Yellow Clown Goby- Trouble feeding

[necrio]

This guy is SO HARD TO FEED. I've had him for almost a week. Mainly the problem is his mouth is so small!

The past 4 days, i've been target feeding him with a home made food, but sadly he snips at like 1 of the smallest pieces and gives up.

I am getting worried since he hasn't fatten up. He does snatch at the food when I feed him. He just ignores it after the first nip.

I'd like to keep him alive and get him eating better. Any suggestions ( btw, before asking here I've read a lot of different people having the same issues. . . )

:angryfire:

 

[ocean82]

More info. Size of tank

 

[RedStangGA]

You can look into nutramar ova. Very small size.

 

[geoplane2]

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This guy is SO HARD TO FEED. I've had him for almost a week. Mainly the problem is his mouth is so small!

The past 4 days, i've been target feeding him with a home made food, but sadly he snips at like 1 of the smallest pieces and gives up.

I am getting worried since he hasn't fatten up. He does snatch at the food when I feed him. He just ignores it after the first nip.

I'd like to keep him alive and get him eating better. Any suggestions ( btw, before asking here I've read a lot of different people having the same issues. . . )

:angryfire:

I have been giving mine brine shrimp gut load buy DR G`s and he eats like a pig .Now he is picking at the small Mysis shrimp and small pellets . But the brine shrimp works the best ! Hope this helps with you little guy .
George

 

[saltym3]

I added a tiny one as well 2 months ago. It took him about 3 days before he showed an interest in food. When he finally did he was doing the same as you described. picking at pellets or whatever i was putting in and just could not eat them because his mouth was so small. Now i have him eating frozen mysis and new spectrum 0.5mm sinking pellets (the smallest i was able to find). He eats both. He hasn't fattened up to where i would like to see him but i do see him eating every day. I also put in cyclopeeze (not frozen) which he will go after as well.