Midas not eating.

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starting to increase the temp. I usualy dont do live feeders but since he wasnt going for any type of food i thought maybe the live would atleast get him to eat something until i could find what he likes to eat. Sadly though the guy still hasnt came back to work. Might go fishing today, gonna bring home a nightcrawler.
 
Try to stay wawy from the live feeders and goldfish. You don't want to introduce parasites to your fish. Keep trying different flakes and pellets until your RD eats. It doesn't have to be NLS but a good quality food will be best as a staple. Don't worry, he'll eat soon enough.
 
The only person that has mentioned NLS, twice now,
has been you Gruff. :)


This fish most likely just needs time to settle in to its new surroundings, and taking the temp up a few degrees will hopefully help stimulate its appetite.
 
RD.;4562411;4562411 said:
The only person that has mentioned NLS, twice now,
has been you Gruff. :)


This fish most likely just needs time to settle in to its new surroundings, and taking the temp up a few degrees will hopefully help stimulate its appetite.
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Yes, that's true. I have to do something with this jar of food that is collecting dust. I don't know why you chose to say something to me. I only said something else because I didn't want him to think that he had to get the food that I mentioned earlier before your first post. I make it a point not to talk to you because of things like this. I didn't bring your name into this. We can let this turn into another NLS derailment or we can both walk away from our discussion knowing that we don't agree. I'm good with that. I know that you are the NLS Sheriff. There's no need to flash your badge on every post that mentions your product. Stop using the search engine to hijack every single thread that mentions NLS. Please, leave me alone, RD. Thank you, sir. My apologies to the OP.
 
Gruff - perhaps you've confused me with one of your students? I'm not.
If you don't appreciate what I offer to this forum then add me to your ignore list, but don't ever atempt to tell me what I can, or can't say, on a public forum. My advice in this thread was sound, and always is, no matter the subject at hand.
 
RD.;4562496;4562496 said:
Gruff - perhaps you've confused me with one of your students? I'm not.
If you don't appreciate what I offer to this forum then add me to your ignore list, but don't ever atempt to tell me what I can, or can't say, on a public forum. My advice in this thread was sound, and always is, no matter the subject at hand.
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Perhaps you have me confused with someone who actually asked you for your comments. No, you are not one of my students. But who are my students? I don't know what you're referring to. You singled me out for no reason. You continue to say things to me. This is a public forum and you have the right to say or do what you like. You want to derail this thread, then go right ahead. You want to go back and forth with me over something you started, then go ahead. I asked you nicely to let this stupid disagreement die before it came to this. But you insist on pursuing it. Why? I don't know. Ok. I will be the bigger person and end this. RD, I apologize for anything that I have said to cause you to be angry with me. I apologize for anything that I may have said to you that offended you in any way. I am sorry if you took my comment to the OP personally. Now, since this is settled, let's both be gentlemen and leave our disagreement in the past. I have nothing to say to you and I will make sure that I never do. I just humbly ask that you will refrain from addressing comments to me. I can't tell you what to do but I'm asking nicely. We don't get along. There's no need to let an entire forum suffer because of that.
 
RDs advice is sound but clearly being a prck on purpose to get a rise out of ppl. But yeah, you pretty much have all the advice you need now...they can be picky..mine is a real pain in the butt sometimes
 
:ROFL:

That's not me being a prck, that's me being tired of Gruff's constant BS. I guess some people can dish it out, and some cry foul when a wee bit is pushed back in their face. boo-hoo-hoo

Once again, if you don't appreciate what I offer to this forum then feel free to add me to your ignore list.

To the OP, good luck with your new fish, I'm sure he'll come around in due time.
 
RD.;4561450; said:
Hopefully not from your LFS, if so you have just potentially introduced pathogens to your tank, and new fish. Not good from a overall risk factor, and not good from a dietary standpoint. (if that was your intention?)


Don't allow the fish to train you, pick a quality food & stick to your guns.




Over the next 24 hrs slowly increase the temp to 82F. The rise in temp will increase the fishes metabolism, which will stimulate his appetite.

Make sure that you have plenty of surface agitation at the warmer temps (for 02 exchange), which shouldn't be a problem with your filtration & powerhead. If need be, take it to 84F for a few days, it won't hurt your fish, and may be the kick start that it needs to trigger a feed response.

Once he's eating on a regular basis, slowly decrease the temp to 78.
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I agree with this, the increased temp sometimes jumpstarts the metabolism. I keep my tanks right around 80 all the time. Try a couple of good quaity pellets after fasting at the higher temp for a couple of days and see if he goes for one of them. If you hit on somthing it'll eat stick with it. Good luck.
 
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