sen5241b
Reef enthusiast
My Mandarin Dragonette is consistently eating Blood worms. (They're not gobies). At first, I played with the flow switch to make the worms wiggle but now the fish eats them after they fall on the sand.
Mandarin Dragonette eating Blood worms
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Hiker4twenty
Reef enthusiast
Good stuff. I recently added blood worms to my mix of food for my fish and they all love them.
lilduud
Reefing newb
hmmm great job with training him to eat something other than live however you should also try getting him to eat enhanced brine shrimp or even mysis shrimp as he will become malnourished on blood worms alone.... also boosting pods never hurts ;)
i have zappa [my mandarin] on enhanced brine and mysis and he loves it now! wolfs it down as many times as i feed him through out the day which ive found helps to beef him up on non live food... theyre digestive tract is made to continuously process food through out the day. i also have pod cultures for him to snack on between feedings.. this is all simply IMO and i dont mean to sound preachy. :)
great job starting his diet training though! good luck!
i have zappa [my mandarin] on enhanced brine and mysis and he loves it now! wolfs it down as many times as i feed him through out the day which ive found helps to beef him up on non live food... theyre digestive tract is made to continuously process food through out the day. i also have pod cultures for him to snack on between feedings.. this is all simply IMO and i dont mean to sound preachy. :)
great job starting his diet training though! good luck!
d2mini
Reef enthusiast
ORA is now breeding/selling Spotted Mandarins that eat prepared foods.
motorcyclereefer
I am Graffiti Petey
My mandarin loved eating blood worms.
yote
In Memoriam
Blood worms are great for getting a lot of fish to eating frozen.
Even copperband butterflies will go after blood worms when they wont touch anything else.
Even copperband butterflies will go after blood worms when they wont touch anything else.
Bifferwine
I am a girl
That's weird. None of my fish will eat bloodworms. None of them. I use bloodworms to target feed my corals because if I give them to the fish, they go to waste.
yote
In Memoriam
Maybe your using a different kind of blood worms? :mrgreen:
Bifferwine
I am a girl
All I know is that I bought a huge box of them, and my fish hated them, so now my corals are stuck eating bloodworms for the next 6 months!! :lol:
sen5241b
Reef enthusiast
Bifferwine
I am a girl
Yes, they are frozen bloodworms that came in a styrofoam box.
sen5241b
Reef enthusiast
That is too weird --ALL my fish chow on bloodworms.
