new fish not eating prepared food

[smaraghy]

hello,

my friend brought me back a very small (1.25") juvenile queen angelfish from his trip to caribbean a week ago. The fish is doing fine but wont eat any prepared foods i put in the tank, just picks at live rock all day. Ive tried, frozen mysis, angel food prep, and variety of other frozen foods. Flakes, and spirulina flakes, and dried seaweed banded to rocks. I even stuffed empty snail shells with squid (more familiar presentation)?

ANY NEW IDEAS OR TECHNIQUES??????

all input welcome. thanks.
-seth

 

[DoctaQ]

does it eat live? like brine shrimp? if it does it can just be a simple association with feeding tube and food coming out of it, you could read up on how people train mandarins and orange spotted filefish

 

[naturebatslast]

Try hand feeding with a fresh clam or mussel.

 

[gregsreef26]

+1 on the clams. And maybe try some garlic to soak food items in, might help get its attention.