What can i feed lennardi?

[PegasisR]

My lennardi wrasse is real finicky... first day home she ate a tiny morsel of fish frenzy but since has not eaten any food except stuff foraged off the sand bed and rocks. What can i feed her to entice a feeding response? I fed her calanus, fish frenzy, pe mysis and tdo pellets...

 

[ndrwater]

Mastik seems to get finicky eaters to start eating.
Live brine or black worms usually works too

 

[PegasisR]

Mastik seems to get finicky eaters to start eating.
Live brine or black worms usually works too

Okay ill get some masstick! Ive got some brine on the way too to wean him onto frozen. Is there a recipe to get the masstick to that consistency that can be used on rocks?

 

[ndrwater]

Okay ill get some masstick! Ive got some brine on the way too to wean him onto frozen. Is there a recipe to get the masstick to that consistency that can be used on rocks?

Just mix as is noted on the package. It mixes up pretty thick and sticky

 

[mfinn]

Any stores in your area stock Tigger Pods?
Or live brine?
Anything live.

 

[PegasisR]

Any stores in your area stock Tigger Pods?
Or live brine?
Anything live.

I can get them but the dang new years have haulted shipping them in till after new years...

 

[mfinn]

I can get them but the dang new years have haulted shipping them in till after new years...

It sucks right now with both xmas and new years in the middle of the week.
I usually try to have Tigger Pods on hand for new wrasses.

One other trick I've used is by using Hikari Mysis in the cubes. It's usually smaller ( used to be) than the mysis in the flat packs. Take a small defrosted amount and put it in the tank in front of a powerhead, so that it shoots across the tank.
Makes the fish think it's alive. Sometimes this works in place of live food.

Brine hatches fairly fast. Maybe some newly hatched brine?
Good jerky movements.

 

[mfinn]

The lenardi wrasse would be my bucket list fish.

 

[PegasisR]

It sucks right now with both xmas and new years in the middle of the week.
I usually try to have Tigger Pods on hand for new wrasses.

One other trick I've used is by using Hikari Mysis in the cubes. It's usually smaller ( used to be) than the mysis in the flat packs. Take a small defrosted amount and put it in the tank in front of a powerhead, so that it shoots across the tank.
Makes the fish think it's alive. Sometimes this works in place of live food.

Brine hatches fairly fast. Maybe some newly hatched brine?
Good jerky movements.

I will give that a try! i might be getting some black worms tomorrow aswell Definitely get a lennardi, theyre really full of personality

 

[PegasisR]

The lenardi wrasse would be my bucket list fish.

She ate the mysis through the powerhead!

 

[mfinn]

She ate the mysis through the powerhead!

Hopefully it will continue.
I use this method for all my tanks. Display tanks and quarantine tanks.
Make the fish chase the food as it would in the ocean.

 

[PegasisR]

Hopefully it will continue.
I use this method for all my tanks. Display tanks and quarantine tanks.
Make the fish chase the food as it would in the ocean.

She ate when i fed twice but im gonna have live food on hand just incase aswell!

 

[PegasisR]

Hopefully it will continue.
I use this method for all my tanks. Display tanks and quarantine tanks.
Make the fish chase the food as it would in the ocean.

What is your method on weaning finicky feeders?

 

[mfinn]

What is your method on weaning finicky feeders?

If I'm expecting ( usually a wrasse), I'll pre-order a couple bottles Tigger pods and dig out my brine shrimp hatchery.
I also keep PE Calanus and Cyclops on hand. My tiny bit of nutrmar ova is now hopelessly freezer burnt.
I also use ROE as a daily food, as well as Hikari frozen mysis.
But first, I go with Tigger Pods in the morning and one of the frozen egg mixtures in the afternoon.
Usually once they open their mouths to go after Tigger Pods, it's not long before they sample prepared foods.
I stay with Tigger Pods in the morning until it's gone, but usually after 2-3 days they are on pretty much everything else.
I feed 3 very light feedings per day.
Once they are totally on prepared food, I'll cut back to a light early lunch and a bigger dinner.
But to me it seems the live Tigger Pods are the key.

 

[PegasisR]

If I'm expecting ( usually a wrasse), I'll pre-order a couple bottles Tigger pods and dig out my brine shrimp hatchery.
I also keep PE Calanus and Cyclops on hand. My tiny bit of nutrmar ova is now hopelessly freezer burnt.
I also use ROE as a daily food, as well as Hikari frozen mysis.
But first, I go with Tigger Pods in the morning and one of the frozen egg mixtures in the afternoon.
Usually once they open their mouths to go after Tigger Pods, it's not long before they sample prepared foods.
I stay with Tigger Pods in the morning until it's gone, but usually after 2-3 days they are on pretty much everything else.
I feed 3 very light feedings per day.
Once they are totally on prepared food, I'll cut back to a light early lunch and a bigger dinner.
But to me it seems the live Tigger Pods are the key.

oh okay! Ill keep some on hand for sure! Which frozen egg do the finicky wrasse find interest in most? Also would seeding the tank in copepods be an issue with finicky feeders eating prepared foods?

 

[mfinn]

oh okay! Ill keep some on hand for sure! Which frozen egg do the finicky wrasse find interest in most? Also would seeding the tank in copepods be an issue with finicky feeders eating prepared foods?

I add pods from Algaebarn to my display tank. but not my quarantine tank. One of the main tasks I find by using the quarantine tank is to get them switched over to prepared foods.
Then once they are in a display tank they will hunt and forage like they do in nature. As long as they get their majority of food from prepared stuff, they should do fine.
As far as the frozen stuff, you just have to experiment.
I find they all seem to like ROE which is refrigerated.