My New Datnoid not eating.
- Thread starter KarkiPratik
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Just set up an IV drip system and tape a feeding tube to his mouth -- didn't you know that?
Sedate it with clove oil, take a syringe with air tubing, make sure there is no air in the syringe, fill the syringe with food (preferably vitamin enriched foods, frozen foods, crushed up pellets, etc. make sure it's a reasonable amount, don't give it an obscene amount or a very small amount), gently stick the tube in through it's mouth past it's gill plate and gently push the plunger down, injecting the food into it's stomach , I've had to do that numerous times with other fish, albeit they were larger, the smallest of which I did that with was a 6 inch pike cichlid. But ONLY DO THIS AS A LAST RESORT, this is if the fish won't eat after being starved, won't eat after the food on a string, and won't eat after being offered live foods.
Well thanks for clarifying that, like Matthew I was curious how one would go about force feeding a fish. Personally I don't know if I could/would go to that length to keep a fish alive after I had tried so hard every other way, and hope to never be put in the position to decide (esp. as it seems that the whole process of pulling them out to force feed like that might be so stressful it would possibly kill them in their weakened state, esp. with a young Dat), but kudos if you've done it successfully with other fish before.
Well it's worth a shot seeing as nothing else has worked, if you do nothing, they'll die, if you force feed them, they might die. Here is a video of that being done, albeit this is being done on a very large red tail catfish, not a 4 inch datnoid. Frankly, the hardest part is making sure there aren't bubbles in the food mix, you have to turn the syringe upside down and tap it over and over again to get any bubbles out, bubbles in there would result in air entering the stomach which could cause issues, especially seeing as the fish is so weak. Once the fish is sedated, it's easy.
Hmm. I am contemplating this. I have a clown loach that isn’t eating and is almost gone. Literally pulled out the clove oil to put it down, then decided I would try meds first. It’s not eating meds so this seems like an option...
Not sure if I will be able to get it in a cl’s mouth though...?!?!...
Not sure if I will be able to get it in a cl’s mouth though...?!?!...
How big is the loach? you might need to find a way to get a smaller tube (idk how you'd get it though)
Its been almost 2 weeks now. When i drop in the pellets the silver dollars go ham.and the datnoid goes for them to but just ignores and sometimes tries to eat it and spits them out. Anyone help me to gwt this dat to eat?
Mine is much longer and not eating or may eating and I don't see. he just looks at the food ( pellets, superworms, frozen worms, frozen shrimp) , Feeders I am not sure he did eat or not.. since I have other 3 fishes with him.. (HBA, IT, FT)..
