Anthias feeding

[winkkle]

What do you guys feed your anthias? I know they eat zooplankton and smaller food particles but Ive been feeding mysis and rods food and they seem to eat the smallest pieces and i dont see how that would be enough. I guess i should feed 3-4 times daily in small doses.

 

[merkywater]

PE Mysis and the smaller mysis I feed 3 times a day. (fat and healthy)

 

[winkkle]

thanks

 

[liverock27]

I feed mine PE Mysis and even the smallest female will take the larger pieces. I also feed Rod's food sometimes, but the male doesn't pay much attention to it. I feed twice a day.

 

[crobattt]

I'd love to have anthias, but i don't think i'd have the time to feed so often during the day :c

 

[redstang]

How do you guys handle vacations with fish that need multiple feedings per day?

 

[hud3339]

RedStang;729368 wrote: How do you guys handle vacations with fish that need multiple feedings per day?

Friends lol

 

[winkkle]

cool i know who to call now.

 

[hud3339]

winkkle;729373 wrote: cool i know who to call now.

LOL you know I got ya

 

[liverock27]

My father in law lives down the road and enjoys coming over to feed the fish while we are gone.

 

[winkkle]

Three amigos

 

[gthockey18]

I feed my Lyretails Vpure Spirulina Brine Shrimp/Mysis Mix (Flake), frozen mysis and Rods food two times a day.

 

[ichthyoid]

Mine eat small Formula One Pellets too.

 

[morganatlanta]

I've had a trio of Bartlett's around 6 months. I feed small pellets from an autofeeder 4x daily. Hikari mysis occassionaly. Hikari is smaller than the PE mysis. Everything in the tank seems to like Hikari better.

 

[winkkle]

I feed hikari as well

 

[silver surfer]

Cyclopeeze.

 

[crewdawg1981]

get one of those $30 eheim autofeeders. Set it and forget it .

I feed mine once or twice a day from the feeder (spectrum pellets) and then supplement that later in the evening with a cube of cycolpeeze, hikari mysis, pe mysis or rods.

 

[winkkle]

I've never fed pellets so I wonder how my other fish would take them?

 

[crewdawg1981]

When I bought my dispars from Rit back in February last year they went crazy for some of those micro pellets whenever Jaime fed them, so I kept that up when i brought them home.

Heck... pellets were the only thing my powder blue would eat for a month before he started picking at rods and mysis.

 

[liverock27]

My anthias pay no attention to flake or pellets. Maybe I need to try a new brand. Any recommendations?