2 weeks ago I bought 2 fish from my LFS and a couple days later one of them got lethargic and started breathing heavy and died. I started treating the second one with Prazipro at the suggestion of @Jay Hemdal because she was rubbing on rocks and he thought maybe it was gill flukes - she had stringy white poop too, and was not just brine or mysis shrimp - prazipro was on Sunday. I pulled off my protein skimmer cup but left it running and took out my charcoal and left the tank like that for 72 hours, and then did a 25% water change on Wednesday. I plan to do another water change tomorrow before my second dose.
My problem is that my second clownfish stopped eating when I added the Prazipro, which I know can be an appetite suppressant, but she hasn’t started eating again yet and it has been a week. I can occasionally get her to eat some freeze dried brine shrimp, but I have the food she was eating at the LFS (LRS reef frenzy nano) which she won’t eat and I tried frozen shrimp and she wouldn’t touch those either. She looks like she is getting thin to me and now looks like she is having breathing issues as well. I haven’t seen anything on her that would suggest any kind of infection, no fuzz or white dots or anything. Should I be treating with Prazipro tomorrow or is it time to try something different?
Water parameters:
Salinity 1.023
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrates 20
Alk 120
PH 7.8
I am attaching a picture to show how thin she is and linking to a video of the breathing. She has also had her lower fins clamped for about a week now, I don’t know if that means anything either.
Video:
My problem is that my second clownfish stopped eating when I added the Prazipro, which I know can be an appetite suppressant, but she hasn’t started eating again yet and it has been a week. I can occasionally get her to eat some freeze dried brine shrimp, but I have the food she was eating at the LFS (LRS reef frenzy nano) which she won’t eat and I tried frozen shrimp and she wouldn’t touch those either. She looks like she is getting thin to me and now looks like she is having breathing issues as well. I haven’t seen anything on her that would suggest any kind of infection, no fuzz or white dots or anything. Should I be treating with Prazipro tomorrow or is it time to try something different?
Water parameters:
Salinity 1.023
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrates 20
Alk 120
PH 7.8
I am attaching a picture to show how thin she is and linking to a video of the breathing. She has also had her lower fins clamped for about a week now, I don’t know if that means anything either.
Video: