I swear live aquaria gave me this one just to make me mad.
Anyway since people have showed objection (I'm honestly suprised it didn't happen as soon as I mentioned it) I will reveal what has been my plan. When I had started feeding him manually because he hadn't eaten in days and I had proof of it. That was before snails got into the tank. I have been trying to get him to feed for an hour everyday since I started making him eat by force. I've tried sticking it on the end of some fishing line and slowly moving it along, jerking it sometimes, making it come at him fast hoping it would trigger his predator instincts, moving it slowly by him, having it "fall" on him, I've even tried "hitting" him in the face with it lightly. The only trick o personally have left in my book is to soak his food in garlic to try to get him to eat on his own. Gonna try it tonight. If anyone has any other suggestion I'm open to anything at this point.
Oh yeah, there is 1 more thing I could do beside the garlic but it's more of my final stand type deal. I have a heavily planted 29 gallon that I could put him in. Here's the stock for it.
3 angelfish
1 uaru
1 mega clown pleco
1 bristlenose pleco
1 krib
1 female betta
7 zebra danios
12 brilliant rasboras
1-3 celestial danios (can't get a head count anymore)
1-2 scarlet badis
3 dwarf pencil fish
I might be forgetting something. The angelfish, uaru, and plecos are just grow outs. They aren't big enough to cause a problem or small enough to be eaten. Now I have been saving this option as my final stand because I really love my small fish. It originally was going to be a nano fish with ottos hopefully breeding and cherry shrimp breeding tank but things got a little side tracked and I got bigger fish. Anyway, I'm willing to give up my nano fish and even the betta to him if it means he'll finally eat on his own.
What should I do?
I'm not moving him before I try the garlic today.