Any hope of persuading a CBB to take non-mysis foods?

[RD]

King Albert, marine salt mixes have more copper in them than NLS, so it wouldn't be that.

[albert_dao]

I'll wait til 3 AM to dig up the RC threads Neil.

:P

[Delphinus]

Oh... well .. Ok I won't feed them that anymore then. I thought it was kinda nice to feed it something that wouldn't get stolen by the mysis fiend (the CBB).

I can try feeding it some Cyclops-Eeze flakes.. man nobody in my tank will touch that stuff. Must be stale or something. (I'm actually thinking of tossing the container .. that and the freeze-dried stuff .. useless. Only thing anybody will touch is the frozen kind.)

[Delphinus]

Quick update (in case anyone's interested )

So on Wednesday I was able to buy some NLS "Finicky Fish", hoping that with a name like that, there would be hope for my CBB taking it. I soaked it in with some mysis for an hour or so, then offered it to the tank.

Unfortunately I was not able to successfully seperate the mysis from the pellets afterwards, so there was still a mix. The CBB shunned the pellets and picked out all the mysis bits. Won't chase down the pellets, only the mysis.

So on Thursday I found some clam juice at Co-op. There is was, a jar of opaque liquid literally called "Clam Juice." (On the back it says - "Ingredients: Clam juice.") So I tried soaking some pellets in this stuff for a few hours and tried offering those to the tank.

May I just say, by the way, clam juice reeks. Took a sniff of it and ... yup. This smells like clams. Quite putridly strongly I might add.

Mr. Finicky STILL shunned the pellets, although the stinky pellets were a hit with everyone else (tang, hawkfish, 6line, angel) who all went berserk chasing after them. So I'm hoping a few more tries of this and he'll observe the others and maybe make the mental connection that it might be OK to try eating.

[Chaloupa]

I'm interested! Keep us up to date as I would love to be able to get my CBB eating pellets! Although, the idea of clam juice is absolutely revolting!