fire fish goby not eating

[Johnmichael]

Hey, plaza reply, i seem to have same problem...

sorry in advance for the long post
ok guys i am having a problem i am on my second firefish, the first one died about 3 days after buying it, (i think it was diseased), so i went out and bougt annother one on 10/5, and he hasnt been doing to well he is not eating or if he does eat its very little, i need to know if this is normal or i need to try one thing else, he will eat a little bit of emerald entree(an omnivous food) i know he is carnivourous so when i bought him i bought brine shrimp he wouldent eat them so i went out and bought mysis shrimp he will pick one or two up but he spits em out, then i went out and bought a garlic supplment no luck with that so i wnet to the book store and read some books and they said to try some blood worms so i got some blood worms, he will pick one up but once again he spits it out. the other tank mates are two ocellerious(spelling) clown fish. i will post the tank parameters later, if there is any one that can shed some light on the subject that would be greatly appreciated,

Ok, i to have a fire fish, i've had him for almost 2-3 months now, ate fine... but suddenly stopped, he would slowly go for the brine shrimp, and then just spit it out. He used to chase to the brine, just like the other fish..
But i also have 2 Clowns. And they beat him up, his fin is usually nipped badly.

Maybe, he is intimidated by clowns??
not sure, if you have found out the answer, plzzz reply

 

[greech]

It does sound as if the clowns are part of the problem at least. Firefish are timid by nature anyway. What kind of clowns and how big of a tank? Water parameters testing ok? Are you feeding anything else besides brine? The nutritional value of brine is not all that great. Mysis would be much better.

 

[snupa]

I think something is wrong in the tank. Try holding off buying any fish and do 5 gallon water changes daily (i'm assuming you have a 30 gallon tank) for a week to get anything out of the water. Then do tests to confirm that the ammonia has decreased and other measurements are not out of whack.

 

[melissadotson]

with fire fish..some are just week stock..and others you just can't kill..i have 1 that i have had for a year..awhile back my water went haywire in that tank..lost over 200.00 worth of fish. i managed to save 4 fish and 3 of those were sick..the only 1 that wasn't was the fire fish...and i just bought 3 more last week..mine are all fine..i would say it is the stock..i would wait awhile a month or so then try it again..hope you have better luck with them in the future....