dwarf moray wont eat (1 Viewer)

[Style23]

i know it is soon to be posting this, but i bought a dwarf moray from T&T on tuseday, they had it labeled as a white lipped moray, and said it was one of the dwarf morays...

my question is any ways to motivate him to eat? i ordered a pair of gripper tongs but for now i was sticking the end of some freeze dried krill into the end of the turky baster i use for feeding and putting it by him, the first time i do it he will open his mouth up and sometimes put it on it for self defence, but he wont chop or grab it...should i be feeding him something else??

 

[BayAreaAquarium]

i have a snowflake eel that i bought not too long ago and i feed it large pieces of shrimp and silver sides (whole). since i've had him i've tried to give him small pieces of krill but he doesn't eat unless it's something large enough for him too eat.

does that make sense? basically try to feed him something larger and see if he will take it.

 

[Guest]

I would get various meaty items for it to choose from. I usually get a seafood mix from the market and feed them squid, octopus, cuttlefish, shrimp etc., in addition to smelt, silversides and krill. Since you just got it, it may be a few days before it will eat. Stress of moving will make them not eat until they get settled. Just keep trying.

 

[FishGameRock]

That looks like a juvi white mouth to me fyi not a dwarf. They get big if that's what it is. I wouldn't worry about it not eating for a while they can go more than two weeks easily without health issue.

 

[Guest]

Seems lately T & T has been mislabeling their fish. Thats a white mouth for sure. They get around 3ish ft long. Eels can go for long durations w/o eating. Like Kim suggested go with chopped meaty type seafoods. Give it some time.

 

[Style23]

thats a bummer....anybody want a white mouth moray??

i was kind of wondering why i couldnt find any white lipped moray info

 

[Guest]

It was funny how Q sold Tommy an SPS eating blenny and told him it eats hair algae.

 

[Guest]

I would verify the species. You never know, it could have been labeled wrong when sold to the retailer.

 

[Guest]

The species is Exallias brevis. Typically out of Hawaii. Ive seen them come in under many common names (wholesalers seldom use scientific names on wholesale sheets). Most of the time theyre called Leopard Blennies or Red Leopard Blennies b/c males have a red flush on the anterior)

Lets have a reality check here. NO blenny eats filamentous algae (as far as I know, someone correct me please if Im in error). Blennies have flattened mouths for grazing off smooth surfaces (unless you're a brevis blenny) If one did, hair algae would be a thing of the past.

Kim, with all due respect, whether or not a fish is labeled incorrectly or not doesnt mean anything as far as behavior or diet. An incorrectly named fish is just an incorrectly named fish. Nothing more or less.

Most wholesalers hardly even know anything of the fish they sell. I know this b/c whenever I would see some oddly named fish (remember wholesalers mostly use common names) most of the time they couldnt tell me anything about it!

 

[Guest]

The species is Exallias brevis. Typically out of Hawaii. Ive seen them come in under many common names (wholesalers seldom use scientific names on wholesale sheets). Most of the time theyre called Leopard Blennies or Red Leopard Blennies b/c males have a red flush on the anterior)

Lets have a reality check here. NO blenny eats filamentous algae (as far as I know, someone correct me please if Im in error). Blennies have flattened mouths for grazing off smooth surfaces (unless you're a brevis blenny) If one did, hair algae would be a thing of the past.

Kim, with all due respect, whether or not a fish is labeled incorrectly or not doesnt mean anything as far as behavior or diet. An incorrectly named fish is just an incorrectly named fish. Nothing more or less.

Most wholesalers hardly even know anything of the fish they sell. I know this b/c whenever I would see some oddly named fish (remember wholesalers mostly use common names) most of the time they couldnt tell me anything about it!

I was talking about the eel.

 

[Guest]

whoops my bad!

 

[Style23]

i brought it back to T&T tonight after work...imma miss the lil guy :-(

 

[Guest]

Did you tell them its not a white lip moray?

 

[Style23]

they saw my post in B/S/T trying to sell a white mouth moray and posted on it, and i talked to them tonight about it, its good to go

awsome guys at T&T