hippo tang won't eat

[reefyredfish]

Yea.. he goes after it but dosen't seem to want to eat it.
I've had him for only a few weeks. He started in my main tank
and showed signs of ich, so I put him in a 10 g hospital.
I got the salinity down to 1.09 and plan to hold him there
for 4 more weeks. He's smaller than a fifty cent piece and
was eating great and looking better in my main tank. But
now he just picks at the food. He's starting to look thin again
the way he was when I first got him. I've had him in the
hospital for 2 weeks. Should I move him back to main tank?
Should I increase salinity and treat with copper?
I soak formula 2 in garlic. Doesn't seem to help.
Other than that he seems fine and no sign of ich.

[George Gouveia]

Instead of soaking with garlic, soak it with vitamins (Vita-Chem or Selcon) they will both provide him with the needed vitamins and incite his apetite.

[trdofwrkin]

or try giving him some nori mine wouldnt eat flake at first so i fed nori for a few days then i stopped with the nori for 2 days. he got hungry enough to eat the flake. now he is a pig with the flake