Sailfin about to die. Help!

[ohio reefer]

I was on a class trip and had one of my lfs watch over my fish. I was gone for about 1.5 weeks. This whole time they did not feed my fish once, my wrasse are good because of my copepods, and everything sees to be recovering except my sailfin. It is still breathing but not swimming, it's paper thin and I've tried his usual sea weed, mysis, flake, brine. He won't eat anything. What can I do? I moved him into his own tank and I'm freaking out

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[Connie]

Doesn't look promising. Poor thing, that is so sad. Try soaking his favorite food in garlic. That will entice them to eat a lot of times. You might also put some Selcon on it. I would be livid with the LFS, that is inexcusable.

 

[rworegon]

I'm sorry for the trouble you are having. You could try soaking the food in garlic to stimulate appetite. I don't usually use garlic, don't think it has any health benefit other than appetite stimulant but in this case it might work.
Was there any algae growing on the rocks in your tank? They can usually graze for a few days on that without food.
I can't imagine my sailfin being thin. She's the chubbiest tang I've ever seen and is a pig.
The last thing I would do is lose the number of that LFS. I hope you didn't pay them for the tank sitting.

 

[ohio reefer]

I'm sorry for the trouble you are having. You could try soaking the food in garlic to stimulate appetite. I don't usually use garlic, don't think it has any health benefit other than appetite stimulant but in this case it might work.
Was there any algae growing on the rocks in your tank? They can usually graze for a few days on that without food.
I can't imagine my sailfin being thin. She's the chubbiest tang I've ever seen and is a pig.
The last thing I would do is lose the number of that LFS. I hope you didn't pay them for the tank sitting.

There not getting a penny. I had two sailfins, one I had for a week and then donated to a different lfs 900 gallon, this girl I raised from being the smallest I've ever seen to about 3 inches, so I haven't had her that long. There was plenty of algae for her to graze, how ever the lights were off for the while time they were sitting the tank. They claimed the window near by was enough light for the fish to see, that may be true but it is certainly not enough for my clams and anemones. I'll try garlic


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[Trex]

How skinny was it before your left?

Would think that a healthy tang would be able to find enough algae in the tank to make it 10 days.

Correct me if I am wrong, but you have a bunch of dead rock in there?

 

[ohio reefer]

How skinny was it before your left?

Would think that a healthy tang would be able to find enough algae in the tank to make it 10 days.

Correct me if I am wrong, but you have a bunch of dead rock in there?

It wasn't fat, but not skinny. I took out the dead rock as you suggested because of phosphates and it was curry with 10 lbs of live rock. I'm placing it back in the tank tonight.


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[ohio reefer]

RIP sandy she stopped breathing an hour ago


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