I have a cleaner wrasse which has been in my display tank for 3 months. I recently added in two new hydor evos and changed up the circulation in the tank. He stopped eating around the time i put the pumps in, i don't remember if it was before or after. A day after i put the pumps in i noticed him eating bubbles off of a pump power cord which was odd, he was also gasping at the surface. I have see fish gasp before when oxygen content was low in fresh water tanks, but i have a big protein skimmer so oxygen content should be good. Plus my clown was not showing any signs of stress so i figured that wasn't it. I tested ph ammonia nitrate nitrite and alkalinity, all are normal. He went to bed 2 hours early last night (he sleeps in a little hole in one of my rocks) An then did not wake up this morning. Three hours after he normally wakes up i figure he is dead and go to pull him out, but after shaking the rock about and trying to suck/blow him out with a turkey baster he come swimming out. He swam about all day acting normally, but he hasn't eaten in 3 days, and still refuses even beef heart which is his favorite. If i can get him eating again i think he will be fine, what can cause fish to stop eating?
Cleaner wrass stoped eating
- Thread starter Ratchnick
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MrTuskfish
Team RC
+1 Most cleaner wrasse have a terrible survival rate.
ingtar_shinowa
New member
Instead of getting snippy look at the hundreds of threads on this. Even eating cleaner wrasse waste away. All you can really do at this point is try additives like selcon. Hope that an apatite inducer works.
sanchoy
New member
-1
IMO every fish is different. I had 3 and all 3 ate frozen and pellets. It depends on your supplier. 2 are still alive after 3+ years, the other one accidentally jumped through the netting and surfed.
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you added new pumps, might want to test for stray voltage.
Food-never met a wrasse that declined black worms. If your LFS has some, try feeding live black worms. If no black worms, then try live brine shrimp.
savemyreef
Member
+1 I had one for over 2 years before I broke my tank down. If you get them from a good supplier they take prepared foods soon after settling down.
What size tank is it?
Are other fish having trouble?
Thanks for the helpful replies. He came back out and gradually started eating again, but he went AWOL today. I checked the sump and moved around some of my rockwork and couldn't find him. I also checked behind the tank and such to see if he jumped. My biggest fear now is that he will die somewhere in the rocks and i will have to tear everything apart to find him.
To answer some questions
My tank is a 60g corner.
I haven't had any problems with my ocellaris, he has been in the tank for at least six months.
Also he has grown a noticeable amount since i bough him, so i know he isn't starving.
To answer some questions
My tank is a 60g corner.
I haven't had any problems with my ocellaris, he has been in the tank for at least six months.
Also he has grown a noticeable amount since i bough him, so i know he isn't starving.
