poop eating fish!

[yikai]

Hey, just want to share with you guys a weird behavior my fish exhibit. I have a coral beauty that loves to eat poop. seriously. When my other fish poop, the coral beauty will think it is food, and chiong to eat. I know alot of fish will sample poop, but will spit it out. But my this coral beauty, eat the poop liao, never spit out. I have observed this phenomena everyday for the past 2 weeks. Anyone have a fish that eat poop? or behave in a manner most unusual, please share haha!

It is confirm not because it is hungry. I feed my fish 4 to 5 meals a day. Small, light feedings. Also, i feed them a variety of food. The 4 - 5 feedings include pellet, mysis, henry's food, fresh prawn and lettuce. So its confirm not hungry or bored with its food. Some mental illness

[nwyk153]

Hey, just want to share with you guys a weird behavior my fish exhibit. I have a coral beauty that loves to eat poop. seriously. When my other fish poop, the coral beauty will think it is food, and chiong to eat. I know alot of fish will sample poop, but will spit it out. But my this coral beauty, eat the poop liao, never spit out. I have observed this phenomena everyday for the past 2 weeks. Anyone have a fish that eat poop? or behave in a manner most unusual, please share haha!

It is confirm not because it is hungry. I feed my fish 4 to 5 meals a day. Small, light feedings. Also, i feed them a variety of food. The 4 - 5 feedings include pellet, mysis, henry's food, fresh prawn and lettuce. So its confirm not hungry or bored with its food. Some mental illness

My mimic tang and foxface does that too.

[yikai]

My mimic tang and foxface does that too.

weird eh? i usually thought fishes will eat the poop and spit it out. But seems like our fishes enjoy the poop -.-

[dachkie]

eat poop good wad, better then a good skimmer lol

[yikai]

lol. but very disgusting

[nwyk153]

lol. but very disgusting

I guess to them it taste good.

[yikai]

lol yea maybe. BTW, u got problem with snails and hermits crawling on ur coral? i alsways have... will it damage the coral?

[albinosage]

lol. but very disgusting

Lemon, could it be that the fish that is pooping hasn't been digesting his food properly, then the poop eater gets attracted to the smell of the undigested food?

Happened to my adult dog once, digestion problem. Took a s--t, turned around and recognised his breakfast inside then..... chomp!

[yikai]

Lemon, could it be that the fish that is pooping hasn't been digesting his food properly, then the poop eater gets attracted to the smell of the undigested food?

Happened to my adult dog once, digestion problem. Took a s--t, turned around and recognised his breakfast inside then..... chomp!

haha! maybe. Quite logical... Sometimes my shrimp also eat shit....

[iskay]

It can actually be beneficial to your tank! Each food item digested 2 times. Less waste. Leftover nutrients absorbed on the second digestion cycle.

[yikai]

haha good! no need change water anymore! now just need to find one fish that eat nuisence algae, white spots, aiptasia, nudibranch.... all these in one fish XD