Meds and Appetite Suppression

[mjreefs]

Hello all,

I know appetite suppression could be one of the effects of some meds we give like copper and prazi. I have a chrysurus angelfish currently in DT. It ate pellets with much gusto prior to copper. I added copper slowly and it still ate much until I performed an FW dip (to confirm flukes). It still ate but not as much like last time. I then proceeded with Prazipro (I just wanted to be sure it’s free of flukes and worms) and suddenly it turned down on pellets. It ate a few pellets here and there but not as much like last time, it would even sometimes spit it out. But here’s the surprising thing: it loves mysis and voraciously eats them post-prazipro. I’m not sure if it’s really appetite suppression or something else entirely. Any thoughts? Thanks!

 

[Old Fritz]

the mysis is probably more palatable to the fish than pellets. As long as the fish is eating even a little I wouldn't worry too much. I would only do one treatment at a time as doing multiple at the same time is incredibly stressful to the fish