Platy won't eat

dbleoh7 · #1 (**permalink**) 23-09-2006, 12:23 AM

I recently bought a platy and a crab for a semi-new (2 weeks old) 5G aquarium that I have set up. The problem is, whenever I put food into the aquarium, the food circulates on top and then gets pushed to the sea floor of the aquarium by the filter. They crab then scavenges around for about 2 hours collecting all of this food, while the platy gets none. Is there a reason that my platy won't eat food from the surface of the water?? thank you in advance

happychappy · #2 (**permalink**) 26-09-2006, 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by dbleoh7

I recently bought a platy and a crab for a semi-new (2 weeks old) 5G aquarium that I have set up. The problem is, whenever I put food into the aquarium, the food circulates on top and then gets pushed to the sea floor of the aquarium by the filter. They crab then scavenges around for about 2 hours collecting all of this food, while the platy gets none. Is there a reason that my platy won't eat food from the surface of the water?? thank you in advance

hi,
your platy may be lonley, do you have any other fish in the aqurium??? But i would get another opionion, because i haven't had a tank that long, and when all me fish died except 1

he wouldn't eat anything until a got him a matching platy.

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