Yellow Clown Goby Not Eating

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Originally Posted by Pier Pressure

Hi, everyone. I have a yellow clown goby who does not seem to want to try pellet food. This creature does come out and "dance" at feeding time with the other fishes, but I have yet to see him take a pellet. It has been a couple of weeks now, and I am kind of worried because frozen food does not seem to have a lot of nutritional value.

He has a ton of energy but his belly is starting to look sunken. I have seen him try to eat a mysis shrimp the same size as him and he picks small pieces of frozen out of the water column.

Any tricks to get them onto the more nutritional stuff?

You need to get him to eat because tiny fish use up a lot of energy and have no mass to rely on. Feed him mysis, cyclopses and fortify it with selcon. If he is emaciated now, time is of the essence.