TT not eating - help with info

[henward]

Ok, i got a TT awhile back, already huge.
after a couple of days, was eating off my hand alreayd. about 17 inches minimum.

it owuld eat unshelled shrimp raw stufed witih massivore and aro sticks.
sometimes 3 a day, sometimes 1, but daily.
for months.
then last 1.5 weeks maybe a lil more, has not eaten. i waved food on its face in case it was shy, didnt even go for the food.
usually when i feed the others, it would come up knowing its feeding time.

it just hides.
no visible injuries, cuts or disease.,
also, when it does swim out, nothing attacks it or anything, any ideas on why?
i kmnow aros go through a fasting stage at times, they dont eat as much or anything at all and gets picky.

do eels do this too?
when it was eating, it was getting big fat and huge and getting longer, so no doubt it has some fat and food stores in its body to lats more than couple of weeks, but i am abit anxious bout it.

thanks

 

[MonsterMinis]

Any other changes? new tank mates? lighting changes? brand/sources of food? Does he/she still look well rounded out ? I have had my fires fast on me occasionally. and I intentionally fast them 1-2 days a week. Any color changes? Water quality issues? temperature changes?

 

[henward]

No water temp change, the biggest temp change in my tank ever will be sub 0.5celcius EVER.

water params no issue, nitrate is sub 10ppm at most.

no new tank mates, lighting been same since he got intro'd

and yes, he looks still very fat and well rounded, of course not as far and rounded after 3 whole peeled shrimp stuffed with masivore pellets, but, still wel rounded.

colour is the same, hence my curiousity - he just stays in the cave and just sticks hishead out, sometimes turns the other way, and then back the other way.

any ideas?

 

[MonsterMinis]

Fasting more then likely. I wouldn't rule out internal parasites, or a bacterial infection. Have you tried giving him just the pellets w/out the shrimp? offering smelt, silversides, peices of fresh fish? my guy also loves earthworms, and feeder guppies (home bred to avoid parasites and disease). Normally I don't like to bother hiding fish, but I'de pull up his hidey spot and get a good look at him to make sure it's not illness. Slow and as stress free as possible. he may freak out abit, but getting a good look to rule out illness. So if he is, you can treat it right away.

 

[henward]

yeah, have tried hand feeding, will never touch pellets though.
and other stuff, shrimps and blood worms is all he eats. but bloodworms is really not good, so shrimp it is.
shrimp is food grade human shrimp.

really, no signs of sickness, he jst hides.
see how he goes i guess.
the thing is, when he was not hunry, he would ignore my food dangling at the top.
usually to get him to come up if he is not out already i jsut put shrimp in from of tank, and he knows to come but hes not interested right now.

 

[Worm4882]

I had a tyre track eel as well for about a year, he is in a 1.2m tank with my malawi's and got on well with them, i fed him cocktail shrimp, and then one day, he just stopped eating and never came out, he never had any physical marks or scratches on him, but he was breathing extremely heavy. This behaviour lasted about two weeks, did water changes,etc but never came right, thort might be lack of O2, therefore i setup another 1.2m with just him and a hell of alot of bubbles and still never came right, after he died, i was interested to see what caused his death, so i disected him(im studyn marine biology), found nothing in his throat and no flukes on his gills, all the organs looked healthy. Still dont know what happend.

 

[fishfreak2009]

I know they like soft water. Also try live blackworms and check for skin diseases.

 

[meghanashley]

have you tried different foods? maybe he's sick of the shrimp, my guy only takes shrimp begrudgingly. plus tire tracks hate pellets, when I stuff his foods with pellets if he tastes or finds them he spits them right out. Try insect larve my guys favorite is bettle larve or superworms. Waxworms are good and healthy too.