Nope...he nosed around for the first week we got him and then at the end of the week...he was munching away. We've had him for about 2 months now...so I know he's not starving away. My frag tank I've noticed has become a nursery for copepods lately so sometimes what I do is take a turkey baster and suck them off the walls of the tank and relocate them to the 30 gal tank for good old toby to munch away. By the way...I don't name the fish...my wife does.