How to fatten up a sand sifter fish

[Clown7]

Please help! My yellow headed sleeper goby has gotten really skinny please help what do I do!

 

[davidcalgary29]

What are you feeding it, and how often? And what's the tank, size, age, and other inhabitants in it?

 

[brandon429]

And was your tank fallow prepped+ qt?

 

[zalick]

Following along. You can feed live brine shrimp. They aren't very nutritious but if the goby isn't eating anything, then it will help quite a bit.

 

[Clown7]

my tank is 20gallon, it’s being running for about 9 months, there’s 2 clowns and a sand sifter, there’s no cuc. It was not qt but looked healthy and eats well (still does)

 

[davidcalgary29]

But what's your feeding regimen? Please list foods, times of feeding, and frequency per day. Do you spot feed your fish or just broadcast the food over the water surface?

 

[DinoMagnet]

I would do some PE mysis. Also I put sinking pellets for my diamond goby.

 

[Zoa_Fanatic]

You can bury small pieces of thawed shrimp in the sand for it to find

 

[Clown7]

I feed marine green and bloodworm (frozen) to all the fish in the morning. In the afternoon I try spot feed him ocean nutrition marine pellets but he is very skittish so when I put the syringe near him he scurries away and the clownfish eat the food. I do this everyday I only starlet trying to spot feed him a couple days ago

 

[N.Sreefer]

Look at bloodworms like junk food not alot of nutrition try mysis and pellets

 

[Clown7]

Yeah it’s just for a bit of variety and also I think the pellets might be coming out of its gills like sand does