Thin Fish

[Magickiwi]

Originally Posted by Coralgurl

Been watching my fish over the past while and noticing a couple are getting thin. I typically feed a mix of frozen food, occasionally pellets and nori.

No, I'm not a newb but this is the first time I'm seeing this happen. All the fish are aggressive eaters and no one seems to go without. I watch the ones that seem a bit thin and they are all eating. How do I get these guys to fatten back up? Ones I'm concerned about is an anthia, lubbocks wrasse and my sailfin tang. The others are all fat and look great. No diseases that I can see.

For frozen, I mix cyclopeeze, Mysis, Pacifica Plankton and occasionally others (no brine) just to mix things up for them. I generally feed once per day, in the evenings as they aren't all up when I leave for work in the mornings.

I drop food until they are no longer hanging around at the surface, seems that's about the time they lose interest or have had enough, plus there's food in the water column.

Should I add an auto feeder for pellets during the day and frozen at night?

I watch the waistlines of my fish too. I like them fat and happy

How do you get your fish to lose interest in food though? lol Whenever there is food in the water column mine go ape-sh*t making sure they eat as much as possible.

[Coralgurl]

Originally Posted by Magickiwi

I watch the waistlines of my fish too. I like them fat and happy

How do you get your fish to lose interest in food though? lol Whenever there is food in the water column mine go ape-sh*t making sure they eat as much as possible.

They haven't lost interest, they eat, just getting thin. I was out this aft for work, so stopped by Concept and picked up more pellets and pacifica plankton. Gonna double feed for a while and see if they fatten back up!

[Magickiwi]

Originally Posted by Coralgurl

They haven't lost interest, they eat, just getting thin. I was out this aft for work, so stopped by Concept and picked up more pellets and pacifica plankton. Gonna double feed for a while and see if they fatten back up!

The only thing I might be thinking is parasite. See anything else that could indicate that? Maybe some garlic pellets to see if it helps?

[Coralgurl]

Originally Posted by Magickiwi

The only thing I might be thinking is parasite. See anything else that could indicate that? Maybe some garlic pellets to see if it helps?

I haven't seen anything noticeable on them. Could be a worm or something internal. I fed the pellets and frozen tonight, all are eating but noticed the anthia wouldn't touch the pellets.

I have seachem para guard on hand, will read if reef safe.

[hillegom]

My bottle of prazipro says its ok in reef systems. But it will kill flatworms of the order POLYCLADIDA
I'm not sure, but I think that would kill feather dusters.

[Coralgurl]

Originally Posted by hillegom

My bottle of prazipro says its ok in reef systems. But it will kill flatworms of the order POLYCLADIDA
I'm not sure, but I think that would kill feather dusters.

Para guard is for external parasites. I think I will follow the additional feedings for now. Frozen food has garlic mixed in. I am not comfortable treating meds in the dt and I'm not confident I can set up a qt quick enough to be effective.

[Coralgurl]

I've been watching my fish and here's what I'm observing.

Sailfin - has approx 1/2" long flat back poop and 2 white stringy things hanging out of its anus. This definitely does not look normal. She normally is a strong swimmer, but she looks like she's getting blown around a bit by the power heads.





I haven't witnessed the others pooping.

Is prazipro my only option here?