Need help

[erironmsn]

I have a square back atheist I got a few days ago I've notice it hasn't been eating and today wasn't active I moved him to a 10 gallon tank I had running he still doesn't look good at all just sitting against a rock any ideas what I can try to help this fish

 

[Eienna]

Can you supply a photo?
Do you have access to live brine or glass shrimp?

 

[erironmsn]

No I don't have access at the moment

 

[erironmsn]

Here's a pic before I moved it

 

[eliramos]

any garlic to entice feeding?

 

[erironmsn]

Not till tomorrow if it makes it

 

[Flatbrook]

any garlic to entice feeding?

Plus1

 

[Flatbrook]

I have used a small amount of garlic juice from my minced garlic jar added to pellet food before with good results.

 

[Eienna]

Try cyclop-eeze but you may be too late :/

 

[erironmsn]

I'm goin to try that right now

 

[Eienna]

I don't see anything obviously wrong from the photo, other than being kind of thin. I would suspect either internal parasites or starvation or both.

 

[erironmsn]

I tried that

 

[Eienna]

I tried that

What, the cyclopeeze or the garlic?

 

[erironmsn]

I feed my tanks cylo every 3 days

 

[erironmsn]

Put a few pellets in garlic juice and no responds from the fish it's still just sitting against a piece of live rock

 

[Eienna]

Hmmm. With no access to live food you may be out of luck...

Hey, I don't know if it'll work, but how about live copepods? Many LFSs carry Tigger-Pods. They're not cheap but it's a chance you could take to try and get him started. If he won't eat them they're always good for your tank.

You might also have luck with nutramar ova. I've found that it's a little bit like fishy candy XD

It does sound like this fish is probably done for, but if you want to keep trying...

 

[NanaReefer]

It would be quicker to hatch out some baby brine shrimp, 24hrs. Live food and nutritious too.


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[Flatbrook]

Exactly how long have you had the fish? Was it active when you first put him in there?

 

[erironmsn]

I've had the fish for a lil over a week he was active the first few days then went into hiding.

 

[erironmsn]

Well the fish didn't make it he's off to the big reef in the sky