Kratos

I have a 1 year old Flower Horn (which i guess is also a cichlid species) who was completely normal until 5 days back.
He was the most active fish ive ever seen. He always followed my finger and always knows when someone's watching him....so tries do something funny.

I couldnt clean his tank for abt 2 weeks (during this time "Michaelangelo," was giving out white thready, mucous-like faeces) until abt 6 or 7 days back. Something really weird happened the next day after the water change.

Small white specks started appearing on the tank glass......when looking at them closer they tend to move(some sorta worms i guess).
So i presumed they were Planaria (did some reading on the net).
Did another water change 2 days back and cleaned some of those worms out.......and did another gravel clean today as well.

Coz to my understanding, if the detritus is taken out....then the worms go away!
Is that right

So the main issue here is .......my Flower Horn, "Michaelangelo" has completely lost all interest in food and does not responed to any of my hand gestures(like he used to). He is slimming down by the day (that scares me big time.) Instead the only thing he does is have a slow movement and takes pauses at certain areas in the tank. Sometimes rests at the bottom......which he never did before.

Could someone pls let me know whats goin on and urgently in need of a solution before something bad happens.

Thanx

Lucy

I'm really sorry your fish is ill.

Stringy white poo, loss of appetite, weight and activity is usually a sign of parasites.

I'm not familiar with Flower Horn so you might want to wait until other chime in on this but you can try a medicated food for parasites. Getting them to eat it is the trick.
If you're parasites in the water Jungle makes an anti parasite tab you add to the water.

Again, wait to see what others say.

Good luck, I hope he feels better soon.