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Hi everyone, you may have seen my previous posts on here. About a month ago I slowly lost a leopard wrasse to what I think was parasites (not sure if external or internal). The wrasse stopped eating and seemed to be blind in its last couple of weeks alive. I did notice the occasional head shake/twitch. Because of that symptom I gave her a 5 minute freshwater dip in a black bucket but found literally nothing on the bottom of the bucket after the dip (no flukes). Added her back to the tank and she still didn’t improve and wasn’t eating. Because the tank is FOWLR I treated it with prazi. She died a week later. I was thinking something neurological and dismissed it.
Well now my potters angelfish is very pale in color for the past couple of days and is doing the head twitch and super darty swimming. He is however still eating. I notice nothing externally unusual about the fish other than pale color. I just gave my first treatment of metro+focus soaked flakes (the only thing he’ll eat) and seemed to eat a few but spit quite a few pieces out.
If things don’t get better soon I’ll pull him and do QT. Was thinking general cure.
Anybody know what this might be? If it was external flukes I would have found them from the leopard wrasse after the dip right? Do internal parasites or anything else cause the head twitch/ spastic swimming behavior?
Will metro help with external parasites?
thanks for any help you can provide.
Well now my potters angelfish is very pale in color for the past couple of days and is doing the head twitch and super darty swimming. He is however still eating. I notice nothing externally unusual about the fish other than pale color. I just gave my first treatment of metro+focus soaked flakes (the only thing he’ll eat) and seemed to eat a few but spit quite a few pieces out.
If things don’t get better soon I’ll pull him and do QT. Was thinking general cure.
Anybody know what this might be? If it was external flukes I would have found them from the leopard wrasse after the dip right? Do internal parasites or anything else cause the head twitch/ spastic swimming behavior?
Will metro help with external parasites?
thanks for any help you can provide.