Jameson, what do you mean by
flakes? Just the normal gold fish ones which float on the surface? (I've tried those sera cichlid bits which float, but he doesn't bother).
For the old post...
Cary does make a good point. It could be possible that the defect is a side effect of past disease in the water. Or even bad conditions such as a heavy chem. imbalance. He spent about two weeks off his food when I first got him. But I guessed it was just acclimatisation.
I’ve heard of it before in humans, but there’s no research I know of in fish. Unfortunately, we all just point to the “unofficial” texts from the net, which blame in-breeding. It’d be nice if someone could put a bit of insight in for the Beginners area… Brew?, I know you’re still there ;) (Or just post a link if it’s old news).
Anyway, he used to strike at food off the bottom. I assumed that everything was ok. Recently I noticed that he wasn’t actually able to pick it up. A few weeks later he stopped trying all together, and will only try to strike from the top ½ of the tank now.
Still.. It doesn’t matter if the food is the size of his head, he’ll still miss.
Would moving him into his own tank to feed-up be a dumb idea?