Flame Angel Picking at Rock

I tried today a piece of green seaweed attached to my rock and so far I have not seen him eat it. I threw in some frozen brine w/garlic and he did not go to it either. Any more ideas or will it just take time.

 

It took my coral beauty about a month to start eating the food that I would feed it. It will make a living picking algae off of the rocks until it decides to take prepared food.

 

Mine will pick at rocks all day and will take the flake food I put in. He will occasionally eat the algae when he is in the mood.

 

To add on to what I said, mine took nothing for about a month, then it started to take flake food, then fresh table shrimp and scallop and now it takes everything. In my experience to get a fish onto frozen it helps to start with finely chopping table shrimp, scallop and other fresh seafood. All my fish love that.

 

Flame Angel

I tried a piece of flake but my Angel swims only mid to low level in the tank so he cant even see it. The algae strip I see is only being eaten by the hermits.
Adam

 

Flame Angel

What exact flake food does yours eat?

 

Flame Angel

When you say fresh shrimp and scallop do you mean uncooked stuff at the foodstore? How about live brine?

 

Flame Angel

I actually forgot to have them feed it. Even if I did he might have ate because their was no LR for him to pick at in the LFS

 

I mean uncooked from the grocery store or fish market. My flake is Omega One natural protein formula. Chop up the shrimp and other seafood until its about the size of brine. I've never tried live brine, just frozen.