Tang Poop!

[sunfish11]

I added a pretty good size Naso tang a few weeks ago to my 210 gal. I haven't had a tang before and all of my other fish are pretty small. The first thing I noticed is that this sucker poops long white strings and they are all over the place like streamers on a wind-sock. Is this normal? Could she have some parasites? If this is how tangs poo than I am not getting any more, that is for sure.

Any tang poop experience would be helpful

Lisa

 

[Toddrtrex]

I am no expect with fish diseases, but I know that long white strings are not a good sign. Hopefully someone with more knowledge will chime in.

It should be greenish in color and not stringy at all, that is all the details I feel like giving at this time -- don't want to ruin my taste for my cheese con queso

HTH

 

[sunfish11]

I will add that the fish is very fat and healthly looking besides the long stringy poop.

I hope someone chimes in that knows what to treat with if this is a parasite or other issue. Poop is definitely not green...

 

[Toddrtrex]

It being fat and healthly is a good sign. I have had fat healthy tangs with (not what this is) ick, kick it on there own.

I should have added more, it would be green assuming you feeding it green matter.

 

[Toddrtrex]

In the mean time, look at these -- granted not a tang, but it may help

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=846043&highlight=white+stringy+poop

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=559781&highlight=white+stringy+poop

 

[sunfish11]

Yup, I feed her green matter...but she also really likes meaty foods. It is white (poo) really stringy and sometimes up to four or five inches long. It is everywhere and it seems like she is always making more. It is making me crazy!

 

[Corn]

what are you feeding the fish ?? that could be what making the **** white. also if you want to treat the tank it will depend if it is a reef or not. if it is a reef then no copper then you will have to treat it with melaflx should do the job or just see what happens and maybe it will just go away?

 

[sunfish11]

I feed the fish seaweed selects and it grazes on some macro algea as well. I also feed formula II, formula I, frozen mysis, frozen brine, frozen krill, clam, squid, etc. I do have a reef and I have to feed a lot because I have anthias.

 

[thor32766]

keep feeding himorher greens. see if the naso will eat some romaine lettuce. that stuff flys through their system and should flush him pretty quickly. keep us updated.

 

[BTTRFLYGRL]

White poo can be a sign of internal parasites or internal bacterial infection

For now, just keep an eye on him...if it keeps up, you can soak his food in Prazipro if that doesn't clear it up you can soak food in antibiotic [ some products are made for this...can't think of the name off hand]

 

[ACBlinky]

Metronidazole works well for intestinal problems in FW fish, I believe it will work for marines as well. I'd soak pellets, flakes, Nori -- anything absorbant that the tang will eat -- in Metro and tank water every time you feed for a few weeks or until the symptoms are gone. It's quite mild and can be used for longer periods of time than other meds, and works best given internally. It's very effective for intestinal flagellates (Metro is often used by discus breeders for w/c fish with parasites) and has antibacterial properties as well.

 

[Agent003]

The only time I have experienced white stringy excrement is when I started feeding my Tangs chaeto.

It was nice to be able to recycle the chaeto, but it was too tough for them to fully digest so I stopped feeding it because white strings ended up everywhere.

 

[BTTRFLYGRL]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7579970#post7579970 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ACBlinky
Metronidazole works well for intestinal problems in FW fish, I believe it will work for marines as well. I'd soak pellets, flakes, Nori -- anything absorbant that the tang will eat -- in Metro and tank water every time you feed for a few weeks or until the symptoms are gone. It's quite mild and can be used for longer periods of time than other meds, and works best given internally. It's very effective for intestinal flagellates (Metro is often used by discus breeders for w/c fish with parasites) and has antibacterial properties as well.

Yes, Metronidazole is another good one to use

 

[CeeGee]

maracyn II works well for internal diseases also.

I have used it to cure fish that exhibit white stringy poop.