Engineer Goby Food

[Donya]

My one-eyed nearly blind engineer goby has recently decided that the frozen mysis I had been giving him periodically has pieces that are too small for him to be interested in (or rather he'll occasionally eat the very biggest piece out of the entire cube and leave the rest to the bristleworms ), so he's down to eating what's in the tank and frozen prawns that I cut into small enough pieces. As for what I've seen him eat in the tank, he eats an awful lot of big amphipods and mini-brittlestars off the rock he lives under. He's perpetually well-fed, so I'm not worried about him starving or anything, but I'd like to have some other feeding options to keep his diet varied.

The best LFS in the area doesn't carry much in the way of frozen foods outside the frozen mysis mixes, finer foods that are too small, and frozen squid. None of the other LFS carry anything beyond that. I just can't find many references as to what these fish will eat when they're beyond a couple inches. All I see are things like frozen mysis, "carnivore foods," etc...no details. Is the squid worth a shot? Anything else I should look for?

 

[Lynden]

The squid is likely worth a try. After that.... maybe some krill?

 

[boshank23]

my one like anything and everything, like lynden said get some krill and squid (my fellas favourite) or try mussles, lance fish or even crab sticks

 

[Donya]

Thanks guys, I'll pick up some squid and give it a try. I'm not sure where to find the krill though. I've only seen dried krill locally, so maybe that's something I'd have to order.

or even crab sticks

I'm a bit confused, do you mean the pellet type food?

 

[SkiFletch]

Huh, none of your LFS' sell Krill? Odd, everyone around here sells them in the frozen section. Hikari makes some I know for sure. Only my clowns like krill though so I don't feed it.

 

[Donya]

Thanks for the tip Ski; will keep an eye out for that. I see can get it from places like liveaquaria too if local sources don't have it and the squid fails. I think most of the stores here use the frozen foods mainly for the smaller finicky fish and young fish, so there's not much in the way of foods with bigger individual pieces.