Feeding a Coral Beauty?

[amphitrite]

I just got a coral beauty yesterday and tried to feed it a cube today. My lemon damsels got to it first and dragged the cube under some rocks. (greedy little things-I had just fed them!They just wanted to play with it.) I am afraid the coral beauty is going to starve. Any advice on how to give it the cube and not the others?

 

[sepulatian]

A cube of what?

 

[mcbdz]

What do you mean by cube. Are you feeding them frozen? If so you thaw it out in some tank water first then feed a little at a time so everyone gets some.

 

[amphitrite]

Oops...guess it helps to be specific...

LOL
Its a frozen cube of pygmy angel food that I put in tank water for about 20 minutes. Unfortunately, it didn't break apart like the cubes of shrimp.

 

[nereef]

my advice would be to trade in the damsels for another fish.

 

[amphitrite]

They are some of my original fish. I had 3 larger damsels that were aggressive but I couldn't part with them. All of them died about a month ago and now I thought I was going to have a peaceful tank finally. Maybe I'll try to distract them and drop the cube by the coral beauty. He's pretty tiny but so colorful.

 

[sepulatian]

Is the cube gel based? It sounds like it is. Pick up a different kind, or break it apart with your fingers and add the pieces at different spots in the tank so that the angel can get some too.