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Ammonia, nitrite 0
nitrate <20ppm
2 SAPs, 5 otos in 100L tank

1 SAP will not keep his weight on. I have trimmed his teeth and wormed the tank with fluvenol-15. He is pooing (brown, assume that is normal) and is fed frozen mysis, bloodworms, live artema and/or snails everyday. The other SAP is a lovely shape, but this one is smaller and has always been harder to feed. He gets preoccupied with me being in front of the tank than his food unless it drifts past him. However I have overcome this and he eats plenty, gets a little bulging belly, which doesn't go skinny straight away but he just isn't putting the weight on.
I have had them for 8 months and he's always been the thinner, smaller and more hyperactive one out of the 2. Just wanted to check if this is sometimes common?
He's not emaciated, just doesn't have as much weight as the other one and I think he could do with a bit more.

I think deworming him again might be a good idea. There is a chance that not all the worms died and are now coming back.

I have two under two inch GSP's in a 55g. One is about a half inch bigger then the other. The bigger gsp is always so worried about the other gsp that he does not always get as much food as the smaller gsp. There are times I can get the smaller one away so the larger one can feed more. Even when I do that they both will look nice and plump, but the larger gsp's belly will go down faster then the smaller gsp's. Both gsp's look healthy. Mine have never looked identical belly wise . And I can see that both gsp's are growing.

Brown poo sounds normal. Are your sap's about the same size? Can you post pics?

okay, will do another worming now.
Will try to get pics, but they are so quick and my digital camera is lost at the moment, so will have to be on the mobile.
The skinnier one is a little smaller, he always was, but they are definately growing, so that can't be a bad thing.
thankyou for the help

I am still in the belief that internal patasites must be treated internally.

I did my flubenol treatment over 4 weeks and noticed a great improvement immediately after the 1st dose. Doing over a few weeks will give you a greater chance of catching any parasites that might not have hatched and missed out on the first dosing.

Perseverance and hopefully he will pull through.

thankyou. I dosed this morning and then will do it again next week, hopefully, 3 weeks on the trot will work!