All he does is sit on the peice of drift wood. I got him to eat a Peice of night Crawler but I had to put it infront of him he reminds me of my red tail whn she was a baby the only way shed eat is if the food went into her cave. Now she comes to the top and eats out of my hand. When the lights go out the shovel nose comes out swims so i ttlhink she's fine. I'm gonna do a large water change in the morning because my redtail made a huge mess out of boiled cray fish