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Old 01-02-2006, 02:02 AM
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I recently bought two juvenile tomato clowns. They hardly ate at all when I first got them. I kept to a regular feeding schedule (twice daily) and fed the same food day after day. At first, they would sniff the food, then ignore it. A couple of days later, after I was sure they were going to starve to death, they tasted the food but ate only a bite or two. Now when I approach the tank at feeding times, they are crazy to eat.

I think the biggest factor in fish not eating is feeding them foods they are not used to eating. Try one food and stick with it. Feed at roughly the same time(s) daily. And, silly as it may sound, feed from the same place each time, too.
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Old 01-02-2006, 10:28 PM
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I have had them for at least 9-10 days now, and they were eating fine right off the bat for at least 6-7 days. IT is only one of them that is, at this point, about to die. I found him this morning on the bottom breathing very heavily and I removed it and put it in the quarantine sys I just set up. I tried Selcon mixed with cyclop eeze and it just stays at the bottom and I'm pretty sure will be dead by the time I come home from work tonight... There is nothing visually wrong and as I said, it just started acting this way a couple of days ago not eating not moving much and now it's about to die :-(
Not much can be done at this point I'm thinking...
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