Urgent Wrasse Won't Eat!

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  1. kcbrad

    kcbrad Giant Squid

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    I need help! My wrasse has decided that he doesn't want to eat. He hasn't had anything for like 4 days - though he ate a tiny bit yesterday (like two pieces of brine). I've tried mysis, brine, pellets, flakes and bloodworms. The only thing he tries to eat is mysis, but then he just spits it out.

    I've tried soaking the food in garlic and it doesn't help.

    Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! He used to eat like a pig. Here's what's happened in the tank:

    Clown got sick with some type of fungus or infection, so I was treating the tank with Pimafix and Melafix. Wrasse was fine until I started treating with these things. He stayed hidden for about two days until I did a 20 gallon water change. Now he's been out swimming all day today, he just won't eat!
     
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  3. Puffer Chick

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    wish i could help it out, but i cant, ill leave it to the pros, hopefully you can get him to eat and he will be ok :)
     
  4. Dingo

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    do you have a grounding probe?
     
  5. kcbrad

    kcbrad Giant Squid

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    Not yet. I am planning on buying one.
     
  6. kcbrad

    kcbrad Giant Squid

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    Oh also, all parameters are 0 and salinity is 1.024
     
  7. Dingo

    Dingo Giant Squid

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    at the tank i set up at our business, every single fish stopped eating and then got mysterious diseases after we added some k4's... the fish then all died. I tested the charge in the water and it was 43.1 volts so they were being electrocuted to death :'(
    wrote a letter to koralia and they r replacing our fish :/
     
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  9. kcbrad

    kcbrad Giant Squid

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    omg! That's horrible. I have two K 4s. Do you think I should turn them off? I'm worried about oxygen....
     
  10. Dingo

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    can you check the voltage at all?
     
  11. kcbrad

    kcbrad Giant Squid

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    How do I do that?
     
  12. ZachB

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    Volt meter.