In short: patient is a male tomato clownfish who is solo in a 128L tank for the last 5 years or so. Have him for 9 years and he was already adult when I got him. Tank is well established, no water problems. After I was out of the country for 3 weeks during April found him extremely weak (person left in charge of the tank is old and didn't noticed that he was talking the pellets but not eating them) . I managed to recover him completely using mysis. About a week ago I noticed he didn't came out for food, but weather was really bad and atmospheric pressure was swinging crazy so I blamed it on that. 5 days ago he showed up in a frenzy, hitting rocks, with one eye clouded and bulging, the body discoloured and a couple of almost white vertical stripes. After he calmed down the body color recovered partially and the vertical white strips disappeared. (they were due to stress as far as I can tell). But now he was gilling very heavily and was hanging on the bottom or at best swimming in the current slightly above some rocks.
Based on everything I know I gave him saturday a FW dip (5 mins in a liter of RO water with 3 drops of methylene blue and a splash of aquarium water). This clearly improved his condition as he now swims slowly around the tank, having no problem navigating around and the breathing is somehow slower but not normal. Checked the container but found only 3-4 tiny white "could be worms" maybe 1mm long and very thin. Another one was hanging back out of his left gill when I returned him to the tank.
Yesterday I dosed prazi to about 2.5mg/ liter of aquarium water. Poor guy is not worse but not better either, still swimming slowly around the tank and not caring if a mysis floats right in front of him. It is worth mentioning that he appears to be sometimes slightly inclined on his left (maybe at 5 mins instead of 0 as looking at him from the front) His body color is now normal.
Any idea how can I make him take some food? The impression is that he only needs to do that in order to make a full recovery. As you can imagine I'm quite fond of the little fellow and would hate to see him slowly starve to death.
Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
Based on everything I know I gave him saturday a FW dip (5 mins in a liter of RO water with 3 drops of methylene blue and a splash of aquarium water). This clearly improved his condition as he now swims slowly around the tank, having no problem navigating around and the breathing is somehow slower but not normal. Checked the container but found only 3-4 tiny white "could be worms" maybe 1mm long and very thin. Another one was hanging back out of his left gill when I returned him to the tank.
Yesterday I dosed prazi to about 2.5mg/ liter of aquarium water. Poor guy is not worse but not better either, still swimming slowly around the tank and not caring if a mysis floats right in front of him. It is worth mentioning that he appears to be sometimes slightly inclined on his left (maybe at 5 mins instead of 0 as looking at him from the front) His body color is now normal.
Any idea how can I make him take some food? The impression is that he only needs to do that in order to make a full recovery. As you can imagine I'm quite fond of the little fellow and would hate to see him slowly starve to death.
Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
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