Saddleback Butterfly HELP!

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This saddleback just came out of quarantine into a 110g with a squirrelfish, humu trigger, scorpionfish and snowflake eel. He has started primarily today scratching and not eating. (Tried mysis, brine, garlic guard, clams, nori, pellets and have even let some hair algae grow in hopes he would be interested) (he is housed with some zoas but they don’t seem to have been picked on) Thoughts or recommendations?

ammonia: 0.25
pH: 8.2
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 5ppm
Salinity: 1.024

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What did you treat with in quarantine?

I cab only see some redness which could be an injury.
Sometimes fish will scratch if they came out of copper, not eating is not a concern if you just introduced it.
 
Poor fish, I hate to do it to a fish right out of QT but did you try a fresh water dip?
 
Copper and hypo-salinity.
@EmdeReef

I haven’t done anything yet hoping for some input but freshwater crossed my mind. @MERKEY
 
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