Clown Goby Won't Eat

malx

malx

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I have a Yellow Cown Goby that's looking a bit skinny. He's very active and when I put my feeder in the tank he goes right up to it. The issue is that I can't get him to keep his food down. He will bite whatever food I put in but spit it out shortly after. He must be eating at least a little bit because it's been a few weeks with this behavior. Either way I need to fatten him up before I remove him from quarantine and acclimate him to my display.

I've tried:

Frozen PE Mysis
Frozen PE Calanus
Frozen Cylops
Sustainable Aquatics Hatchery Pellets

I've also tried soaking this food with Garlic Xtreme from Kent as well as Selcon with the same results.

What does everything think I should try next?

Thanks,
Joey


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No matter what I feed, my one clown goby will only eat flake food.

So I only add a very small pinch to feed just him. All my other fish will eat whatever I put in the tank.
 
I would try some live foods. Live white worms or black worms, freshly hatched baby brine.

I would also try some flake food, and maybe smaller frozen types like hikari myses
 
Keep the variety up along with what others have suggested. Sometimes those guys dont eat eight away, but interest in food is a plus. It could be ignoring but its looking for the right food. Its probably getting a small amount from what its spitting back out too.
 
I have a black ice clown fish that was doing the same thing, chasing food only to spit it out. Turned out that the food I was giving it was too big. I went back to the LSF where I got it and got the exact same food that they were feeding it. I would try that and see what they were feeding it.
 
Thanks for the tips everyone. The Cyclops are so tiny and he even spits those out. I'll try some flake food tomorrow when I have a chance to run out to the LFS. Picky eaters :D
 
Finally he ate a little more today. Cyclops soaked in Selcon and Garlic! He only spit 1-2 out but he went after 10+. I'm wondering, could he be eating copepods? There are a ton of copepods in my QT.
 
Well that's good news!

I would imagine that if pods are present in your qt he would be eating them.
 
MondoBongo said:
Well that's good news!

I would imagine that if pods are present in your qt he would be eating them.
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So he's still looking skinny but he is eating very small amounts and he's pooping too. He will take a small piece of Mysis and than spit out the second and third piece. He's been in QT a month. I'm thinking maybe he's more of a grazer than a full on eater because he's got to be eating something. It's weird because if he spits out his food, he keeps going after it. Today I watched him eat and spit out the same piece of food, literally 10x.

Would you move him to the main tank even if he's skinny? There's probably way more critters for him to eat and I feed that tank A LOT, or would you keep him in QT until he fattens up?


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Everyone! I finally got him to eat with out spitting up food and here's how I did it!

I took some live clams, oysters, and fresh scallop that I got at Whole Foods (just a few each) and I blended it up with a cube of frozen mysis and calanus. To that I added a sheet of nori and some BRS Reef Chili. Froze this in a Ziplock bag, broke a piece off, thawed in tank water and fed it to him, he ate all of it with out spitting any of it out!

Pain in the *** fish but making fish food is actually pretty easy considering I have a ton of ingredients lying around.

Gunna keep him in QT for another two weeks until I'm sure he's eating and then put him in the display.
 
my yellow clowns would be right in the middle of feeding times I always thought they were pigs for there size hands down my favorite fish
 
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