what's this sticky white poo on my true percs???

[stickyhops]

these true percs have been swimmin in my tank for about 4 days now.
their playful and don't seem to be acting any different than their clowny attitudes.
i do have 2 different frogspawns in my tank, but i have not seen the percs take to either.
i was suspect that the white stuff on them was frogspawn poo, but i am not sure.
i don't want to chance losing these guys so i am asking if anyone thinks something more than frogspawn poo is at play here.
thanks all!!

 

[chitownclown]

Looks like brrokleyen or clown dieses to me, do some reading on good treatments for it.

 

[ocellaris123]

Yup looks like brook to me. It is fatal if not treated. Quarantine with medication (a must at this point), freshwater/formalin baths are some treatments you can look into.

 

[stickyhops]

i have a wrasse that may be the host of the disease. should that guy be isolated as well?

 

[stickyhops]

on a similar thread on another site a well spoken gentleman states that if the fish are acting and eating normally that i should just take the wait and see approach.....the fish may fight off the brook themselves..... i feed them rod's food (orange) and i do 5 gal ro/di water changes every week. my tank is only 30 gal. i monitor ph, phosphate, nitrate, calcium and carbonate hardness. i keep all levels at proper sea levels.
any opinions would be appreciated.
thanks

 

[stickyhops]

turns out they have taken to a trumpet coral and the coral is puking on them!!! ha!

 

[bassist6108]

Re: what's this sticky white poo on my true percs???

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14691918#post14691918 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by stickyhops

i don't want to chance losing these guys

If you don't want to chance losing them, treat them for the disease they have, instead of hoping they get over it on their own.

Given their ill state, I'm also not sure what is particularly amusing about diseased fish getting "puked on" but a coral they should not be hosting. I do not believe that slime from the trumpet coral accounts for their appearance in the picture you showed.

 

[jkrentz2515]

Treat them for the disease. Better safe than sorry.

 

[stickyhops]

when i woke up this morning the 'slimy whiteness' was gone. now later in the day it has reappeared. they seem to have taken to a torch coral for some reason and i was relieved in thinking the coral was responsible for the mess.

 

[JamesJR]

I bet you have Brooklynella. I'd treat them for it. It is very common in wild clownfishes.

 

[bassist6108]

Don't bother, JamesJR. He does not want to treat his fish, apparently.

 

[Vitaly]

stickyhops...if you are genuine about wanting to save them, then you will probably need to intervene. It is fair to say you are against/uncomforatable dosing a person (or by analogy your fish) with medications, but if a person is having difficulty breathing...is there harm in giving them oxygen, right?

Superficially, it does look like the fish has Brooklynellosis. Last year I bought a clown that introduced it to my tank...and I had to do Formalin dips to treat them.

<LI>How are the fish behaving...are they letharfic or active?
<LI>Are the gasping for air (eg. are their gills flared and rapidly pulsing)...do the gills look unobstructed or is there mucus surrounding them?
<LI>Are they hiding in the rock or swimming just underneath the surface of the water?
<LI>Are they eating?
<LI>Have you seen them defecate...is it white and stringy?

If you are uncomfortable using medication, then I submit that you can at least move them into a hospital/quarantine tank with lower salinity (.014) to relive some of the renal burden...and thus allowing the animals to re-direct energy towards an immune response and wound healing.