CBB Not Eating Yet

christwendt · Jun 20, 2023

dkelley said:
I've been swapping the food up each feeding just to see if I get a reaction but doing several kinds of food at one time doesn't help because I won't know what if anything the CBB grabs. I have tried clams on a half shell, I forgot to mention that but it's generally something I've fed in the mornings or as a treat long before the CBB made it to this house.

Have you tried live clams cut in half with a rubber band to a rock to make it look more natural ? I did that for a week and would mix it with masticks. Then I would mix some frozen lrs in with the clam and masticks. Now it eats frozen mysis, lrs , clams.

dkelley · Jun 20, 2023

christwendt said:
Have you tried live clams cut in half with a rubber band to a rock to make it look more natural ? I did that for a week and would mix it with masticks. Then I would mix some frozen lrs in with the clam and masticks. Now it eats frozen mysis, lrs , clams.

I haven't tried the live clams. I can grab some and give it a go. That's a good one to try.

christwendt · Jun 21, 2023

dkelley said:
I haven't tried the live clams. I can grab some and give it a go. That's a good one to try.

Grab live clams and cut in half. Use a piece of rock to rubber band it too. Was my first way to get mines to eat. Then I would use the half shells to make my own mixture to try and wean after I got him eating from the clam.

dkelley · Jun 21, 2023

christwendt said:
Grab live clams and cut in half. Use a piece of rock to rubber band it too. Was my first way to get mines to eat. Then I would use the half shells to make my own mixture to try and wean after I got him eating from the clam.

I couldn't go to the store last night but I will be trying this with live clams tonight, providing I can find live clams. Otherwise it'll be whatever fresh clams they have at the deli counter.

dkelley · Jun 22, 2023

Update:

Live clam was a no go. Doesn't even go investigate even though I know it sees the thing.

So here is the truth of it at this point. First, I've had this fish now for 10-11 days and it doesn't appear to be hungry or getting skinny. It keeps eating off the rocks. Unfortunately I don't think that is enough but I've tried just about everything you can think of so it's going to be what it's going to be.

Going forward I am keeping the DT barrier in for another day and maybe until Saturday morning because I have a damsel coming today from biota so it should be clean and healthy and DT ready. Maybe the damsel will teach it to eat over the next day or two. Either way, the barrier is coming out tomorrow night or Saturday morning and what will be, will be. For better or worse.

Goaway · Jun 22, 2023

I've said it in another post, took a friend's cbb over a month before it decided to eat pellets. As long as it isn't losing weight, your fish is fine. There's something in the rock currently sustaining him/her.

dkelley · Jun 22, 2023

Goaway said:
I've said it in another post, took a friend's cbb over a month before it decided to eat pellets. As long as it isn't losing weight, your fish is fine. There's something in the rock currently sustaining him/her.

Yep, hopefully these other fish spark an excitement. I feel I have done everything on my end within reason to get it going before it hits general population. The damsel will have a day or more to help it along but I doubt that will change anything. Not going to worry anymore. I will still update this thread if there are changes.

dkelley · Jun 22, 2023

Biota damsel is the size of a nickel so that little thing isn't going to help. I put it in a spare 14g tank I have already setup because it wouldn't make it in the big tank I don't think. It is insanely small. The mandarin that came with it is even smaller.

Hilarious really.

This CBB will have to fend for itself.