Feeding a sleeper goby

[Shilpan]

Hello
I got a gold headed sleeper goby. I know this is a moderate care level fish as it needs an established sand bed and is reaearched into this to prepare my sandbed.

It seems fine so far, it's only eating in one side of the tank so I'm assuming it's getting enough and doesn't need to venture to the other side.

Now my question is do you have any tips to teach fish to accept mysis or meaty foods? It hides when I approach the tank too close so I'm having difficulty. I want to teach it so it has a better survival chance. Will squirting mysis into its burrow help do you think?

 

[jay0705]

Once acclimated they will eat anything. Mine ate nori!. Issues arise when there so thin that its just too late for them

 

[Shilpan]

I see so onc it gets comfortable and comes out more, just try feed and hopefully it should start eating?

 

[Shilpan]

I was reading this article where a person first put food in the sandbed, then near it, and then finally over a week it started gobbling food from
The water coloumn. So I'm gonna try something similar by putting mysis near its den. I think that's a good starter food because the small Crustacea might resemble what it eats from the sandbed normally

On a side note the foxface is incredible, there's no algae left in my tank hahaha.

 

[jay0705]

Ha ha ha yup.

 

[Shilpan]

Just an update
After using garlic, it's starting eating the brine shrimp I place by its den. I can see it actively going after the shrimp pieces.

Now I gotta somehow coax it into actually swimming out during feeding time. I suppose it's only day 4 so maybe he's still shy