Fish Not Eating

[monkfish]

Ever since moving my fish into a new tank about a month ago, they my electric blue dempsy and tire track eel have'nt been eating and have been very shy. There not even keen on bloodworms anymore. - In the old tanks they'd demolish bloodworms, flies, earthworms etc and were very confident and eat from my hand. Since moving them to a bigger tank they're not so happy.

Any ideas why they're sulking and how to fix??

Cheers

[Adrienne]

Was it an established tank or a newly set up one? If newly set up have you checked your pH, ammonia etc? Are there as many hiding places for them in the new tank? Being in a larger tank, if there is a lot more open space, it may be scaring them - you may need to add more cover and/or put more dither fish in there to encourage them to come out.

[GuppyHunter]

If they've been in there a month already it shouldn't matter if the tank was cycled or not, a month would be plenty enough time for the nitrogen, especially if the fish were in there the whole time. Like Adrienne said, maybe add a few rocks or something as it could be a matter not having enough hiding places, or too many "open" areas, fish can get very insecure, especially when trying to adapt to a new environment.

[monkfish]

PH and nitrate were algood, will test ammonia nitrite when i can, I added some more driftwood and turned out one of the light tubes which has made the Dempsey more active, but still no sign of the eel over the last week or so...