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I bought water-soluble fish vitamins (vitachem) on the recommendation of a forum member, dosed the tank with it because Ruby still isn't eating much. Can't tell if it's helping yet. Certainly he still has some energy and color, got a bit twitchy though. I thought for a moment from this photo that the ring around his eye was less swollen,

but another photo from slightly diff angle, he looks just as miserable

I made this thing. I stretched and sewed a piece of pantyhose over airline tubing bent in a circle, fastened it to the tank wall below Ruby's feeding ring. The idea was that when he misses his food, it will fall onto the nylon and he can find it again there- he always gives up if it falls to the tank floor.

It's not really working. Ruby definitely has some appetite, comes to his feeding spot and I put in way more than his normal food amount, in the hopes he would get some of it. He's been sitting there so close to surface his dorsal fin drags into the air, then striking hard at the food items- but always off to the side. It's as if he thinks more effort will make up for his lack of precision. I think I saw him get a few flakes, but when I fed soaked pellets, he didn't get any at all.

The nylon net does catch the food, but Ruby doesn't look for it there. I end up siphoning it off and feeding to my shrimps in the jar next door.