please help! flowerhorn still has not eaten

[pikey0151]

It is sure is, make sure you buy the aquarium stuff and its powder. The ones for human use works also, but they are tablets and they don't dissolve easily. The tablets for aquarium use doesn't dissolve easily also. This site will tell you how to use it coming from hobbyist who successfully cured hex with metro multiple times when Epsom Salt isn't available.

http://www.flowerhorncraze.com/index.php?showtopic=54757&st=0&start=0

thanks i have just tried feeding peas and he has not eaten again.
should i force feed him??
thanks

 

[hamfist]

It is sure is, make sure you buy the aquarium stuff and its powder. The ones for human use works also, but they are tablets and they don't dissolve easily. The tablets for aquarium use doesn't dissolve easily also. This site will tell you how to use it coming from hobbyist who successfully cured hex with metro multiple times when Epsom Salt isn't available.

http://www.flowerhorncraze.com/index.php?showtopic=54757&st=0&start=0

You cannot get metro over the counter in the UK. Will need to get some from the states.
I have tried grinding up a metro tablet for human use, which I happened to have left over. It simply would not dissolve.

@ xthao3 ... the fish is a flowerhorn, not a frontosa.

 

[BIG_ONE]

You cannot get metro over the counter in the UK. Will need to get some from the states.
I have tried grinding up a metro tablet for human use, which I happened to have left over. It simply would not dissolve.

@ xthao3 ... the fish is a flowerhorn, not a frontosa.

Not even in an Aquarium store? Metronidazole for Aquarium use?

 

[BIG_ONE]

thanks i have just tried feeding peas and he has not eaten again.
should i force feed him??
thanks

It wouldn't make a difference at all. It's not the starvation that is killing him, it's the hex parasites itself.

 

[hamfist]

Not even in an Aquarium store? Metronidazole for Aquarium use?

Nope, needs a prescription from a doctor to get it. It is illegal for a pharmacist to sell it without one. All drugs/medications have far stricter controls in the UK.

A vet could also prescribe it, although finding a vet that knows anything at all about fish is v. unlikely.

 

[pikey0151]

Nope, needs a prescription from a doctor to get it. It is illegal for a pharmacist to sell it without one. All drugs/medications have far stricter controls in the UK.

A vet could also prescribe it, although finding a vet that knows anything at all about fish is v. unlikely.

hello mate, i am just keeping on with the treatment of the water in the tank
but i have orderd that salt (espom or something) and fish zole witch is
Metronidazole. they should be hear in about a week. hopefully he will
hang on that long!

 

[pikey0151]

the espom salt has come and the fish zole hasnt. he is not lookin to healthy atm.
he is just at the top of the tank still not eating. and had a big lump on his ceek. i really hope the fish will hang on till the Metronidazole comes