new fish not eating prepared foods. help/ideas?

[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

 

[stingythingy45]

Yes,try feeding live brine along with frozen mysis.
Don't put them together,but feed the brine first,then mysis.Perhaps the swimming motion of the live brine will stimulate the fish to also eat the frozen mysis.
This also happens with manderin's.

 

[lemartin777]

if this fish was taken from wild its gonna take a long time and patients to get this guy to eat. i would put him in a qt take and feed natural foods and slowly move to prepared foods mix the two together. just to get him use to eating foods that are not natural to the fishl. i had a similar problem with a lion fish i had. hope this helps and i am sure there are more people that will chime in with more in put. good luck

 

[JayM]

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

Live food? Clams/Muscles?

Isn't collecting in the Caribbean illegal?

 

[fishfry]

You may want to try garlic. Its said at be an appetite stimulant. Probably not naturally found in the wild but worth a try. At any rate its good for its immune systems.