Angel will not eat..

[james2042]

I have a large bicolor angel and he wont eat. The other fish (large moorish idol ,damsels) eat fine. I feed them frozen formula 2. What can i do?

 

[deejeff442]

get some kent garlic juice and soak the food in it
fish go nuts for that stuff
good luck

 

[lkgrenegade22]

Can you get your hands on some macro?

 

[subielover]

What size tank do you have? How long have you had the angel and how long have you had the moorish idol for?

 

[ca161406]

same thing happened to my bicolor...had to take him back

 

[james2042]

Originally Posted by subielover
http:///forum/post/2919715
What size tank do you have? How long have you had the angel and how long have you had the moorish idol for?
180G I just got the angel sunday the idol i got a month ago

 

[james2042]

Originally Posted by LKGRenegade22
http:///forum/post/2919688
Can you get your hands on some macro?
Yeah i can go to my lfs

 

[james2042]

Originally Posted by ca161406
http:///forum/post/2920087
same thing happened to my bicolor...had to take him back
that sux

 

[pbnj]

If it's gone more than 2 weeks without eating, chances are it's a lost cause.

 

[kjr_trig]

This is very common with Dwarf Angels, I hope you have good, established live rock. Dwarfs often take a bit to adjust to a captive diet, as long as he has LR to pick at he should be fine....Do try garlic with some frozen mysis, usually they will see their tankmates eating and follow suit. My Coral Beauty took over a week before he ate what I offered.

 

[saka bra]

keep add putting seaweed clips in every day and soon he should relize that its food and get used to the scent.
-i had this gerlic stuff called "entice" by i believe seachem or salifert, that worked to start to get my sohal to eat meat.

 

[james2042]

Ok thanks for all your help...btw he did eat a bit today