does garlic work to entice fishto eat? i have a 135g sw aqua. wuth a butterfly fish that does't eat. everybody else in the tank is a chow hound. i do have a seperater in the tank to keep the others away from him, but i still don't think he is eating. he does pick at the rocks but i have not seen him go after food, frozen butterfly foodand frozen shrimp. any suggestions?
does garlic work?
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what type of butterfly?
there are many that wont even eat for huge, well-funded, well-researched public aquaria...
there are many that wont even eat for huge, well-funded, well-researched public aquaria...
i had a copper band that would eat only mysis. As one type of food is never good enough to keep fish for long, it eventually died, but its a shot. you may have better luck getting yours to take to other foods then i did.
I took some garlic powder out of my wifes cabinet and put it in with some shrimp to see if my Emporer would go for it and he wouldnt but the other fish seemed to go after it more than normal, just depends on the fish.
put some shrimp in garlic, but real garlic, not the powdered stuff.......and then add some melted butter and broil that for a lil while.....eat it in front of your fish and maybe ur fish will get jealous/hungry
garlic powder is real garlic, just dried and ground up. My wife was saying the same thing about taking a fresh clove and putting it through her press and mixing it with the shrimp but i was to lazy and besides I soak my food ( fresh shrimp, scallops) in some vitamins with a little water and I thought the garlic oil wouldnt mix with the water
I've fed mysis with success. Sometimes crushing up some fresh garlic and "marinating" some chopped shrimp or whatever with some warm water works (I've done that with other picky eaters).