Midas not eating.

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Not crying about anything. These are just words. I'm just trying to be adult this. I could take jabs all day over this, but what's the point. I'll say something, then there will be another response and so on...I could let annoyance or bravado lead me to curse and call names, but then I would be just making more of a spectacle of this nonsense.
 
I keep my tanks right around 80 all the time.

Ditto, I have the controllers for my heaters set as 79.5, which keeps them at 79-80F year round. Sometimes in more aggressive tanks where the fish are all mature I'll keep the temp at 78, but IMO 76 is starting to get a bit on the cool side, at least for a new arrival that's still acclimatizing to its new surroundings.
 
Not fueling the food brand issues... But I use NLS, Hikari and Omega One for my Midas.

The brand was not the issue, he went from eating only floating pellets to only eating sinking that he would then pick off the bottom. I think that is why he liked the Omega One Algae wafers. Continue to try different things. And raise the temp a little like others have suggested.
 
It has been at 82 for 2 days now still have not got him to eat anything. I have tryed pretty much everything, even soaked the pellets in garlic like i do once a week for my salt water tank. He is looseing alot of weight the temp increase has made him more active but still has not ate anything. Actually a rosy i cant catch, due to plants and driftwood, swims along side him.
 
It took my midas almost 6 months to really start eating. What did the trick was a heat wave that got the temp up to 86 degrees.

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