Yes, first guy to die came to me with rapid breathing and wasn’t super active, and towards the end only hung out near the top (I got him from my sister who keeps them in a 30g community tank—she says she hasn’t had any deaths but I wonder if there’s so many fish she just hasn’t noticed any missing)
All of them towards the end stay at the top of the tank in the plants, very lethargic. They spit out the medicated food, even the healthy ones avoid it, that’s why I wanted to broadcast the med. Before death there was food refusal and the third (most recent) to die, I did see a single stringy white poop, right before I medicated the tank with paracleanse. I wasn’t sure if that was from a lack of eating or parasite/worm, but at that point already guessed it was a parasite/worm problem.
No flashing, no sunken belly. I attached pictures of the last to die.
this was him Saturday when I added him back to the main tank figuring I would treat the whole tank (in case the others had it or if the parasite/worms survive in the tank without a host) at this point he’d had several days of aquarium salt and FixIck (gentian violet) with minimal noticeable improvement (he wasn’t always at the top of the tank, but he hid near the bottom of the quarantine more than he swam or was active)
Later that night, poop string and hovering near the top which is what he spent most of the day doing. (Pictured above)
at this point I dosed with Paracleanse
by Tuesday morning he was on the bottom of the substrate and died later that day. I did a 50% water change and added a dose of Paracleanse (their instructions are another dose on day 3) by this morning, two of my caridinas were dead.
4 remaining endlers are all active, eating (though they avoid medicated food) and seem great, but one is a major bully.