Flowerhorn won't eat

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Fenbendazole puppy de-worm medication. Light green box with 3 packet in powder. Thaw a cube of blood worms and mix 1/4 of a packet with the blood worm. Let it sit for an hour to give a good soak with the medication into the blood worms. Feed the fish 2-3 times a day with that single cube. Do this process for 3 days straight and it should be a charm against hex, internal worms, and even hernia. If it shows no progress, skip a day and feed with the regulars and repeat the process the following day. Also keep in mind to jump your temperature to 86-88 degrees and keep it steady with a minimal of 1 degrees difference from sun light to moon light. This higher temperature will help speed up the metabolism of the fish during the treatment.
After the fish has been cured to your satisfaction, starve the fish for 2-3 days in 86-88 degrees temperature. Give the fish 1 pellet see if it wants to eat it. If not, feed one time for that day ONLY and repeat the process. When you repeat the process, add an extra day of fastening for the fish. Keep repeating until your fish starts to take in the pellets. Afterwards, you can drop your temperature into the low 80's temperature.
Here's a small tip - Please keep the temperature steady without a lot of swings. Temperature swings will cause the fish(flowerhorn in general) to catch hex easily. Also make sure the bottom temperature of the tank is the same as the above depth of the tank(this can give them hex as well). To improve this, there must be enough flow circulating the tank.

And last of all - PLEASE TREAT IT IMMEDIATELY.
 
BIG_ONE said:
Fenbendazole puppy de-worm medication. Light green box with 3 packet in powder. Thaw a cube of blood worms and mix 1/4 of a packet with the blood worm. Let it sit for an hour to give a good soak with the medication into the blood worms. Feed the fish 2-3 times a day with that single cube. Do this process for 3 days straight and it should be a charm against hex, internal worms, and even hernia. If it shows no progress, skip a day and feed with the regulars and repeat the process the following day. Also keep in mind to jump your temperature to 86-88 degrees and keep it steady with a minimal of 1 degrees difference from sun light to moon light. This higher temperature will help speed up the metabolism of the fish during the treatment.
After the fish has been cured to your satisfaction, starve the fish for 2-3 days in 86-88 degrees temperature. Give the fish 1 pellet see if it wants to eat it. If not, feed one time for that day ONLY and repeat the process. When you repeat the process, add an extra day of fastening for the fish. Keep repeating until your fish starts to take in the pellets. Afterwards, you can drop your temperature into the low 80's temperature.
Here's a small tip - Please keep the temperature steady without a lot of swings. Temperature swings will cause the fish(flowerhorn in general) to catch hex easily. Also make sure the bottom temperature of the tank is the same as the above depth of the tank(this can give them hex as well). To improve this, there must be enough flow circulating the tank.

And last of all - PLEASE TREAT IT IMMEDIATELY.
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It too a good variant, don't tighten with treatment
 
thanks for this BIG_ONE ill give this a try, there should be plenty of circulation in the tank. Ive got two aquaclear 110's and an aqueon circulation pump. I'm going to sell the red devil, I've been watching the behavior of the female flowerhorn and noticed whenever the red devil came by she would hide in her cave.
 
well the good lord took my red devil as i found him dead on the floor when i woke up this morning. My sister forgot to close the lids when she was feeding him and there he was on the floor. The female flowerhorn seems to be fine now since the red devil is no longer with us, i boosted the temperature up to 86 and its steady. I was thinking of buying either a strawberry or a neo fly dragon or even a golden monkey.
 
It is a pity.
I hope at purchase new, you will choose more carefully fish. Long observe, estimate not only its external data but also its behavior. Can yes ask to feed the seller fish and don't trust if to you will tell that FH it is full, young and healthy FH it is hungry always.
 
i went back to a local store and picked up two more flowerhorns both about 1.5inches . I tried feeding them flakes they ate some of them but spat the rest out. Same with the brine shrimp they just spat it out. Trying to figure this out.
 
It is difficult to do conclusions, without knowing all information on fish and maintenance conditions. But that that FH doesn't pay attention to a forage it is an illness sign.
When fish takes a forage and then spits out, probably she has got used to other type of forages, there can be it stress or bad conditions of the maintenance.
I had an experience of acquisition of fish which was on the journey 2 days. In 3-4 hours of adaptation to new water, they started to eat as elephants. Some took in local shop, there were many problems with this fish. As a result I have cured them, but they don't give posterity.
 
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