601]

Sorry-- that was specifically in reference to the Chroma boost product line! Here is a screenshot of the smaller end of their product line:

Ah sure more like baby brine size or even smaller. Yeah the food for brine is crazy small.

 

[Miami Reef]

Sorry-- that was specifically in reference to the Chroma boost product line! Here is a screenshot of the smaller end of their product line:

Exactly. This is why I was skeptical of the people saying to use the smallest size of TDO.

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

My lyretail and dispar do flake and ocean nutrition #1 & #2.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Mine love both New Era pellets, and TDO pellets but really need forxen meaty foods such as LRS fish frenzy, Rods Original formula, plankton and mysis shrimp

 

[Griev]

I run an autofeeder at each end of my 200. One has a mix of TDO Chromaboost and Hikari Seaweed Extreme pellets (medium size), and the other is Sustainable Aquatics Hatchery Diet (small size). I have 9 Lyretail Anthias and they weren't really touching pellets until I started the SA Hatchery pellets. They really responded to those, and it trained them to eat the TDO pellets too. Now they're all super fat.

 

[Mikedawg]

You have anthias? What size exactly do you use?

1.7 mm