Great to hear! I've heard good things about clear but luckily never had to personally use it. I'd just feel weird using the syringe and force feeding it. But if it saves the fishes life that's all that matters.
Need a little advice.
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I know exactly where you are coming from. The first time I had to treat a flower horn with clear I was really freaked out about putting the syringe into his mouth and pushing it all the way into his stomach. I just kept telling myself that either I do this, and get it right, or this fish is going to die. This was a beautiful KK that had been imported from Thailand and was not eating at all for me. Well after I injected him for 5 days and he began eating again I knew that I had saved his life and he went from a 3 inch fish that wouldn't eat anything into a monstrous 10 inch male that was an aggressive beast.
If you have done the treatment for five days and changed 50% of the water each day during the treatment he should be healthy and ready to eat. I wouldn't start with pellets, I would start with bloodworm. If he doesn't eat tomorrow then I would change another 50% of the water and try to feed him the next day with bloodworm again. I have had fish that are acting super hungry and aggressive after 4 days of treatment but I still complete the 5 days to make sure I have cleared the infection. Then on the sixth day they devour any food i give to them. But I have also had a Kamfa that I treated for 5 days and then on the sixth day he was acting very scared of me and didn't want to eat. So I did another water change and by the seventh day he was eating again perfectly.
Just be aware that it is possible for him to get the internal infection back if he finds any of his infected feces hiding under any of the decorations. Often times cichlids will briefly consume their own feces in the process of determining if its food. Then they spit it out when they realize its not. Unfortunately with hex and other internal infections that is all it takes to reinfect the fish. Make sure on your next gravel cleaning that you are extra vigilant in finding any hidden spots that his waste might be collecting in.
