Orange Shoulder - Picky Eater

[Skimmerking]

Originally Posted by High tide

Unfortunately it sounds like it is declining. Have you tried soaking the mysis in anything? Garlic can sometimes entice a thinning fish. Have you tried brine shrimp? Not a whole lot of nutrition there but most fish seem to love it.

what I do is unthaw some brine and mysis and shrimp and roll it into a nori sheet nice and tight. and bingo

[Parker]

I usualy soak in garlic, that's hasn't seemed to of had an effect with this particular fish.

I'll give these suggestions a go and report back.

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by asmodeus

what I do is unthaw some brine and mysis and shrimp and roll it into a nori sheet nice and tight. and bingo

mmmm sounds like sushi.....I guess that would be a "Manitoba Roll"

[Haloreef]

I feed my tangs just about every food under the sun. I soak it in Selcon and Garlic. I have had luck getting picky tangs, (Achilles, Black and Powder Blue) to eat Emerauld Entre. I cant tell you off hand who makes it but it has a mixture of foods in it alga and mysis. They seem to prefer this to anything else. Orange Shoulders are notorius for bubble chasing apparently to get the micro scopic alge film on the bubble. Well thats what I read in the coral magazine any way. A sign of hunger.
My Orange shoulder was quite fat to look at but still chased bubbles I started to feed more and he gradually stopped.
Good luck!
Keith.