So I bought a crosshatch trigger about 5 months ago back in november. When I bought him he was only eating ghost shrimp and was pretty pale. I made a special blend of shrimp, scallop, atlantic salmon, squid, octopus and clam. He ate that right up and ate like a pig while in qt. Coloration got beautiful. He wouldn't eat anything else though so I decided to thaw his food and put small cut up pieces of nori and pellets in it. The punk not only tried it and spit it out but he went on a food strike for about 3 weeks. He would only get the cube in his mouth and spit it out. After about 3 weeks he started eating again. I would hand feed him roughly 2 average size cubes of my special blend 3 to 4 times a day. Sometimes he would even eat more because after he was done with his food he would go for the bigger chunks that was meant for is other tank mates. Well, I made a mistake and my fishes ended up with flukes. After doing plenty of reading on prazipro i treated my main tank. Well, between the prazi and the fact i was dosing my tank with vitamin c and having to cut my skimmer uv light carbon purigen and gfo my tank clarity went to crap, got super cloudy after 5 days of treating with prazi i did a 60 gallon water change on my 225 gallon with 100gallon sump, ran skimmer uv etc for 3 days. Water cleared up somewhat but not crystal clear as it was in the beginning. Redosed prazi for 3 more days but i just couldn't stand the white milky water and my fishes all started breathing hard so i did another 60 gallon water change and ran skimmer uv etc etc all over again. Water cleared up a enough to the point where i can see my fish through the water but still looks cloudy as heck.
Since before i realized it was flukes until now its been roughly A MONTH (30 DAYS) since my trigger has even looked at food. For these 30 days not only has he not touched or looked at any food but he only hides in 1 of two places wedged up in the rocks. He has lost coloration and looks more pale than when i originally purchased him. His belly still looks fat but i'm super worried this won't be for much longer. I even tried offering clams on a shell and dropping them right in front of him. He will look at them then look at me as if saying no thank you. I plan on going to my lfs later and buying a few dollars worth of ghost shrimp. I don't want him to die, what else can i do. His tank mates are all eating and look good. nobody is bothering him, i don't understand.
tank info:
225 gallon with 100 gallon sump (sump holds on average about 75-80 gallons)
tank mates include
achilles tang 4"
black tang 2.5"
blonde naso 4"
lt tang 4"
blue hippo 1.5"
moorish idol 3.5"
blue face angel 4"
regal angel 4"
2 clowns
5 bartletts
6 fire gobies
stary bleny
pink spot goby
bullet goby
cleaner wrasse
neon goby
royal gramma
coral beauty
potters angel
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Since before i realized it was flukes until now its been roughly A MONTH (30 DAYS) since my trigger has even looked at food. For these 30 days not only has he not touched or looked at any food but he only hides in 1 of two places wedged up in the rocks. He has lost coloration and looks more pale than when i originally purchased him. His belly still looks fat but i'm super worried this won't be for much longer. I even tried offering clams on a shell and dropping them right in front of him. He will look at them then look at me as if saying no thank you. I plan on going to my lfs later and buying a few dollars worth of ghost shrimp. I don't want him to die, what else can i do. His tank mates are all eating and look good. nobody is bothering him, i don't understand.
tank info:
225 gallon with 100 gallon sump (sump holds on average about 75-80 gallons)
tank mates include
achilles tang 4"
black tang 2.5"
blonde naso 4"
lt tang 4"
blue hippo 1.5"
moorish idol 3.5"
blue face angel 4"
regal angel 4"
2 clowns
5 bartletts
6 fire gobies
stary bleny
pink spot goby
bullet goby
cleaner wrasse
neon goby
royal gramma
coral beauty
potters angel
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