Coral Beauty not eating

HABS#1 · 07/21/2008, 07:41 AM

I have a coral beauty and it just won't eat. I have tried Brine Mysis and seaweed. Any reccomendation before this thing starves to death? It didn't cost me anything so it won't be a big loss but I would still rather keep it then have it die.

greggnyce · 07/21/2008, 08:30 AM

Try crushing some vit b-12 up and putting it in the water to stimulate their appetite.

IridescentLily · 07/21/2008, 08:47 AM

Mine used to eat a bit of a frozen square of protein food daily, initially If I'm remembering right, later he ate brine shrimp.
Maybe your cb will eat some frozen food?

HABS#1 · 07/21/2008, 09:49 AM

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Originally posted by IridescentLily
Mine used to eat a bit of a frozen square of protein food daily, initially If I'm remembering right, later he ate brine shrimp.
Maybe your cb will eat some frozen food?

I have tried frozen mysis and brine and frozen home made shrimp scallop garlic and cyclopeeze and nothing I use it eats. I have also now tried flake and pellette.

As for the B12 suggestion all we keep in our house is childrens chewable multi vitamins and vitamin C.

greggnyce · 07/21/2008, 01:17 PM

If you go to a drugs store you can purchase them, they are fairly inexpensive.

squealy · 07/21/2008, 01:19 PM

Mine loves spirulina flakes and formula two flakes.

HABS#1 · 07/21/2008, 02:15 PM

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Originally posted by squealy
Mine loves spirulina flakes and formula two flakes.

I will have to grab some formula 2 flakes then and some vit B12.

stingythingy45 · 07/21/2008, 02:20 PM

"I have tried Brine Mysis and seaweed"

What's seaweed?
Do you mean nori?
Soak the nori in fresh crushed garlic.
Garlic does little or nothing for ich,but it does stimulate eating.

HABS#1 · 07/21/2008, 02:26 PM

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Originally posted by stingythingy45
"I have tried Brine Mysis and seaweed"

What's seaweed?
Do you mean nori?
Soak the nori in fresh crushed garlic.
Garlic does little or nothing for ich,but it does stimulate eating.

Julie Sprungs seaweed strips which I also feed my tangs. All my fish food gets a garlic bath before it goes into the tank.

linz13 · 07/21/2008, 02:57 PM

mine loves formula 2 flakes and mysis shrimp.. i tried seaweed on a clip but he doesnt eat that... try formula 2 flakes!

HABS#1 · 07/21/2008, 03:13 PM

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Originally posted by linz13
mine loves formula 2 flakes and mysis shrimp.. i tried seaweed on a clip but he doesnt eat that... try formula 2 flakes!

Will do I will grab some tomorrow morning and hopefully that works it is an awesome looking fish I want to try and keep.

J.R.L. · 07/21/2008, 04:40 PM

mine likes nori but loves formula 2 pellets and even eats rods food

likemike99 · 07/21/2008, 06:03 PM

mine never ate when I brought him home and died 5 days later. try keeping the lights off for a few days and not alot of comotion around the tank.

Will C · 07/21/2008, 06:05 PM

how long has it not eaten? I have a cb that didn't eat for 3 days (at least) but as quickly as it stopped it started, I just made sure he was nearby when I put in the mysis. I also (as does HABS#1) use garlic but not every day. Good luck and drop some food on his head - fish are not known for their intelligence!

HABS#1 · 07/21/2008, 06:43 PM

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Originally posted by Will C
how long has it not eaten? I have a cb that didn't eat for 3 days (at least) but as quickly as it stopped it started, I just made sure he was nearby when I put in the mysis. I also (as does HABS#1) use garlic but not every day. Good luck and drop some food on his head - fish are not known for their intelligence!

I brought it home last Friday and it has not eaten a thing in that time.

As for the other poster with teh lights off suggestion it has been off since Friday as teh light is getting replaces due to some shipping damage.

1fishkeeper · 07/21/2008, 06:59 PM

Have you tryed live brine shrimp? I know mine goes crazy of over formula two pellets. But it eats everything that I put in the tank its a big pig.

