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Due to excessive stress maybe?

maybe stress
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Due to excessive stress maybe?

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Now that the fish is in my own aquarium he’s a bit closer and he seems very skinny. In fact so skinny that it looks as if you can make out individual intestines through his sides. He has also since developed a (permanent?) brown stripe across the top portion of his body. He is swimming and foraging mostly on the large red leafy macroalgae (type unknown) in the tank and seems well enough otherwise. In order to fatten him up a bit the LFS suggested mysis shrimp which he just doesn’t seem too interested in (I’m guessing maybe my fish prefers to remain strictly a herbivore haha). His feces, of which there is a lot, tends to hang from him for a while until he swims fast enough for the current to detach it. Is this anything to worry about, suggesting a not so balanced diet maybe?

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