Fickle Fu

Johnnyredd · May 23, 2014

We have a fuzzy dwarf. He was a dream to get onto frozen food. (shrimp mostly) We got a Fu. Bigger fish. Figure its older and more set in its ways. Couldn't get it to eat for a week so we moved it to the QT. Eats glass shrimp like he's at a buffet. As soon as they hit the water his tail starts wagging, the spines start dancing and it's on.

Anything else and he stares at it. We even tried small minnows. They hung out together. Krill, the same shrimp the fuzzy eats, table shrimp, silversides, etc. No interest. We have tried it on feeder tongs, on fishing line and free floating.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Reefing Madness · May 27, 2014

He used to the other food, natural foods, may be really tough to get him to eat anything else at this point.

Waters · May 27, 2014

I would just keep at it. If you don't have one already, make a feeding stick with an acrylic rod (I used one from Home Depot used with mini-blinds) and 4-6" of 50lb fishing line at the end. You may want to try showing him the feeding stick whenever you feed live food. He will start to get excited every time you use the stick and associate that with feeding time. Slowly introduce frozen shrimp using the same stick...making sure it dances around on the end of the fishing line. This worked for my stubborn Antennata Lion...who now eats everything including flake food lol.

SantaMonicaHelp · Jun 4, 2014

Sorry, no suggestions for feeding...just wanted to say that that's an incredibly beautiful fish :]

Daniel62 · Jul 1, 2014

gut loaded ghost shrimp

Johnnyredd · Jul 1, 2014

Thanks. He is stubborn and the only thing he will chase down is... Ghost shrimp.

revhtree · Jul 1, 2014

Great fish!

stunreefer · Jul 1, 2014

Keep at it, some fish take months of conditioning to accept prepared foods, and will only do it when they're ready for it.

Search around for various feeding stick/fishing line methods... there's a ton of various ways people have tried and one may work better for your specific situation. Personally I've found fishing line methods to work better than feeding sticks since they cannot see the line.