NTT problem

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I've read up on the shy dat threads, but I'd like some input on my situation. I bought a 7" NTT about 5 weeks ago and I haven't seen it eat yet, besides the feeders I threw in for another fish a couple weeks ago. When I first put it in the tank, it was always swimming around with the active AT, but after about a week, it started hiding under a piece of driftwood and doesn't like to come out and also doesn't look very stable like it used to.

I've heard the stories about having "trainers" for the dats as having other fish that aggressively feed will "teach" them to eat better, but it's not working. The AT and Jag are very good eaters, but it doesn't seem to have helped the NTT. I really like having some driftwood in there because of the other fish I have, namely the BGK, and I don't want the NTT to become less stable than it already is. I feed a decent variety (shrimp, tilapia, imitation crab, beefheart, frozen bloodworms, sinking pellets, floating pellets) and all the other fish eat everything (except only the AT and Jag eat the floating pellets), but I never see the NTT eat.

So, my question is, what would you do in my situation?
 
A couple weeks isn't that bad for a Dat that size, and it is still getting use to its new tank.

They do tend to be the most timid of the Dat species.

I would just keep waiting.
 
Thanks. It only ate a couple small feeders and it's looking pretty skinny around the caudal penduncle. The two stripes in front of its cadaul fin are almost completely invisible. the base color is a decent golden color, but the stripes don't look good. it was actually in a different spot this morning, but still under the big piece of driftwood. I wish my IT was large enough to go in that tank...maybe that would help.
 
I have two of the same NTT about 4-5". Doing the samething. I'm trying to train it to eat sinking pellets. Is there an effective way of training rather staved them and hope they would eat later?
Thanks
 
today, I cleaned the tank and took out some of the driftwood and silk plants, so now there's just 2 fancy plants giants, a floating piece of driftwood and 2 larger sinking driftwood pieces. I bought some top fin freeze dried red shrimp and it ate some, so phew! for some reason, it wouldn't go after omega one freeze dried krill, but it ate that.
:)
 
oh, also, it looks to be much more stable today and ate some more from the surface
 
After I triggered its feeding response w/ some FD krill, I'm happy to report that it is eating everything now (well, not pellets) and has become very stable and its bars are completely black. It still stays under the piece of driftwood, but I'm happy now.
 
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