Green Terror, 33 days without eating
- Thread starter Galactik
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Does anyone here know more or less how long can a fish like this go without eating?
This is the part that concerns me given that its been over a month now.
I tried reading online but almost everything i found said a couple weeks or longer for bigger fish. However mine is not particularly big (5-6").
This is the part that concerns me given that its been over a month now.
I tried reading online but almost everything i found said a couple weeks or longer for bigger fish. However mine is not particularly big (5-6").
I had a Victorian cichlid that refused to eat for two months, and wasted away to ultimate death. His color remained vibrant, continued to fight territorially, and attempted to eat but spit out the food, for a long while. When a fish abruptly refuses to eat, it could be indication of internal parasitic or bacterial infection. Symptoms may not be visible outside for a long while, or never till death. I have no success treating fasting fish, medicine or live food enticement.
I have a share of GT death from self starvation, but symptoms showed up shortly
I have a share of GT death from self starvation, but symptoms showed up shortly
I raised this GT from juvie for about a year that turned into a gorgeous male. Unfortunately, it suddenly caught a systemic infection with the first sign of, appearance of a small white dot in the forehead, and gradual development of swollen lips. I know he will die in a week as I had lost GT with exact same symptoms previously. At the mean time , he still shows good color, and behaves normally except not eating. I’m not aware of any effective treatment, but, doesn't seem to be contagious, so I let him runs his course and took a few pics for memory.
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Here is my old ass amphilophus lysoni that sulked for almost two months after his lady friend passed. I threw everything from frozen, fresh, and treats into his tank and he wouldn’t touch a thing and really thought he would just pass away. I had a handful of their spawn in the tank that was fed daily using 3mm Northfin pellets with the weekly dose of frozen krill, bloodworms, brine shrimp, and plankton and just like that he ravaged the hell out of just the bloodworms then immediately started to eat daily after. God knows why he didn’t eat but he’s 12 years old this year, looks a little raggedy but is still active and eats daily. Here is after two months of not eating, you can really see the sunken stomach.
I tried soaking frozen bloodworms with pellets and my gt still won't take as I'm going through the same as the op.
Last thing I want to do is to humanely euthanize him but I want to give him more time. If no success in another month, then I will have to. I'd hate see my guy suffer. I've tried frozen food, peas, pellets, bug bites, flake, pellets with garlic guard and pellets soaked with garlic guard with seachem metro for possible internal issues.
