This might be a stupid question but I'm trying to educate myself in identifying disease. As far as internal parasites you hear of stringy poop. Can someone elaborate? To me it kinda all looks stringy except for the parrot which is very grainy. But I want to know if I should treat my dt with prazi pro. Currently doing hypo so of course this would be a couple weeks after I got salinity back up.
Define stingy poop please
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FishN00b83
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White poop can be a normal thing, or it can mean internal parasites. It really depends on how it looks and what you're feeding. Here's what I mean:
If you're feeding mysis and the fish has solid, long poop that breaks off quick and clean, it's probably fine. If it's hanging from the fish for a prolong period of time, and it looks like the fish is shaking trying to get it off, it's probably parasites.
If you're feeding New Life Spectrum pellets, or any kind of hard, high protein food and you're getting white poop it could be 2 things. 1, the fish could be getting used to the food and is a little constipated from the high protein. 2, the fish has internal parasites.
White poop does not equal parasites all the time, it really needs to be looked at with what your feeding and how long. If it is real stringy and hanging for a long time it most likely is, but like I said you need to think about what the fish has been eating and how it's acting.
If you're feeding mysis and the fish has solid, long poop that breaks off quick and clean, it's probably fine. If it's hanging from the fish for a prolong period of time, and it looks like the fish is shaking trying to get it off, it's probably parasites.
If you're feeding New Life Spectrum pellets, or any kind of hard, high protein food and you're getting white poop it could be 2 things. 1, the fish could be getting used to the food and is a little constipated from the high protein. 2, the fish has internal parasites.
White poop does not equal parasites all the time, it really needs to be looked at with what your feeding and how long. If it is real stringy and hanging for a long time it most likely is, but like I said you need to think about what the fish has been eating and how it's acting.
I have another thread I started and it is about this topic.
I have a wrasse in an acclimation box in my tank. He is eating like a pig and I was going to wait another 24 hours to release him into my display. I noticed though some of his feces looks like a string of dark hot dogs, not white and stringy.
does he have an internal parasite? I had him qt for a week he appears: healthy, eats well and looks great.
I did not medicate or treat the wrasse in qt.
Do you think the fish is OK and I can release into the display?
I have a wrasse in an acclimation box in my tank. He is eating like a pig and I was going to wait another 24 hours to release him into my display. I noticed though some of his feces looks like a string of dark hot dogs, not white and stringy.
does he have an internal parasite? I had him qt for a week he appears: healthy, eats well and looks great.
I did not medicate or treat the wrasse in qt.
Do you think the fish is OK and I can release into the display?
Deinonych
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For what it's worth, if the fish is carrying any parasites, the other fish in the DT have already been exposed. A week of observational QT is not meaningful, as most diseases show up after a few weeks in QT.
I am probably a heathen. I think I have lost almost as many fish to QT, medication, and hypo-salinity as I have saved. When I do preventative treatment I have lost a whole harems of anthias or lost fish at the end of hypo-salinity treatment. The funny thing is I have saved all my fish in a different display tank from ich when I bought livestock from a lfs that has bad rap for healthy fish. I did a Qt on all my livestock and let my display tank go fallow for 10 weeks and cured the tank.
Now my preventative treatment is to stay away from fish that are prone to health issues. wild clowns, angels, tangs, rabbit fish, anthias, and buy from stores I trust. I broke protocol with this wrasse and bought on line. that is why just the week in observation.
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