Citron Goby Not Eating?

[crappyballer]

I Purchased Citron Clown Goby about 3 weeks ago and i have yet to see him eat. i have him in a 3 gallon pico and all the paramaters are good. he doesn't seem to be losing weight and is still active. i don't know if he just won't eat when i'm around or could he be eating copepods? i've tried everything from baby live brine, live brine, formula 1 and 2(flake), frozen mysis, table shrimp(w/selcon, w/o selcon) any ideas? other tank mates include a cleaner shrimp, 1 red legged hermit, and 2 nassarius snails.

[amcarrig]

The fish could be sustaining itself on copepods for the time being. The problem with these fish is finding food that is small enough for them to fit into their mouths. To feed my clown goby, I crush flake food into a powder and then feed. Seems to do the trick.

[crappyballer]

thanks for the advice i also tried some dried daphnia forgot to put that one in there. but i will try and crush some flakes for him tonight let you know how it works out.

[monkey]

any luck?

[crappyballer]

i still haven't seen him eat but he looks to be doing fine.

[Tangster]

Just give it time and don't feed the tank into a water quality decline trying to entice it to eat it sometimes takes them weeks to acclimate to tank life if ever and also as was earlier mentioned it may well be feeding on the fauna in the tanks system

[crappyballer]

oh i am not feeding out of my schedule i take a little bit out of the and try and direct right at the goby but it shows little to no interest. but like i said he is not looking skinny or ill still swims around in his little spurts and hangs out on the rocks and his favorite powerhead

[Bruce]

How big is the little bugger? You can try getting some frozen "reef prime". Ocean Nutrition (same as formula 1 and 2). Then see if it eats anything. The reason i suggest this is because it has a variety of different foods in it. Maybe somthing will interest the fish.