Hello Everyone.
I have a flower horn that stopped accepting pellets and has a sunken belly.
I had recently moved my 7" flower horn to a 29 tank, and after the tank move, he seemed quite normal. I understand that the tank is small for him, I'll deal with that in the future once he's back to normal. The tank is filtered with a large sponge filter and 2 aquaclear 50s. One has your standard sponge, filter floss, and ceramic media. The other one is just filled with ceramic media. I moved him to the tank on 3/17, and I did give the media a quick shake/rinse in old tank water to dislodge debris and such. I don't know the water parameters, because I, unfortunately, don't have any test kits on hand. I'm gonna go to Petco and PetSmart after posting this so I can get my water tested and I'll post the results. I'd imagine the water quality is at least acceptable, and not the cause of why he's not eating. Anyways, he always had a round belly, and after the move, I guess he's always been a little constipated cause the new tank helped him pass a lot of his feces. Now, he has a worryingly sunken belly, all in the span of about 3 days. He won't accept pellets, but there still is a feeding response, it's like he goes for them, makes a coughing motion with his jaw, and then turns away. I've gotten him to eat some bloodworms, however. Besides the obvious sunken belly, there isn't much of a physical change in his shape. His Kok has not deflated, and his colors have not changed in a noticeable way. But today he's now quite lethargic, hanging either near the top of the tank or near the bottom. I did get him to eat a small number of bloodworms.
I pretty much exclusively fed him Hikari cichlid gold, and I've had him for I think almost a year.
There are no other tank mates with him.
The tank is about 76 f, and one side is noticeably more sunken in than the other.
I haven't seen any white stringy feces, all of his stools have been normal.
I want to know what I can do to get him healthy again.
I have a flower horn that stopped accepting pellets and has a sunken belly.
I had recently moved my 7" flower horn to a 29 tank, and after the tank move, he seemed quite normal. I understand that the tank is small for him, I'll deal with that in the future once he's back to normal. The tank is filtered with a large sponge filter and 2 aquaclear 50s. One has your standard sponge, filter floss, and ceramic media. The other one is just filled with ceramic media. I moved him to the tank on 3/17, and I did give the media a quick shake/rinse in old tank water to dislodge debris and such. I don't know the water parameters, because I, unfortunately, don't have any test kits on hand. I'm gonna go to Petco and PetSmart after posting this so I can get my water tested and I'll post the results. I'd imagine the water quality is at least acceptable, and not the cause of why he's not eating. Anyways, he always had a round belly, and after the move, I guess he's always been a little constipated cause the new tank helped him pass a lot of his feces. Now, he has a worryingly sunken belly, all in the span of about 3 days. He won't accept pellets, but there still is a feeding response, it's like he goes for them, makes a coughing motion with his jaw, and then turns away. I've gotten him to eat some bloodworms, however. Besides the obvious sunken belly, there isn't much of a physical change in his shape. His Kok has not deflated, and his colors have not changed in a noticeable way. But today he's now quite lethargic, hanging either near the top of the tank or near the bottom. I did get him to eat a small number of bloodworms.
I pretty much exclusively fed him Hikari cichlid gold, and I've had him for I think almost a year.
There are no other tank mates with him.
The tank is about 76 f, and one side is noticeably more sunken in than the other.
I haven't seen any white stringy feces, all of his stools have been normal.
I want to know what I can do to get him healthy again.