STARVING Citron Goby!!!

[sea horse]

Help he is so skinny and he will just spit missys shrimp right out of his mouth! I tryed garlic juce but that didn't work!

:help:

 

[viper_930]

You could try some frozen cyclopeeze. I've had a lot of luck getting new fish to eat with that.

 

[teresaq]

I was going to say that too. I had one and it starved. got another one and started feeding the dried cyclopee and now it eats everything, its a pig.

 

[sea horse]

Ok, I'll try that. Which is better frozen or dried cyclopezee? Could consistiantly low PH cause this? (he used to eat well)
Or should I feed the fish every day instid of every other day wich I have been doing?

 

[jawfish101]

I would try frozen cyclopeeze, or some kind of flake - if you havn't tried that.
My lfs recently gave me a Citron clown in hopes that I could get him to eat, because he was being pushed around at the store and wasn't getting any food. He was possibly the most pathetic creature I have seen in a fish store. When I got him home, he wouldn't eat mysis, plankton, pellets, finely chopped krill, or a reef blend. He would however dart at some garlic covered formula two flakes, and frozen cyclopeeze. He started to gain some weight and look like a real fish, but he had a bad habit of sitting on my brain, which eventually had him for a snack.
Good luck

 

[sea horse]

Well I tried frozen cyclopezze & he wasn't even interested in it!

He swallows frozen mysiss but looks like he is choking & spits it out!

I love him but I don't know what else I can do for the poor little guy.

 

[stanlalee]

sometimes they have to be started out with live food to begin eating. They are natural zooplankton eaters. might have to intice with live brine and then add frozen with them.

 

[jawfish101]

Mabye you could try chopping the mysis in a blender? It could be to big for him to swallow. Live foods are always a possibility, like previously stated.