I have a 6 inch dovii, housed in a 75 gallon who hardly eats. All water seems good no ammonia, nitrite, 20 ppm nitrate, and 7.5 ph. He seems pretty healthy except i see him scratch very seldomly but on occasion. He will kill any fish I put in with him so I know hes in decent shape. He will only take maybe 3 hikari pellets a day and maybe a little bit of mysis. I figure he must have internal parasites, so i treated with praziquantel, with not much success but I did see some dead worms floating in the tank. I keep the temperature at around 84 to keep down stress and parasites. I also use aquarium salt to keep the stress down. When i put food in he comes out like he wants to eat, but usually will ignore it. I just cant understand whats causing him to scratch. I have all also treated with copper with no results. There are 0 signs of external parasites but I still think he may have something. Any advice?
He has a fairly sunken in belly, but I noticed online a lot of male doviis have similair bellies even being healthy.
Btw I have also tried almost any foods I can think of from dried to frozen to live.
He has a fairly sunken in belly, but I noticed online a lot of male doviis have similair bellies even being healthy.
Btw I have also tried almost any foods I can think of from dried to frozen to live.
