blue cleaner wrasse

[Danno]

Whats the best food to feed to give to my blue cleaner, other than fish to clean. he's looking real thin...?

 

[Ptrick125]

Have you tried frozen foods such as mysis? Typically they eat along with their tank mates...


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[DripN.Wet]

Rod's Pacific Plankton is eaten by both my Blue streak and Bi-color Cleaner Wrasses

 

[jtietz]

good luck. im sorry to say this but he prob wont make it. never buy a cleaner wrase unless you have a big tank with a lot of fish. all they eat is parasites. it is possible to feed them mysis shrimp but that takes time to ween them. they are a difficult fish to keep even with a lot of fish to feed off of.

 

[Danno]

good luck. im sorry to say this but he prob wont make it. never buy a cleaner wrase unless you have a big tank with a lot of fish. all they eat is parasites. it is possible to feed them mysis shrimp but that takes time to ween them. they are a difficult fish to keep even with a lot of fish to feed off of.

yeah lesson learned , i didn't do enough of my own research, i just trusted the guy at the LFS who never once attempted to advise me of the poor success rate with these fish. The shop has taken the wrasse back - reluctantly! and tbh i don't think it will make it

 

[pagancry]

Not the best fish to keep in an aquarium because they usually starve but I concur with the above suggestions of mysis shrimp, rods food, any solid plankton suppliment like oyster eggs.

James