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I'm surprised this thread came back to life. For a while, I thought I was the only one who had ever had a fish that refused to eat. Man I was slammed on other threads for posting this.
Hopefully it can help you save your regal.
The tubing might work. You need a large enough caliber tube to allow passage of the food, under minimal pressure and at a fast speed but also it needs to fit through the esophagus of the fish and be soft enough to avoid trauma. I have a feeling that pushing the food through will be slow, possibly clog and under a high pressure. If it is all you have, use it.
With extremely emaciated fish, DO NOT start with high fats and protein. Add some table sugar to the water - remember the Krebs cycle. Also Mazuri makes a fish gel.
I would use a mixture of pedialyte, and ground flake food to start. After about 10 days start to add something oily like fish roe, mackerel, or even cod liver oil or krill oil from GNC.
With regals, I place fresh oyster on the half shell in the aquarium to entice picking.
You will have a PM
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