Emaciated Rainfordi Gobies

[Dartolution]

I received a couple of rainfordi gobies from an online vender and they are very emaciated... they are sifting sand and are picking at brine/flake/nori but aren't eating anything.

I have had them now for a week with no luck in feeding off anything prepared.

Any advice/suggestions for these little guys?

Other than being skinny they are parasite free from what I can tell and brightly colored.
I would hate to loose them.

 

[Betta132]

Give them live food. Blackworms might work if you put the worms on the sand near them.

 

[MondoBongo]

i've got one of these guys in my QT right now. so far, even with frozen cyclop-eeze and nutramar ova, he hasn't been too impressed with my frozen offerings.

i've been supplementing him with freshly hatched baby brine shrimp nauplii and pods from my pod culture. i've also been siphoning off small amounts of sand from my QT during water changes to toss in to QT to give him something to sift through.

so far he seems pretty happy when the baby brine come in. not a long term solution, but i'm trying to use them in conjunction with frozen to pique his interest and in the mean time, fatten him up.

 

[Dartolution]

They are both getting skinnier by the day it seems!
They will dart at/look at foods I introduce but will not eat anything.
Im feeding brine, mysis, algae, flakes, pellets... nothing!

 

[Betta132]

LIVE FOODS. Blackworms, baby brine shrimp, anything you can get.