It's been over a week now. They have not been eating the usual flake food I give them. I've only had them for about 4-5 months, and they were always crazy for flake food. They're lethargic and don't move much anymore. No parameters have changed, and my other fish and shrimp are fine. Any ideas? They look so thin now!!
Clown killifish stopped eating
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Well, I tried frozen bloodworms, live grindal worms, new flake food, old flake food, but they still didn't/don't eat any of it. The female died from starvation, and I no longer see the male anymore.. probably dead too. They were both insanely thin and pooped very thin threads from eating whatever they were eating, i guess.. I'm surprised they lasted this long without eating. Bummer!! I used to worry about them eating too much because they were such fatties.. I guess my move really screwed them.
yeah, I wondered about that, but I don't think I saw parasites coming out. My other fish are OK. Hm, maybe the thin thread poop I saw hanging on them wasn't poop? I lost a few other fish as well after the move, too.. 1 dario dario, 3 CDP, all of my RCS (over 40!!), CRS, and somehow manage to lose (as in I packed it, but I couldn't find it when I unpacked) my hardy amano shrimp..
Well, the only IPs I have experience with are Camallanus worms...major huge pain to get rid of 
White poop is usually indicative of mucus in the poop. Not a great sign but not that terrible either. I know the golden wonders at Petsmart looked horrible, they expected them to eat those disgusting white vacation pucks! I imagine they sometimes got a smidgeon of flake, but they prefer other foods, like the cultured foods you offered.
I don't know of another parasite that "pokes its head out" the way C. worms do...but I am not really all that knowledgeable about IPs, except Camallanus since I had to research to figure out how to deal with them.
White poop is usually indicative of mucus in the poop. Not a great sign but not that terrible either. I know the golden wonders at Petsmart looked horrible, they expected them to eat those disgusting white vacation pucks! I imagine they sometimes got a smidgeon of flake, but they prefer other foods, like the cultured foods you offered.
I don't know of another parasite that "pokes its head out" the way C. worms do...but I am not really all that knowledgeable about IPs, except Camallanus since I had to research to figure out how to deal with them.
Sadly, when fish stop eating I've found they usually don't recover...don't want to discourage you, has just always been my experience. You might want to isolate them in a hospital tank and treat with something like API's General Cure - it's not too expensive and didn't seem to be all that harsh. I used it to treat rams for Hexamita and was successful.