Duke Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 Added Copper Band in the weekend, might have started my white spot problem. Anyway as usual the copper band is not eating. I tried a syringe cable tied on to a long piece of pipe and used a stick through another piece of pipe to push the end of the syringe and target feed the CB with Brime and bingo he's eating it.. he sits in the corner and I move the syringe close and slowly dispenece the brime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 brime? or brine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Posted July 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 Brine. Small little shrimp much smaller than Mysis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 yes, i realise what brine are - just questioning whether it was your spelling - thought there might be some magical CBB food called "brime" around that i hadn't heard of! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 If he's eating brine, you can probably get him eating mysis, which will be a lot more nutritious, although it is messy in the tank. Another thing to try, is get some live mussels, shell & freeze them, then grate with a fine cheese grater. This can be kept in the deep freeze & fed as required, a very complete food. Need to grate with a fine cheese grater, normal cheese graters make pieces which are too big for the copperband to swallow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
land_lubber Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 Sorry I'm new and don't know much so am just finding out but would everything in the tank eat the grated mussels? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 All the usual fish we keep love it, & thrive on it, it is very close to what they eat in nature. But mussels can ( so I've heard ), add a high amount of phosphate to the tank, so may be best fed in balance with other foods. Back in 1985 when I got my first saltwater fish only tank, mussel was the only thing I fed, as commercial foods were not available for marines. Had that tank for I think 4 years and they all did well on it, did not lose one fish, which is better than I've done over the last few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tang Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 i also got a cb and a yt and cleaner shrimp on sun all doing realy well feeding good the tang cleaning up any algea both are gobbling up frozen brine shrimp the cb is getting cleaned by the new shrimp, been watching the cb at a fish shop since jan and he seemed to a handle a lot of hassling so i grabed him ,when i get new fish now i keep them in the dark for a day and they seem to like , i lost a nice striped rass a while a go wish i had of kept in the dark for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tang Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 i think fish are like us ,so keep em lean and keep em mean ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Watching at the shop since Jan!! Got to give you 10/10 for patience I don't think I could do that! Anyhow looks like it will pay off a CB that is feeding well is a rare score! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie extreme Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Watching at the shop since Jan what shop was it? couldn't do much turnover, makes you wonder why they still sell marines! would cost them more in overheads then the fish is worth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tang Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 east road pets invercargill she has a big turnover in everything not a lot of marines like up your way, salt water not big down here ,plenty of crays in the restaurants though,thats brob why it was still there hes about 3 1/2 in how old would he be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tang Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 the shops set up is very simple 150lt tanks no mh just 2 fl in each tank eheim wet&dry filter thats it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Here is a pic of mine getting fed while he was still learning. Now he's a pig eats everything I put in, and keeps up / beats the other fish. Apologies to those who already saw this pic last time I posted it :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 nice pic. The fish looks really small, how big is it (or do you just have big thumbs ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
land_lubber Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 (or do you just have big thumbs ) hahahahaha yeah Nice looking fish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Yeah I'm all thumbs! :lol: Actually it was quite small then it's bigger now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Posted July 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 Wasp froze some mussel today and the CB ate a little bit so its all good. Does not eat a lot but does eat, I wixed it with some brine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Posted July 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 CB feeding system. Works good but I have to feed the other fish at the same time, my trigger know this delivers food and hes a pig'> Works good but I have to feed the other fish at the same time, my trigger know this delivers food and hes a pig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 Good to hear! the mussels will be cheaper & less messy than mysis. That's a pretty cool feeder, initially i thought it was some kind of drug inhalation system :lol: . Clever though, good work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tang Posted July 14, 2006 Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 I must have an easy cb, not even had him a week yet and he feeds from hand, eats blood worms as well, i wont give him new hatch brine shr in case he packs a sad and wants it all the time, yt and brown nemo killed fire shrimp today first time hes come out to clean someone and got wiped out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Posted July 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2006 Sorry to hear about your fire shrimp, dam anoying when things like that happen. Like throwing $$$ in to a fire. Thats what the wife thinks anyway. Yes you are very luck with your CB as most die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Posted July 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Feed my all my fish at the same time and did not use the syringe method. Dam funny watching the CB darting around the tank trying to catch food but being to slow. The food moves and he misses it. Had to turn off the streems to give him a chance. Hes eating well now more and more each day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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