Tough love for finicky eater?

[joshola]

Hey all,

I've got a sixline wrasse who won't eat anything. I've tried virtually all prepared foods (mysis, flakes, cyclop-eeze, brine, Formula One...) I've had her (seems like a her) for about two weeks along with a bicolor blenny -- who's a glutton, no worries there. The wrasse went koo-koo for bloodworms for the first week, now she hates them.

Is not that she doesn't go nuts at feeding time; I just can't seem to find anything she'll eat. She'll go for the first thing in the tank --say, two small pellets or three bloodworms, but that's it, even though she'll swim around and check out everything else the whole time -- meanwhile the blenny goes bonkers.

Should I just start stretching out feedings to every other day and let hunger prevail? (I'd feel bad for blenny) Or should I keep trying for that magic food?

[McCrary]

Sixline wrasse feed on copepods and he may be eating those as an alternative to the food you offer. If he seems to be healthy I wouldn't worry too much, sixlines are pretty hardy fish and usually aren't very picky about what they're fed.

[1F2FRFBF]

You mean they're koo-koo for coco-pods?



Sorry...

[kathainbowen]

Sixline wrasses are exceptionally hardy wrasses, and, like previously pointed out, they do graze on other small organisms such as pods (with additional, sporadic reports of sixline wrasses feeding on invasive flatworms). If your sixline is fat and happy seeming, moving about well and behaving normally, I wouldn't worry. However, if you're still concerned or if it seems skinny, try a garlic soak with your frozen foods, or try live brine to entice your sixline to eat.

G'luck!