I have a question concerning our Blonde Naso Tang...
We have had her close to a year now. She survived Katrina and being in water temps in the 90's. She survived the seven and a half hour move to Dallas... and all of a sudden... she has stopped eating!
The only thing we can attribute this to is a new RBTA that we put in the tank earlier this past week.
The RBTA is ummm *huge* ... like at least 10" accross. I remember a while back when we tried rescueing a rose from a friend, Betty B. dove in for food and got stung. Her mouth went 90 mph but she never skipped a feeding.
She didn't eat last night nor today... though she is quite the lil fattie... I am very concerned. Her behavior is strange. She's not hiding but knowing her behavior...she is definitely stressed as she is not her normal color, her mouth is moving 90 mph again. She is swimming around, however... she will go to the opposite site of the tank looking towards the XL RBTA. Then she will swim the length of the tank but when she approaches the Anemone Island... she swims low and cautious... almost looks like she's trying to avoid it.
She loves eating out of my hand and won't even do that.
Just did a series of water tests and they all checked out. I know some of you may ask.
I don't see any visible spots, internal bumps, specs, cysts or anything to raise a red flag.
Any suggestions???
I'm just taking a stab at the whole RBTA thing because that's the only change we have had to the tank in the recent weeks.
I appreciate any help or input that yall may have.::::::::::::
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As of today, it's been 6 full days that she has not eaten. Yesterday, she tried... but it almost seemed she had a sore throat as she went after a piece of mysis but spit it back out... other than that one try...she hasn't even attempted to eat.
6 days after not eating... her belly looks very lumpy on both sides. She is still swimming around the tank and very active.... but won't eat.
My thought is that is has to be something internal. I am putting her in our 40g Qt tomorrow but I need to know what to treat her for. Can someone help me?
She is swimming around fine, patroling her tank... her mouth isn't moving 90mph any longer, no hiding, no eratic breathing, no glancing off the rocks.
The other fish are all eating and seem fine. I'm very concerned.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Please help!
Thanks!
We have had her close to a year now. She survived Katrina and being in water temps in the 90's. She survived the seven and a half hour move to Dallas... and all of a sudden... she has stopped eating!
The only thing we can attribute this to is a new RBTA that we put in the tank earlier this past week.
The RBTA is ummm *huge* ... like at least 10" accross. I remember a while back when we tried rescueing a rose from a friend, Betty B. dove in for food and got stung. Her mouth went 90 mph but she never skipped a feeding.
She didn't eat last night nor today... though she is quite the lil fattie... I am very concerned. Her behavior is strange. She's not hiding but knowing her behavior...she is definitely stressed as she is not her normal color, her mouth is moving 90 mph again. She is swimming around, however... she will go to the opposite site of the tank looking towards the XL RBTA. Then she will swim the length of the tank but when she approaches the Anemone Island... she swims low and cautious... almost looks like she's trying to avoid it.
She loves eating out of my hand and won't even do that.
Just did a series of water tests and they all checked out. I know some of you may ask.
I don't see any visible spots, internal bumps, specs, cysts or anything to raise a red flag.
Any suggestions???
I'm just taking a stab at the whole RBTA thing because that's the only change we have had to the tank in the recent weeks.
I appreciate any help or input that yall may have.::::::::::::
__________________________________________________
As of today, it's been 6 full days that she has not eaten. Yesterday, she tried... but it almost seemed she had a sore throat as she went after a piece of mysis but spit it back out... other than that one try...she hasn't even attempted to eat.
6 days after not eating... her belly looks very lumpy on both sides. She is still swimming around the tank and very active.... but won't eat.
My thought is that is has to be something internal. I am putting her in our 40g Qt tomorrow but I need to know what to treat her for. Can someone help me?
She is swimming around fine, patroling her tank... her mouth isn't moving 90mph any longer, no hiding, no eratic breathing, no glancing off the rocks.
The other fish are all eating and seem fine. I'm very concerned.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Please help!
Thanks!