Fish check up please in QT

Cflip · Apr 23, 2017

I think they look OK. Not eating well yet. Only concern is Anthias poop. Looks white and stringy? I got them on Friday. Didn't add any chemicals yet.

ngoodermuth · Apr 23, 2017

You can feed them metro/focus in food as a dewormer. Should take care of the white, stringy poop. They look good otherwise

What are you feeding? Live blackworms might help get their appetite going.

Cflip · Apr 23, 2017

ngoodermuth said:
You can feed them metro/focus in food as a dewormer. Should take care of the white, stringy poop. They look good otherwise

What are you feeding? Live blackworms might help get their appetite going.

Wish I could get some live food. Tried three different frozen so far and pellets. I'll order some meds just in case. Thanks.

Cflip · Apr 23, 2017

ngoodermuth said:
You can feed them metro/focus in food as a dewormer. Should take care of the white, stringy poop. They look good otherwise

What are you feeding? Live blackworms might help get their appetite going.

Hard to see but poop photo is the last one.

ngoodermuth · Apr 23, 2017

Cflip said:
Wish I could get some live food. Tried three different frozen so far and pellets. I'll order some meds just in case. Thanks.

Frozen cyclops got my leopard eating, and I have nutrimar ova on order to try with my mandarin. All my fish except the regal go nuts for black worms. Even my little minnows [emoji38]

Cflip · Apr 23, 2017

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ngoodermuth said:
Frozen cyclops got my leopard eating, and I have nutrimar ova on order to try with my mandarin. All my fish except the regal go nuts for black worms. Even my little minnows [emoji38]

I just ordered some freeze dried black worms. Hope that is OK?

Cflip · Apr 23, 2017

ngoodermuth said:
Frozen cyclops got my leopard eating, and I have nutrimar ova on order to try with my mandarin. All my fish except the regal go nuts for black worms. Even my little minnows [emoji38]

Do you think I should add metroplex to the water? I don't have focus yet. I was going to dose prazi but didn't yet.

ngoodermuth · Apr 23, 2017

Cflip said:
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I just ordered some freeze dried black worms. Hope that is OK?

Not quite the same, nutritionally, but worth a try

the idea is to find one thing they like and expand from there

Cflip · Apr 23, 2017

Cflip said:
Do you think I should add metroplex to the water? I don't have focus yet. I was going to dose prazi but didn't yet.

@Humblefish

Fishfinder · Apr 23, 2017

I just got some anthias that didn't want to eat for 4 days. Cyclops is what got them going.

ngoodermuth · Apr 23, 2017

I wouldn't do prazi and metro together. You can dose the water with metro, but obviously keep working on getting them eating so you can feed it to him when you get the focus. It's ok to feed and treat the water at the same time.

4FordFamily · Apr 23, 2017

With blackworms I find that the movement is what triggers the feeding response so readily, so freeze dried or frozen won't do that, nutrition aside.

However, its still worth a try

melypr1985 · Apr 23, 2017

Cflip said:
Do you think I should add metroplex to the water? I don't have focus yet. I was going to dose prazi but didn't yet.

If the fish aren't eating, then your only choice is to add it to the water. The fish drink some of the water they are in so it's likely that some of the medication will make it to their gut. When you get them eating, you can switch to feeding the metroplex to them.

Cflip · Apr 23, 2017

melypr1985 said:
If the fish aren't eating, then your only choice is to add it to the water. The fish drink some of the water they are in so it's likely that some of the medication will make it to their gut. When you get them eating, you can switch to feeding the metroplex to them.

So I should hold off on prazi and copper treatment while in QT and address this first? Maybe it's just stress from shipping?