HABS#1 · 07/21/2008, 08:05 PM

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Originally posted by 1fishkeeper
Have you tryed live brine shrimp? I know mine goes crazy of over formula two pellets. But it eats everything that I put in the tank its a big pig.

No I have not tried live brine or mysis just frozen.

Aquarist007 · 07/21/2008, 08:09 PM

He might be eating a fooling you--when I first got my coral beauty it would not eat with the other fish for 10 days. What is was doing was grazing on algae ect at the back of the reef where it hangs out in the day time.
I guess he thinks he is a tang

Billybeau1 · 07/21/2008, 08:10 PM

live brine should work if you can get it.

Some fish just do not take well to changes in water chemistry.

Good luck.

Aquarist007 · 07/21/2008, 08:13 PM

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Originally posted by Billybeau1
live brine should work if you can get it.

Some fish just do not take well to changes in water chemistry.

Good luck.

Hi Billybeau1---nice to run into one of my main mentors again

HABS#1 · 07/21/2008, 08:13 PM

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Originally posted by capn_hylinur
He might be eating a fooling you--when I first got my coral beauty it would not eat with the other fish for 10 days. What is was doing was grazing on algae ect at the back of the reef where it hangs out in the day time.
I guess he thinks he is a tang

Funny you mention that this thing hangs out at teh back of teh tank behind teh rock teh BTA lives on and you hardly see it in teh day but at lights out it seems to come out more and swim around I wonder if you are right about it eating some of the small bits of GHA back there.

Oh Capn a littl eoff topic of my post but I just picked up a purple tip acro and some green star polyps for teh tank today. I hope the copperband doesn't decide to snack on them LOL.

Aquarist007 · 07/21/2008, 08:17 PM

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Originally posted by HABS#1
Funny you mention that this thing hangs out at teh back of teh tank behind teh rock teh BTA lives on and you hardly see it in teh day but at lights out it seems to come out more and swim around I wonder if you are right about it eating some of the small bits of GHA back there.

Oh Capn a littl eoff topic of my post but I just picked up a purple tip acro and some green star polyps for teh tank today. I hope the copperband doesn't decide to snack on them LOL.

If the cbb has been eating mysis ect that you have been adding to the tank and is well fed then its not going to change its diet easily.

I'll wager that coral beauty grazing back there and doing just fine---just don't try to hard with it or you will foul up your water chemistry
mine is a straight algae eater normally but will eat mysis ect that I put in for the anthias and copper banded butterfly--so do the tangs

HABS#1 · 07/21/2008, 08:28 PM

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Originally posted by capn_hylinur
If the cbb has been eating mysis ect that you have been adding to the tank and is well fed then its not going to change its diet easily.

I'll wager that coral beauty grazing back there and doing just fine---just don't try to hard with it or you will foul up your water chemistry
mine is a straight algae eater normally but will eat mysis ect that I put in for the anthias and copper banded butterfly--so do the tangs

The tangs eat mysis and pellette food also so does the copperband so all my fish are eating the pellette food and the mysis and my home made food.

drparker · 07/21/2008, 08:36 PM

Mine loves Rod's

Aquarist007 · 07/21/2008, 08:37 PM

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Originally posted by drparker
Mine loves Rod's

We can't get that in Canada, drparker

07/21/2008, 08:30 AM	#2
greggnyce Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Bellport, New York Posts: 1,782	Try crushing some vit b-12 up and putting it in the water to stimulate their appetite. __________________ What you talkin about Mrs Lime. Current Tank Info: 120 gl oceanic tech, 30 gallon fuge, 40 gallon sump, Itech 200 skimmer, LED Lighting . Mixed reef.

