fish wont eat!!!!!!!

[ricker]

i added a coral beauty angel firday and its dunday night and it wont eat anything i have two saddleback clowns in the tank also, but the coral beauty wont eat anything, i must have tried every method to get it to eat but it wont.
what should i do?

 

[ricker]

any help? maybe?

 

[squidd]

What are you trying to feed it...?
My coral beauty would eat flakes and frozen (thawed) cubes of mysis/brine shrimp...
He was quite a "shy" fish when forst introduced...and never became an "aggressive" eater...like the 'clowns" which would eat out of my hand from day one...
Do you have other fish in the tank besides the clowns?

 

[ricker]

no all i have in there is two saddlebacks and the angel, and then the clean up crew witha number of snails and such
but i am feeding them brine/mysis spirulina enriched cubes, and ive tried lettuce and fresh cut seafood jsut stuff around my house i guess, but it doesnt seem interested it seems happy it just wont eat, ive had it since friday
you say did did this fish you have die?

 

[squidd]

Nope...The Coral Beauty is a dwarf angel and after the damsels "dissappeared" and the Vo;tain Lion continued to grow...
I figured it was safer in my buddies tank...

 

[squidd]

And try some "Flakes" for the CB...I like Ocean Nutrition...
I mean he liked Ocean Nutrition...

 

[lagatbezan]

was it eating at the store? always ask the store to feed the fish before you get it to make sure that it eats.
try adding some garlic juice to the food you feeding it, it might help.

 

[kreach]

Sometimes a fish may take a couple days to acclimate to the tank and start eating. As suggested, you might try soaking the food in garlic. I recommend Kent's Garlic Xtreme... it's made specifically for fish. But you can make your own garlic "juice" by soaking some fresh garlic cloves in RO water overnight. Just use the juice though, not the actual garlic clove.
Hope this helps!

 

[beaslbob]

I second kreach. It is not uncommon for new fish to not eat because of the stress of the new environment. Additionally, by feeding them you may be creating high nitrItes due to uneaten food. For those reasons I always do not feed for at least three days when new fish are added. If the system is new and still maturing, I highly suggest your watch you nitrItes very closely. If they spike do not feed until they come down.

 

[ricker]

i have some garlic juice, but it has citric acid guar gum potassium sorbate and sodium bisulfate? is this ok?