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scrmom
12/21/2006, 05:05 PM
We have had our clown goby for 8 weeks now. The problem is he is very skinny now. He is always eager to eat but when he gets the food, he spits most or all of it out. He then goes to get more and does the same thing. He is so skinny now you can see the spine. I give him a variety of frozen food and flake food. He is in 75g tank with 2 clowns, and a 6 line wrasse. I feed every day. Is there something I can give him that he won't spit out or could he be sick?
DrBegalke
12/21/2006, 05:46 PM
i'm not sure, i had a yellow clown goby that acted this way, it ended up going to fish heaven.
i tried mysis, small brine shrimp, etc.
since then, i purchased another ycg that has been doing fine in my tank for 6 months.... i think it might just be variable.
slant77
12/21/2006, 06:27 PM
have you tried brine shrimp mine would only eat brine even when i went way over a week of feeding stuff he waited. Now all of a sudden he eats a small bite of everything i place in my tank.
LobsterOfJustice
12/21/2006, 06:34 PM
My friend's had this problem. I set up a 10g QT with just a few pieces of LR inside. I started feeding live brine out of a syringe, then frozen foods. Eventually he learned that the syringe = food, and eventually took flake. The whole process took about a month or so. Now he's in a nanocube with greedy fish, and he darts out of the rock, grabs a piece of flake, then back into the rock in a split second. He's nice and fat now.
josbur63
12/21/2006, 10:24 PM
try frozen cyclopeeze,my yellow spot goby loves it,and it seems to be the perfect size for smaller fish.Good luck.
ifringe
12/22/2006, 09:53 AM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8805450#post8805450 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by josbur63
try frozen cyclopeeze,my yellow spot goby loves it,and it seems to be the perfect size for smaller fish.
I had a problem with mine not eating as well. I finally tried some freeze-dried Cyclop-eeze and that was immediately eaten.
But then I got thinking. I realized the freeze-dried Cyclop-eeze was very fine (finer than I could get flake food with my fingers). I put some regular flake into a mortar and pestle and ground it up fine... and that was also immediately eaten.
So now, I grind all my food (it is a one-fish tank, so that makes it easy) and all is eagerly accepted.
schnell76
12/22/2006, 10:19 AM
Good luck getting him to eat. Mine went about that long and did not seem interested in any kind of food. Only thing I did not try was cyclopeeze which seems to be golden for them. I could not find it locally at all and Dr. f/s only had huge packages that were like 40 bucks. So he eventually got stuck to my intake and went to fishy heaven. Was a very cute fish, but from what I experienced its very hit or miss if you get one that actually eats and thrives :(
millstreetzoo
12/22/2006, 01:27 PM
Have you tried blood worms?
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