Feeding a Banggai

I just got into the hobby and I decided to use diy food from the get go.  Its a fairly simple recipe and I see him eat very well sticking to fresh seafood and leaving anything thats green alone.  For seafood I stuck in some mussels, scallops, chunk of salmon, tilapia,octopus, and some shrimp.  Its all chopped and can't realy tell what he eats at the time but I do know he likes octopus about the onlything that I can distingish because it stays sort of stringy. 

 

HyVee had Octopus.... Alot of the bigger supermarkets have different types of seafood.   I was looking for squid as well but that is 1 thing they didn't have.  The stuff the supermarkets have in Iowa most likely bring in all their seafood frozen and then thaw out what they need.  Just make sure you rinse everything pretty well to get rid of any preservatives that the seafood might have been sprayed with.

 

I have 7 of them in 3 different tanks - all eat Rod's Food and brine shrimp readily.  In the past they have also gotten squid and some other frozen seafood mixes - so far I don't think I have found anything they don't like.

 

Mine has readily eaten the frozen mysis shrimp.

 

No - I could never get it to eat flake food.

 

Haven't even tried - haven't used flake food in any of my salt water tanks.

 

Mine eat flake and pellet, but it is very rare.

I used to breed them also and the best thing to feed them is a variety of frozen foods. Mysis shrimp should be their main diet with brine as a treat. Prepared foods like Rod's are nice because you get the variety without the mess and hassle. If you want to growout live brine they love those.

 

I use to be able to get live brine at the LFS, but not anymore.  The bangaii loved them.  Do you grow your own?  How difficult and how much effort is it?