Flowerhorn spitting out food and white stringy poop

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jmf

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Hi

My young flowerhorn isn't eating. He wants his food but just chews it up and spits it out. He also has white poop. I have tried treating him with metro, prazi, epsom salt in both the water column and food. He unfortunately was in a 2ft tank with bad water quality for a little to long whilst I was setting up my 400 gallon.

He is now in a 60 gallon. I moved him a couple of weeks ago but hasn't really eaten since then.

I'm currently treating with tetracycline, as I have read on the webs that it fixed this issue in flowerhorns in a matter of hours but it's been 24h without any change.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks
 
Anyone?
 
The same thing happened to my FH. I treated him with metronidazole powder (if you don’t have the powder form available, you could crush a metronidazole tablet to get it powder). Mix the metro powder with a little bit of fish powder food a little bit of water tank and a little bit of epsom salt. Mix them very well and use a 1 ml syringe. You need to take for FH out, open his mouth and give him the mix. When you return your FH, he will spit most of the food, but a little bit is what is needed. In a couple of days he should be eating well. You could also use a medication called Clear, it’s also inyectable by mouth.
Search in youtube Flowerhorn syringe treatment to see the proper technique.
 
My flowerhorn is currently having the very same issue. And, from what jmf jmf had said, I am also treating it with Metro+ powder, prazipro (though waiting to see if metro works), and epsom salt. I've been doing metro bathe for two days in a row, and just tried injecting some epsom salt w/ his pellet food with a baby nasal pippette (i dont know if that's what it's called, plus I can't find a 1ml syringe ANYWHERE!). Some of the water+epsom salt goes out of its gills, but i'm just hoping some enters his guts. So far, the white poop is slowly decreasing, but he's still not eating and is still not that active most of the time!
 
My fh has these symptoms as well. Not eating, white stringy poop. Is this worms? And de worming is necessary? I'm fairly new to fh and have never heard of anything like this before. His kok is also lumpy.
 
There is posted thread regarding treating hex and other disease. As for cz products, hai got a good video on youtube on how to do it.

Water change, increases temp, epsom salt, pellet soaked to garlic, metro and quarantine tank. This is what i did when my flowerhorn got a hex.
 
I'm new to this forum. I bring good news to it. My Flower Horn named Felix looked to have had a parasite, stringy white pearl necklace like poos for a few days, before that started I noticed his food was being pushed out threw his gills and he has never done that before, then the white poos started. His parameters were fine, nitrates thou were steady at 5.0ppm which he was fine with. I immediately moved him into a 10g hospital tank, frantically tried to look for some meds for him, being in Canada a lot were banned b/c of Covid, thankfully the guy I bought Felix from told me that Amazon sells Metroplex, so I immediately bought some treated the tank w it and Seachem's Stability, Epsom salts, and stress coat, only prob is I had a ammonia burst but soon figured out I should have been changing the h20 every 2 days as soon as I started to do that and fed Felix a few peas with the skins taken off he is on the road to recovery, I failed to mention thou that he prolapsed which freaked me out - that lasted for almost 3 days and this aft when I looked I was totally amazed that the prolapse had retracted back into his body and he had just a small while stringy poo, haven't seen it pearl like yet. I'm soooo happy, I was ready to take him to the fish store and ask if someone could push his prolapsed organ back up as I read that can be done, I was even going to attempt it myself. He will be back in his tall 65g tank soon with his Sun Sun 304b filter and some nice fresh linens and a new pillow to keep him cozy....ha ha!! Soooo the moral of my story is not to loose faith.
 
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