feeding picky gobies

[Christyf5]

Hey all. I'm hoping somebody can help me out here. I have a 29G reef tank with 2 fire gobies, a clown goby (brownish color), and a red headed goby. My problem is that I haven't had much luck in the feeding department. I have great success with brine shrimp with all gobies, flake and pellet with the fire gobies but not the other two (the redhead is fairly new and is just settling in but seems to be hot for the brine shrimp but no flake so far). I just tried Prime Reef which of course the fire gobies are all over but the clown goby is just so damn picky. I don't know whether its the taste or the size (Prime reef seems to be fairly big chunks that have been mashed around but not cut up). My next great idea is to take all the prime reef and run it thru a food processor or with a knife and chop it into smaller pieces. I don't want to just feed brine shrimp all the time because even though I coat it with that zoecon stuff it still isn't all that nutritious for the fish. Anyone have success with any other types of food with small gobies??

Thanks

Christy

 

[nala]

I have had great luck getting them to eat live black worms

That's all my Green striped Clown would eat for 6 months. HTH...

 

[danmhippo]

I have quite a population of pods in the tank. Though I never saw them eat, the smaller gobies must have ate something. Otherwise it won't last 6 months as of today.

Now, Black worms? I tried once and as soon as it hits salt water, the live worm instantly becames dead worm. I never do it again.

Oh, not to mention, my tank has DSB and from the side I can see a lot of spaghetti worms. may be that's what the gobies are feeding on.

[ August 17, 2001: Message edited by: danmhippo ]

 

[2poor2reef]

I've had good luck with frozen mysis. My understanding is that they are significantly more nutritious than brine shrimp. Once they will eat frozen brine they are likely to take frozen mysis also. I soak mine in selcon also to add to the nutrition.