Ok, not exactly...my very small juvenile freshwater dwarf puffer has now not eaten for about 7 days!!!
He is new, I saw him eat bloodworms in the lfs and he ate them when I got him home, he also showed interest and stalked the pond snails I put in for him.
Tank had nitrite spike and he lost his appetite...whilst doing twice daily water changes to manage this he almost landed down plug of bath!! He has not had an easy time :-(
I need to get him to eat...he is so skinny and must be weak. I have tried bloodworms, mosquito larvae, brine shrimp, normal raw cocktail shrimp....running out of ideas and he is running out of time, please help if you can???
I used long tweezers with the worm and shrimp but he doesn't pay any attention to the food, only head butts the tweezers :-/ I have dumped small amount of food in the tank and left him to it, still there next day, have held food in front of filter to alert him to it...nothing?!
He is new, I saw him eat bloodworms in the lfs and he ate them when I got him home, he also showed interest and stalked the pond snails I put in for him.
Tank had nitrite spike and he lost his appetite...whilst doing twice daily water changes to manage this he almost landed down plug of bath!! He has not had an easy time :-(
I need to get him to eat...he is so skinny and must be weak. I have tried bloodworms, mosquito larvae, brine shrimp, normal raw cocktail shrimp....running out of ideas and he is running out of time, please help if you can???
I used long tweezers with the worm and shrimp but he doesn't pay any attention to the food, only head butts the tweezers :-/ I have dumped small amount of food in the tank and left him to it, still there next day, have held food in front of filter to alert him to it...nothing?!
he just took two bloodworms from the end of my tweezers!! Thank goodness.
