Day 10:
With the masstick I was also experimenting mixing in Cobalt Mysis flakes that I got from @Darkxerox , whose copperband likes to eat. After they developed a taste for it, I then started just laying whole flakes on the acro skeleton and they started to pick at it. Not aggressively, but they would eat some, swim away, then come back for more. They even started eating it out of the water column now that they recognized it as food. They seem to have more grazing tendencies rather than gluttons trying to eat every last bit as fast as possible. I just have to reset the flakes that fall to the bottom but sucking it up with a pipette then letting it fall down the water column again or lay it on an acro. Flakes gives me a lot of confidence that they'll be fine with an autofeeder when I'm not home for an extended period.
With the masstick I was also experimenting mixing in Cobalt Mysis flakes that I got from @Darkxerox , whose copperband likes to eat. After they developed a taste for it, I then started just laying whole flakes on the acro skeleton and they started to pick at it. Not aggressively, but they would eat some, swim away, then come back for more. They even started eating it out of the water column now that they recognized it as food. They seem to have more grazing tendencies rather than gluttons trying to eat every last bit as fast as possible. I just have to reset the flakes that fall to the bottom but sucking it up with a pipette then letting it fall down the water column again or lay it on an acro. Flakes gives me a lot of confidence that they'll be fine with an autofeeder when I'm not home for an extended period.
