Snowflake eel Not eating

[samdaman]

My snowflake eel has not eaten in 3 weeks-month,,, dont know what to do.. i know they sometimes go on strike but. idk its loosing some mass .. I try to feed silversides, shrimp, krill, clam and nothing. has hermits and eels but it still does not eat.. any ideas

 

[olemiss reb]

Try squid or octopus. I pick up both from Asian specialty markets.

My fimby will sometime turn its nose to the octo but if I remove the purple "skin" layer it will eat it every time.

I had a finicky zebra that would never turn down cracked blue crab but I'm not sure if that is readily available in other regions.

 

[wlyon]

sometimes the best thing to do is bite the bullet and start back over with live feeding. My snowflake stopped eating when I upgraded him to a bigger tank after about a year of eating frozen food. I bout about twenty ghost shrimp and two peppermint shrimp, and acclimated them to the tank, and after a week or so I noticed I had less and less shrimp in the tank, then started feeding live shrimp by holding them on tongs, and then switched back over to frozen food again.