Cowfish feeding problems!

[kev]

I've had this little longhorned cowfish(1-2in) that I rescued from my friend about 3 months ago. He was in a little 10 gallon tank and I knew that he would have some problems down the road. I told him this and he said that I could have him. Anyways, I put the little cowfish in my 30(not much of an inprovement), and all that I've been able to feed him so far is bloodworms and spirulina flakes(sp?.) I know that bloodworms are no good at all for marine fish. I've also tried feeding him formula 1, squid, krill, silversides, he won't touch any of that stuff. Today I went by the LFS and picked up some tetra marine flakes to see if he would eat that, but so far all's he does is spit them out... So what should I do in this situation? I don't wanna starve him, and then again, I don't wanna feed him unhealthy foods all the time. Even my percula clowns are starting to stop eating their formula 1, and are now going for the blood worms like the cowfish. What to do??? BTW, if any of you are interested in a baby longhorned cowfish, he is free to anyone with a big enough tank to house him when he's fullgrown, no shipping, pick-up's only!! He appears to be really healthy and active, he spits water at ya when your by the tank!! He's soo cool!!

 

[plum70rt]

I L VE COWFISH,
I have a Larger one in my 262 gallon like a 3 inch,
Great Fish, Try some Brine shrimp live or frozen soaked in Zoe,
or Mysis shrimp, or some seaweed, mine eats all these and most cubed foods good luck, too bad TX is a little to far, I like to adopt him,here is mine

 

[kev]

Frozen Brine, Mysis, Seaweed Selects.... DUH!!! Lol... I alrdy have some of the seaweed selects, he didnt really go for it. He just nipped at it and spit it out. I'm gonna head to the LFS tomorrow and pick up some brine and mysis, maybe I can get the lil s^#t to eat that!!! Well, I'm about to post a thread in the trading forum to try and give him a better home.. Any of you have any advice for weaning him off the bloodworms? I tried not giving him the blood worms for a week and couldn't hold out any longer... I had to feed the poor lil guy.. Plum70rt, great pic!! BTW -- For all you cowfish keepers out there, how long do you think that I have till my cowfish gets too big for the 30 gallon, months? or years???

 

[plum70rt]

I think he be ok in a 30 for a while, I had a real small one in my 7 gallon, did well for a few months , then died suddenly
here is a pic of that cowfish I called Little Moo, Big Moo is doing well lost a horn though, they grow back

 

[kev]

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