Green Terror Rescue, Bad Shape

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RangerBlue381

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Someone dropped this guy at the LFS. Was treated terribly by the original owner. LFS medicated but offered him to me for free saying I can take more specialized care than he could. Looks like he could have beautiful colors and nice hump if recovers. Qt'ed and meds to try to get back to shape. Has anyone had anyone in this condition, what were the results and what are your recommendations. Here's the one decent pic. Please let me know. Thank youuploadfromtaptalk1400029973534.jpg

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I've never had a fish in that condition before so i can't relate but good on you for saving that fish dude! Hope he recovers.
 
Looks like part of the gill has been ripped off. I had that happen to a fish once, unfortunately, and it never healed (grew back). Didn't kill him though.
 
Looks in a bad shape, I think the worst part is how skinny he is, so if you feed him up well he should get better.
 
I gave a day off without food for acclimation and figure starting food tonight. Would a combo of floating and sinking cichlid pellets be a good move?

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Maybe try some Clout on him and feed NLS spectra food. Does he swim around well? Give him a week or so and if no improvement it may be kinder to put him down. This may be a cruel sounding statement but after a certain point you are just continuing his torture. His gill plate probably won't grow back but he can live that way. We had a fish that never had a gill plate and it was fine. Best of luck with him his best hope now will be his will to live.
 
If you have it available, I would stick to floating food. If he doesn't eat it, floating food will be easier to remove without further stressing the fish. However, I've seen much worse, to the point that their heads were sunk in. I think that with a steady diet of good food, some clean water, and a little bit of medication, this fish will be back in shape in just a couple months with only a few scars left as reminders of how good he has it now.
 
He swims fine, the lfs had him a week and was getting him on meds. Haven't seen him eat, but he does look better overall, just need to make sure he's gaining weight.
I can deal with one fish eating another fish since that's part of nature but when someone treats their fish to that point it annoys me to no end.
I really respect the LFS though saying that he'd much rather have me take it at no cost and try to give it the best situation it can have and more individual attention than he can give as compared to those that seem like they know everything.
We'll see over the next week. Outside of the gill plate I think the fish has the making of some stunning coloring if things work out right

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