07/21/2008, 08:47 AM	#3
IridescentLily Editor-Reefkeeping mag Join Date: May 2008 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Posts: 3,858 Blog Entries: 5	Mine used to eat a bit of a frozen square of protein food daily, initially If I'm remembering right, later he ate brine shrimp. Maybe your cb will eat some frozen food? __________________ ~April Editor-Reefkeeping Magazine

07/21/2008, 01:17 PM	#5
greggnyce Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Bellport, New York Posts: 1,782	If you go to a drugs store you can purchase them, they are fairly inexpensive. __________________ What you talkin about Mrs Lime. Current Tank Info: 120 gl oceanic tech, 30 gallon fuge, 40 gallon sump, Itech 200 skimmer, LED Lighting . Mixed reef.

07/21/2008, 02:20 PM	#8
stingythingy45 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: MA Posts: 3,296	"I have tried Brine Mysis and seaweed" What's seaweed? Do you mean nori? Soak the nori in fresh crushed garlic. Garlic does little or nothing for ich,but it does stimulate eating. __________________ Bob Current Tank Info: 90 gallon,mixed Reef,2-250 watt Optix 3 pendants(Phoenix 14K)2-54 watt T5 Super actnics ,ASM G-2 Gate/recirc mods,70 gal. basement sump,20L ref

07/21/2008, 06:59 PM	#16
1fishkeeper Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Spanaway, WA Posts: 1,101	Have you tryed live brine shrimp? I know mine goes crazy of over formula two pellets. But it eats everything that I put in the tank its a big pig. __________________ "You can run but you will only die tired" U.S. Army Snipers

07/21/2008, 07:41 AM	#1
HABS#1 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: London Ontario Canada Posts: 552	Coral Beauty not eating I have a coral beauty and it just won't eat. I have tried Brine Mysis and seaweed. Any reccomendation before this thing starves to death? It didn't cost me anything so it won't be a big loss but I would still rather keep it then have it die. __________________ If you can dream it you can do it Just remember one thing it was all started by a mouse 25 before 12 HABS over the Leafs every time... Current Tank Info: 75 gal mixed. 2 Ocellaris clowns 2 Bluegreen chromis 1 PJ cardinal 1 blue tang 1 red reefstarfish 1 cleaner shrimp 1 Peppermint shrimp 1 BTA 1 Xenia 1 Lavender mushroom green open brain various CUC (coming soon 1 copperband butterfly)

07/21/2008, 01:19 PM	#6
squealy Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Arizona Posts: 113	Mine loves spirulina flakes and formula two flakes.

07/21/2008, 02:57 PM	#10
linz13 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 124	mine loves formula 2 flakes and mysis shrimp.. i tried seaweed on a clip but he doesnt eat that... try formula 2 flakes!

07/21/2008, 04:40 PM	#12
J.R.L. Moved On Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Tiger Stadium Baton Rouge, Louisiana Posts: 529	mine likes nori but loves formula 2 pellets and even eats rods food

07/21/2008, 06:03 PM	#13
likemike99 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: North Carolina Posts: 117	mine never ate when I brought him home and died 5 days later. try keeping the lights off for a few days and not alot of comotion around the tank.

07/21/2008, 06:05 PM	#14
Will C Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Long Island Posts: 99	how long has it not eaten? I have a cb that didn't eat for 3 days (at least) but as quickly as it stopped it started, I just made sure he was nearby when I put in the mysis. I also (as does HABS#1) use garlic but not every day. Good luck and drop some food on his head - fish are not known for their intelligence!

07/21/2008, 08:09 PM	#18
Aquarist007 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Hamilton, Canada Posts: 28,240 Blog Entries: 1	He might be eating a fooling you--when I first got my coral beauty it would not eat with the other fish for 10 days. What is was doing was grazing on algae ect at the back of the reef where it hangs out in the day time. I guess he thinks he is a tang __________________ I prefer my substrates stirred but not shaken Current Tank Info: 150gal long mixed reef, 90gal sump, 60 gal refugium with 200 lbs live rock

07/21/2008, 08:10 PM	#19
Billybeau1 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Dyer, Indiana Posts: 12,010	live brine should work if you can get it. Some fish just do not take well to changes in water chemistry. Good luck.

07/21/2008, 08:36 PM	#24
drparker Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Palatine, IL Posts: 2,652	Mine loves Rod's