Going to try to entice my longnosed hawk to eat something dry; suggestions?

[davidinga]

I have a longnosed hawkfish that I would love to get to something/anything dry as I have an autofeeder that I use for one of my daily feedings that everyone eats from <u>except</u> the hawk. I know its a longshot to get him to eat anything dry but what would you suggest? I have some Marine Omega One flake food that he grabs but then spits out so at least he will try it already; maybe just a different flake? I have nls pellets that he completely ignores so it would probably be best to stick with flakes or something freeze dried perhaps?

 

[mcphock]

In the wild, their primary diet is crustaceans. I'd say your best bet is freeze dried here.

 

[ralph atl]

Live foods or frozen

Live Blackworms, fortified live brine

Frozen:
Nutramar Ova and Hikari Mysis

 

[davidinga]

mysterybox;917133 wrote: Live foods or frozen

Live Blackworms, fortified live brine

Frozen:
Nutramar Ova and Hikari Mysis

Ya he already eats the crap out of frozen food....

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[davidinga]

I found some mysis flake food; has anyone tried that before?

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[bobz]

I have used Vpure Mysis Flake food from LIFE Aquarium Foods. Fish seemed to take them quickly. My Long-nosed never would eat anything except frozen unfortunately. good luck.

 

[davidinga]

I bought some bulk freeze dried mysis off ebay and he loves it! Awesomeness!

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[saltloco]

Try mysis. Mine eats dry but started on mysis.

 

[davidinga]

saltloco;920376 wrote: Try mysis. Mine eats dry but started on mysis.

Yeah he's eating frozen mysis great. Just got him going on freeze dried mysis. Gonna try mysis flakes next I think...

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[saltloco]

Oh cool. My bad I missed that. Mine actually eats pellets but I can tell he doesn't like them as much. Lol.

 

[davidinga]

Wow that'd be awesome if he would eat pellets. He has never tried the pellets yet only tried flakes

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