Yasha Goby not eating

[studacity]

Hi All,

I have had a yasha goby in my tank for about 2 weeks now. Him and his shrimp buddy have built a pretty impressive looking burrow.

The yasha comes out now and again and seems healthy enough. The shrimp is occassionally behind him but I also see him scuttering around under the sand (the burrow was built partially along one wall of the tank so I see him going back and forward).

My concern is the yasha seems a bit slow to feed. They spend most of the time with the entrance to the burrow covered over. I feed twice and day and by the time he gets out, the two clowns have eaten everything with nothing left for the goby.

Should I feed more to the extent the clowns start ignoring the food so some if left by the time the yasha comes out, or will he become more assertive with food as he gets hungrier?

 

[Miz40B]

I would try target feeding the goby.

 

[Onyx picasso]

Try ROE, baby brine, brine that's what I got to say.

 

[Fish Biscuit]

Try giving the clowns a little food to start & don't feed the rest until the yasha comes out. I had one that hid the first 2 weeks I had it & never saw it eat. Most likely he is eating pods & whatever else he can find. I eventually saw it every day but it was a very timid fish overall.

 

[criticalencore]

I have a yasha/shrimp pair in my tank at work. I also had a clown in there. The clown would eat everything I put in and the yasha would come out near the end to try to get some food. The clown would then sit right beside it and they would just eat what they could and try to block the other fish out. I found if I fed a little and waited about 3 min and fed a little more and drug my finger in the water to get the flake to sink a little the yah a would already be out kinda from the first feeding and was able to get more food off the second feeding. I ended up pulling the clown though...

On a side note I notice the shrimp has dug their burrow with the opening facing where a lot of the flake kinda just goes in the whole from the flow of the tank. Not sure if a coincidence or the shrimp planned it that way but after I noticed a little food going in the more I look at it, a lot of flake just happens to blow into their burrow

 

[hogfanreefer]

Mine was like that for almost a month. I have clowns but it was my very active wrasse that out competed him. Try a frozen food that has more small particles (I use LRF) or chop up some mysis really fine and target feed a little at a time up stream from his burrow. He will eat small pieces the larger fish will ignore, or at least mine does. I've had him over a year and he is doing great.