guitarfish
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I've had a new CB for 3 days now. I took a chance purchasing her because she was only at the LFS for a day, but she is very fat and appears to be in excellent health. She's obviously had a great life so far wherever she lived!
I have a well established 20g QT tank. In the tank with the CB is a firefish goby and 2 small reef chromis, all of whom I've had in the tank for 3 months.
The tank params are good: 80 deg, 1.020SG, 8.2pH, zero ammo & nitrite. There's a few pieces of live rock, some fake plants, and CC on the bottom - it could easily be someone's main tank for small fish.
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The CB just hides behind the rock on the left all the time. Occassionally she'll swim across the back of the tank, such as if I approach.
So far I've tried flakes, cyclopeze (frozen), frozen Formula 1, and frozen mysis shrimp. I've seen her approach a flake or two and quickly turn away, that's it. All of my fish go absolutely nuts for cyclopeze, so I am very surprised even that isn't working. I've also rubber-banded some nori to a rock, which she ignored 2 days in a row.
Such a fat, beautiful fish, she obviously knows how to eat.
I once had a new flame angel in my QT, a gorgeous fish. I tried for 4 days to get her to eat and she simply refused. Stupidly, I put her in my main tank - she looked really good, and I felt it was the only way she'd eat. She ate almost INSTANTLY once she was in the big reef tank with all the corals. And 2 weeks later she was covered with ich (which she brought into my main tank, thank you). She ended up dying from ich after 4 mos. My point in mentioning this is it's almost like a psychological thing to get some fish to eat.
So, what can I do?
I have a well established 20g QT tank. In the tank with the CB is a firefish goby and 2 small reef chromis, all of whom I've had in the tank for 3 months.
The tank params are good: 80 deg, 1.020SG, 8.2pH, zero ammo & nitrite. There's a few pieces of live rock, some fake plants, and CC on the bottom - it could easily be someone's main tank for small fish.
The CB just hides behind the rock on the left all the time. Occassionally she'll swim across the back of the tank, such as if I approach.
So far I've tried flakes, cyclopeze (frozen), frozen Formula 1, and frozen mysis shrimp. I've seen her approach a flake or two and quickly turn away, that's it. All of my fish go absolutely nuts for cyclopeze, so I am very surprised even that isn't working. I've also rubber-banded some nori to a rock, which she ignored 2 days in a row.
Such a fat, beautiful fish, she obviously knows how to eat.
I once had a new flame angel in my QT, a gorgeous fish. I tried for 4 days to get her to eat and she simply refused. Stupidly, I put her in my main tank - she looked really good, and I felt it was the only way she'd eat. She ate almost INSTANTLY once she was in the big reef tank with all the corals. And 2 weeks later she was covered with ich (which she brought into my main tank, thank you). She ended up dying from ich after 4 mos. My point in mentioning this is it's almost like a psychological thing to get some fish to eat.
So, what can I do?
