Copperband Butterfly feeding when away?

[JVU]

My new Copperband Butterfly from Erin is doing great and eating well. Eats frozen Hikari mysis and LRS Reef Frenzy with gusto. Doesn’t seem interested at all in a variety of pellets and flakes I feed the other fish.

Wondering what dry (non-frozen) foods might be worth trying out to make feeding when I’m out of town easier? Has anyone had specific success?

I haven’t really seen it pick at stuff in rocks/sand though I have lots of bristleworms and other critters.

 

[Coral reefer]

Not what you asked but fridge feeder isn’t too hard to rig up

 

[Coral reefer]

@CaseyP uses freeze dried mysis for seahorses. Might be worth a shot

 

[CaseyP]

I have freeze dried mysis (SF Bay Brand) on an auto feeder. My copperband is a little bit finicky with them but will take a bite here and there. @derek_SR I believe has had luck with his CBB eating it.

 

[gmdcdvm]

Following along since I would like to add one, but need one that is lower maintenance.
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[JVU]

I have freeze dried mysis (SF Bay Brand) on an auto feeder. My copperband is a little bit finicky with them but will take a bite here and there. @derek_SR I believe has had luck with his CBB eating it.

Thanks. I bought some and I’ll try it.

 

[CaseyP]

The drawback to freeze dried foods is it tends to float. This syringe trick works great:

Using a Syringe to Get Freeze Dried Food to Sink Immediately

I can't take credit for coming up with method, somebody posted this back in 2012 on the planted tank forum, but it's been very useful for me so I figured I would share. You can use a syringe to immediately make freeze dried food sink by sucking the air out of it. I find a 20ml disposable...

humble.fish

With my Avast Plank auto feeder, I have it dispense into the mixing tube an hour before the mixing/dispensing pump turns on to give it time to soak.

 

[JVU]

I have a Plank feeder that I haven’t bothered to set up yet, this’ll be my motivation to do it now. That and that the badly designed Neptune one dumped a bunch of food in my tank again Sat.

 

[derek_SR]

The SF Bay mysis is great - very chunky, very cheap. Note that with the plank you need to run it for very long periods to get enough mysis to vend (I do like 1min+ each time). And if you try to mix pellets, the pellets will quickly settle to the bottom and then a shitload will come out w/ the long run times.

The "Reef Jerky" from Avast also has stuff my CBB eats, along with some other smaller particles. It's a lot more expensive though.

 

[Gudhjem]

My CBB eats freeze dried mysis. I soak it first, but I think it would work using the Plank or just dropping into a feeding tube.

 

[Darkxerox]

I have a Plank feeder that I haven’t bothered to set up yet, this’ll be my motivation to do it now. That and that the badly designed Neptune one dumped a bunch of food in my tank again Sat.

Let us know how it goes as someone who hasn't used one before. Might need to get one myself.