Lionfish stopped eating

[Wolfenbuttel]

Ive had my lionfish for several months now and about 1 week ago he stopped eating, ive tried to feed him live food but he runs from it. Used to love eating frozen krill, mythsis shrimp, squid, ext. Can ne 1 help me?

[Fly Guy]

Does he look healthy.???

I.E. no signifigant fin rot, visible tumors, ich or anything else out of the ordinary???

[Twitterbait]

what live food have you been using?

[Wolfenbuttel]

No not unhealthy just not lookin hearty, i guess kind of skinny. I ve tried minnows and guppies. He swims away from them like he/she is affraid. I just dont get it. As for the fin rot ext. not even 1 fish has ne disease cause thats what i was thinking. If he is sick it not visibly.

[Wolfenbuttel]

Now it goes for food but when he eats it he spits it out

[partobe]

well thats a move in the right direction! He/she must be feeling a little better to even go after it. It's always been my experience when a fish does that(goes after the food then spits it out) he eats shortly after. Lets hope yours does as well!

[Wolfenbuttel]

I will keep updated

[partobe]

please do and good luck!

[Wolfenbuttel]

Well he stopped again he is still alive but weak looking

[Loverotties]

Try some ghost shrimp.

[partobe]

thats too bad. Keep trying

[BLEEZY]

Originally Posted by Loverotties

Try some ghost shrimp.

[Wolfenbuttel]

never heard of it

[Wolfenbuttel]

well he is still alive dont know how. its been weeks since he has eatin. but he is hanging on