| Re: how to get fish to eat flake?
Long nose hawks have VERY small mouths. As with all hawk fish they will eat anything they can fit into thier mouths in the way of crustaceans, bristle worms and most food offered. Thats why more times than not they will not accept anything but the tiny bits, because they cant fit it into thier mouths. Try some frozen silver side's or squid pieces, chop them up while frozen in to much smaller perticles and try that. I bet he will take it then. FYI they dont eat brine in the wild, so thats probably why he wont eat bbs for you.
I have gotten some of my dwarf seahorses on frozen cyclo-peez based on the same theory. The trick is to feed them frozen from birth. With dwarf seahorses that is.
WC Will not eat any thing but brine, copepods, or rotifers though.
CB can be trained.
Hope this helps!
Duane |