Bit off more than he can chew!

[Titanwerx]

My Mandarin Dragonet eats frozen mysis, and brine shrimp. This morning he bit off more than he can chew and a long stringy part is still hangin out of his mouth, he seems unable to swallow it all or bite it off.



..My question is should I try to catch him and pull it off? or just leave him be. He has been like this for a couple hours now, just worried it will effect his eating or breathing.

 

[ERIC1975]

Let him be ...little piggy LOL

 

[Jhuneke]

That looks annoying! Do you have a cleaner shrimp? If so hopefully he's not on strike! I would leave it a while, you don't want to stress him unless you have to..Some other fish will likely pull it off, or he may regurgitate it. Maybe tomoro I would try and use a syringe or baster and suction it off. Maybe someone else has had this happen and will chime in.. Good luck tho

 

[loppnessmonsta]

Yeah let him be. I wish mine would eat frozen stuff. Lucky I gotz mills of copes

 

[Titanwerx]

wow, you guys reply quick! I was just about to take this down, I tried grabbing him and he thrashed around abit and it came loose. Thank for the very quick responses guys! Im gonna have to support this site...as soon as i have a few extra bucks

 

[Tangwich]

Yup consider yourself lucky that you're one of the few with a mandarin that eats prepared foods. Too cool.