[blackpuma]

This fish which I had since juvinile refused to eat suddenly. No physical damage or ich spotted on the fish.

He was eating like a pig before but one day he just stopped eating. He swims near the food now but somehow is unable to target and eat the food. All other residance in the tank is normal.

I don't want to loose this guy, I had him when he was young and see him morphed into a beautiful adult.

The only recent addition I made was a 2.5 inch bicolor angel. Could this guy be harressing him?

Help please.


Thanks

[leebca]

I moved your post into the Marine Fish: Care, Health and Disease Treatment Forum here on Reefland. Thanks for posting.

Some fish just come to the end of their captive life limit. For the most part, what it is that causes a fish to stop eating is a stress factor that isn't discovered or clear. These stressors fall into one of two broad categories:
1) Nutritional
2) Environment

A fish that is fed less than its nutritional needs will eat like a pig. See this: Does Your Fish Eat Like a Pig? - Not so Good?

A review of what you were feeding should be a general approach to prolonging the life of your marine life: Feeding Marine Fish and Fish Nutrition

When it comes to environment, it includes tank mates, water quality, poisons, space/size of aquarium, etc., etc.

The Bicolor Angel coming in late should not be particularly a problem. However any new fish addition can be a problem in that the new fish can bring with new microbes that the 'regular inhabitants' haven't seen in months or years. I don't know if you used a quarantine process for the Bicolor, however if you didn't, this increases the chance that the Bicolor has introduced bacteria or other microbes that is stressing the older fish.

There are a lot of unknowns here: your water quality; when you added a fish before the Bicolor; do you use a quarantine process; possible sources of poisons; has the fish been fed properly; frequently enough; the kind of other fishes and marine life you have; size of display aquarium; type of system; etc. Without more information, I'm afraid it is up to you to further investigate the possible stressor(s).

At this point in time with the little information provided, the best thing to do is take a preventative position. You can 'take care' of some possible water quality issues by performing a very large water change (80%). The large water change will sometimes 'wake up' a non-eating fish, too.