Pellet inclined anthias

[Komerider]

Hi guys. How's everyone's experience when getting various types of anthias brought home from lfs to eat pellets ?

 

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[stormrider]

I had a sun burst anthias for 3-4 months, shown no interest in pellets even when it was starved for days.

[JiaEn]

In my experience,  Randall's anthias takes pellet readily. But what matters most is the size of the pellet,  as well as the odour. 

So far,  my pellet eating anthias are: evansi,  carberryi,  borbonious, 

Tuka and pascalus pecks at pellets. But they are too small for me to be 100% sure. 

[Uask4it]

My 2pcs of Sunburst Anthias take only Mysis Shrimp, not interested in dry food.

[Solo77]

Purple queen is one of the hardest. Sunburst, sunset , etc are shy type and are hard unless tank dont have agressive fish. Barlett, blue eye, etc are almost always ready for pellet.

[sanjaypills55]

Have 4 Blue eye Anthias since 2 years, no problems feeding, been eating tdo pellets since day one.

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[harvin6]

Been Keeping male blue eyed anthias for 2 weeks no interest in pellet but flakes I saw him eating

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[Komerider]

In my experience,  Randall's anthias takes pellet readily. But what matters most is the size of the pellet,  as well as the odour. 
So far,  my pellet eating anthias are: evansi,  carberryi,  borbonious, 
Tuka and pascalus pecks at pellets. But they are too small for me to be 100% sure. 

So u just do regular feeding of pellets till they eat?

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[Komerider]

Been Keeping male blue eyed anthias for 2 weeks no interest in pellet but flakes I saw him eating

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I also had this problem. Issue is pellets sink but flakes overflow. Flakes generally dirty an aquarium faster.

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[Komerider]

Thx all for the feedback. This thread I hope proves useful to help anthias survive.

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[JiaEn]

2 hours ago, Komerider said:

So u just do regular feeding of pellets till they eat?

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Randall's yes.

The rest need to entice them first with mysis, pod,  fish egg etc. If they starve too much before eating pellet then it may be too late. 

[Magikarp]

I was lucky with blue eyed anthias

[Magikarp]

And also tried dispar Anthias and barlett Anthias

[harvin6]

I also had this problem. Issue is pellets sink but flakes overflow. Flakes generally dirty an aquarium faster.

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You can off the return pump or wave maker and feed

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[Komerider]

Troublesome. Rather just take fish that eat pellets.

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[sfx]

My blue eyed anthias ate TDO C1 pellets readily... when i bought them they werent feeding on pellets.... point to note, anthias have very small mouths, so they need very small pellets... C1 size is the smallest available pellet size i think


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[Harlequinmania]

Anthias need to be feed often , at least 3 time a day.. maybe installing a auto feeder will be good to automate the feeding

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