New Coral Beauty from MT

[eskimoigloo]

Bought a Coral Beuaty from MT on Saturday... it's nice! Will get some pics up over the weekend when it's settled in. Only thing is I haven't once seen it eat anything since I put it in... I have tried flake (New Era Marine & Herbivore) Marine Mix frozen, Krill frozen, and Mysis frozen.
Any ideas?

Chris.

[Zeus]

Hi Chris,

Coral Beauty's are omnivorous detrivators but need a lot of algae in their diet.

Try some Nori, most supermarkets have it, or get a hold of Ocean Nutrition Prime Reef or Tropical Spirulina Forte. I find that mine goes nuts for all of these.

HTH
Campbell

[Tetley]

Hi,

Look forward to those pics. :)


ATB

[lasgringo]

i also bought a coral beauty saturday from interfish and well chuffed with it,it's forever pecking bits from my live rock,agree with zeus,mine loved it when the nori clip came out,look forward to some pics,better than mine i hope
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p302/lasgringo/reef/reef002.jpg

[Gillybaby]

Gorgeous fish there, can't wait to see pics of you CB too, Chris. I love mine to bits, she was one of my first fish. We should start a Coral Beauty Owner's Club ;)

[celtic fish]

hmm ,yep i bought one 2 weeks ago and guess what he lives in almost total harmony with a lemon peel, incredible colours and feeds on anything going

[Pinkfish]

fantastic fish that is, I almost purchased a rusty angel today, but now seeing the coral beauty will hold back, till I can get one.

Mike

[lasgringo]

was tempted by a rusty angel too,it was between the rusty,a fireball and the coral beauty and the latter won

[callum_parsons]

cant wait to see the pics
and lasgringo your cb is pretty

[moorish]

looks a nice fish just give it time to settle in, some take few days others eat straight away.they will eat a wide variety of food including mysis,brine,bloodworm,chopped cockle,squid.alge and spirulina flake.derek

[Kev]

nice fish mate.

[Blue]

Nice pic m8, just give the fish time. He will be pecking around the rocks for now. Keep us posted :) :)

[eskimoigloo]

Won't let me near it with the camera yet... will keep trying. I have today seen him pecking at the rocks, so am more happy! Think he is eating those star polyps I got off you as well Chris!