Coperband stoped eating

[joaocarlos13]

Hello guys, my coperband stoped eating 2 days ago, i dont know what has changed, he was eating clams for four months.
Im suspecting a disease or stress, all the fishs try to eat on his coperband feader

What should i do? Treat him on a qt tank? Or leave him alone on a improvised tank?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hello guys, my coperband stoped eating 2 days ago, i dont know what has changed, he was eating clams for four months.
Im suspecting a disease or stress, all the fishs try to eat on his coperband feader

What should i do? Treat him on a qt tank? Or leave him alone on a improvised tank?

Fish is thin and this is a fish that can suddenly become finicky. Is it breathing normal or labored?
Clam only is not a suggested diet and add plankton and LRS herbivore diet to offerings of food. Also rear fins look to be bitten. What other fish are in with it besides firefish goby?

 

[joaocarlos13]

Hello guys, my coperband stoped eating 2 days ago, i dont know what has changed, he was eating clams for four months.
Im suspecting a disease or stress, all the fishs try to eat on his coperband feader

What should i do? Treat him on a qt tank? Or leave him alone on a improvised tank?

Fish is thin and this is a fish that can suddenly become finicky. Is it breathing normal or labored?
Clam only is not a suggested diet and add plankton and LRS herbivore diet to offerings of food. Also rear fins look to be bitten. What other fish are in with it besides firefish goby?

Breathing Normaly, i made a Frozen food mix with clams, shrimp, fish and nori that he was eating for almost 2 weeks.
Yes one of the rear fin was bitten but is recovering, i didnt know if it was bitten or was some kind of fin disease, so i start doing more water changes.
I suspect he is stressed because he is living with some tangs, blue tang, kole tang, purole tang and hepatus, two clowfish and two gobys.
I was thinking about doing a tank only for him, to see if he starts to eat and get back the weight i think he lost, what do you think?

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Breathing Normaly, i made a Frozen food mix with clams, shrimp, fish and nori that he was eating for almost 2 weeks.
Yes one of the rear fin was bitten but is recovering, i didnt know if it was bitten or was some kind of fin disease, so i start doing more water changes.
I suspect he is stressed because he is living with some tangs, blue tang, kole tang, purole tang and hepatus, two clowfish and two gobys.
I was thinking about doing a tank only for him, to see if he starts to eat and get back the weight i think he lost, what do you think?

From the video, I can see that it is very thin - so it’s been in a calorie deficit for quite some time. The problem is that fish don’t have a lot of fat stores. When they get thin, that also means that they’ve been living off of muscle mass. Worse is that they also use their liver as food, and eventually, that causes liver failure.

Given the fish’s history I don’t see a treatable disease cause here.