Feeding A Flounder

[tangtang clown]

I just purchased a saltwater flounder ( sand flounder) for my 75 gal tank.
I was told to feed him by using hard air line tubing with a small peice of krill or shrimp stuck in the end.
I got him on Friday and I can't get him to eat using this method.
Any suggestions or relative experiences?
Thanks.

[leebca]

WELCOME TO REEFLAND!

Flounder husbandry for the home aquarium is usually unsuccessful in the long run. They need a very fine sand since they are easily harmed by even slightly course sand. The very fine sand usually creates a mess in the home aquarium.

I have never kept one of these fishes and always refused to keep them. So I have no personal experience to fall back upon. They are predators that tend to ambush their prey.

Although you may have been given good advice as to how to feed, do you know for a fact that this fish was eating with this kind of feeding? Are you feeding the same food it was used to eating?

Try a bit of scallop flesh and later, a live clam you have frozen and opened (with thorough rinsing) just lying, open, on the substrate. Lastly try a marine fish (Damsel) you have quarantined then stunned or that had recently expired at your LFS (after freezing and thawing).

That is about all I can suggest.