- Location
- Queens, NY
I picked up a mandarin goby 5 weeks ago and started training it. First food I stuck in was baby brine on day 2 and it took her about 2 weeks to start picking at it. Then I flipped in live adult brine, and it took her about 2 days to eat that. Once she started actively chasing the adult brine around, the next day, I started feeding frozen brine. Once she started eating that well, I mixed in a single frozen mysis in with the frozen brine. By week 4, she's eating about 7 frozen mysis a day.
All this is going on in my 5 gallon QT.
Once she gets a bit fatter, I hope she'll start eating the dry staples I feed my main tank, because if she doesn't, after all this work to train it, I won't be able to move her into the main tank, since I can't target feed her in there. I have 20 other fish in there and there's no way she'll get a single frozen mysis shrimp.
Frustrating isn't it?
All this work to train it, for nothing.
A cool thing I've learned, is that when she's hungry, she'll come to the corner I drop the mysis in and start thumping and displaying towards me. So who's trained who? Wish I also had a male training in the tank with her.
All this is going on in my 5 gallon QT.
Once she gets a bit fatter, I hope she'll start eating the dry staples I feed my main tank, because if she doesn't, after all this work to train it, I won't be able to move her into the main tank, since I can't target feed her in there. I have 20 other fish in there and there's no way she'll get a single frozen mysis shrimp.
Frustrating isn't it?
All this work to train it, for nothing.
A cool thing I've learned, is that when she's hungry, she'll come to the corner I drop the mysis in and start thumping and displaying towards me. So who's trained who? Wish I also had a male training in the tank with her.
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