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[duke450]

My Electric Yellow has a sunken stomach but is still eating. I have done a water change and added salt to the water No other fish is effected they range from Frontosas to Clown Loaches . Is there anything else I can do to fix this problem.


At present i feed this fish 3 times daily to try and keep it alive

[Cawdor]

Watch and see if it gets bullied by others. The fact that it's eating is good, but stress can take its toll.
Does the Yellow have a place to hide?
Keep up the water changes and observe how the Yellow lives in your tank, ie is it getting chased around by others, does it have a spot of its own or is it swimming around aimlessly.
If it is getting bullied, separate it and put it in a fry saver along with a piece of pvc pipe to hide in. There you can get it back to proper weight.

[madasa]

Internal intestinal parasites might also cause this concave stomach - what does the pooh look like? Any visible protruding worms from its anus?

Be it the above or just a question of underfed then I would personally move the fish now.

[duke450]

the poo's are greyish in colour and about 3mm in length. It is a male Electric Yellow and until the time of it starting to get thin it was fine. It did start to be bullied when it got sick by a female Yellow

[madasa]

Greyish poo - hmmm. Could you say it was white / translucent and stringy? Might be looking at hexamita.

Probably stressed and underfed. Isolate it in a small tank and add some salt - 1tbsp to 5G. Have the heat at about 28.

And feed it up.

If it eats but continues to become emaciated then I think we need to consider an internal parasite and treat accordingly.

What is your tank husbandry regime and how many fish? What is the filtration and tank capacity?