Angelfish No longer swallowing food
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Ok, just seems weird from what you have described, no serious aggression towards it, no new tank mates that could have recently triggered an outbreak. Hmmm. Perhaps something intestinal besides IP's is causing it to go off its feed? Or maybe a chronic low level case of stress from his angel tank mates just caught up to him? Hopefully it clears up with treatment, good luck.
I think it could be Hex, he had some patchy white “sores” that were around his mouth and eyes. I gave him an epsom salt bath and they went away. This was about a two weeks ago. Also didn’t help that last week during a water change I was removing some small amazon swords that never really grew and they're roots where interconnected with every other sword in the tank, so I accidentally uprooted everything. I think these incidents and the constant low level aggression from my other angels might have finally gotten to him. He doesn’t look too bad in QT though, still does what cichlid should do and acknowledges my presence in the room.
Should I hook up a spare ac50 to the QT? It’s a small tank so don’t think a sponge filter would be enough
If it is Spironucleus vortens aka Hexamita, you might as well treat the entire main tank, because everything in there will now be exposed to the parasites.
Sweet, anyways an update on the Angel, little guy is eating again but not very much. Like he'd eat some flakes but then for other's he'd chew and then spit out. Also his bowel movements where a mixture of normal waste and white stringy poop. I vacuum the detritus away during a 25% water change on his little QT tank. Keeping the water temp at 80-81 F.
The fellers doing okay I think. I'd do a dose of metroplex per instructions, then for the rest of the day he'd no longer be interested in food, then the next day he'll go back to sampling food again. I'll leave him with the metroplex for 2 weeks or so, since that's how long sea chem says for hex.
