CStrickland
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I think I have some kind of low-grade intestinal parasite infection going on. In the last year I've lost a couple fish to mysterious (to me anyway) circumstances: months apart, good appetite, no lesions or anything. The only symptom has been some stringy poo so I've dosed prazi a few times, and after one death I ran a 2-week course of metro+focus. Then everything seems fine for a long time until another death out of nowhere. QT includes prazi and sometimes metro. It seems to affect smaller fish more, lost a blenny, goby, and chalk bass; kole tang engineer goby and wrasse ok.
When they die they just have one bad day of sulking and then they go belly up. Sometimes their scales are poking out a little more than normal, and one had a red spot that may or may not have happened after death. I cut them open and there are some white sections in the intestines, except for one that it's stomach was kinda exploded - it looked like something chewed it's way out. But it's not like they have distended bellies before they die, or are full of little worms, iirc one had a single large worm in its gut.
Yesterday my wrasse pooed an absolutely astonishing thing. He stole all the nori off the tang clip and then produced a huge white sheet. I fished it out and it was over an inch across like a rolled up white film. This happened a few months ago before I did a round of metro+focus.
I'm ready to look into treating the survivors in a hospital tank, to get this settled. But I haven't found a conclusive answer on how to best do that. Thanks in advance for any advice you all have.
When they die they just have one bad day of sulking and then they go belly up. Sometimes their scales are poking out a little more than normal, and one had a red spot that may or may not have happened after death. I cut them open and there are some white sections in the intestines, except for one that it's stomach was kinda exploded - it looked like something chewed it's way out. But it's not like they have distended bellies before they die, or are full of little worms, iirc one had a single large worm in its gut.
Yesterday my wrasse pooed an absolutely astonishing thing. He stole all the nori off the tang clip and then produced a huge white sheet. I fished it out and it was over an inch across like a rolled up white film. This happened a few months ago before I did a round of metro+focus.
I'm ready to look into treating the survivors in a hospital tank, to get this settled. But I haven't found a conclusive answer on how to best do that. Thanks in advance for any advice you all have.
