Thank you, glad to hear it isn't just me with this issue. I don't have a gravel vacuum but will most likely get one soon. How exactly do you use just the airline, because I do have that! I found some great articles on Do It Yourself things for fish tanks, and I usually feed him with a long tweezer, so any uneaten food is taken out after a few minutes if he doesn't eat it from the tweezer. I am currently trying to train him to come to the top to eat, but that has yet to happen.

OH and by the way, he ate a little more than half the Reptomin stick today I was so proud. I read that Adults should be eating 2/3, he ate 1/2...he wouldn't eat the other half but I suppose one is better than none.