Great looking clowns!! Are you sure they are eating the pellets, or doing the nose-bonk thing to try and see if they can host it? (If it’s the former, just feed them a lot before you feed the corals, if the latter...you better chase them away!)dangit....
The clowns have never eaten these pellets before but conveniently....
This really isn’t good. This guy needs those pellets bad.
My radiata has been a clownfish bed for 2 years. They nose boink it and regularly lay completely motionless inside the lobes. Like, right down inside where the corals mouths are.
Night time. Wait until the clowns are asleep and then feed the wilso...
My radiata has been a clownfish bed for 2 years. They nose boink it and regularly lay completely motionless inside the lobes. Like, right down inside where the corals mouths are.
Aye, there’s the rub! A mixed reef can be so frustrating when everything doesn’t cooperate. I still have to occasionally remind my cleaner shrimp that the Goni is NOT his own personal buffet. He taunts me by hiding directly underneath it all day, then as soon as it’s lights out he pounces...but does at least leave it alone now when the lights are on. Mostly. My clowns learned much faster, I think it’s because they have significantly better eyesight and knew what was happening. Try just scaring them away from it whenever you catch them in the act.
I don't really feed it, but they steal food from the mouths of other fish... a stationary coral would be no issue.
I really, really love this coral! I hope he makes it!They were just steaming pellets one by one when the food was half way down the wilsos mouths. I need to distract them next time and maybe feed the wilsos mouths on the backside.
You can see a few of his mouths finishing up dinner in the back:
Thank you
I really, really love this coral! I hope he makes it!
