White poop

[duncantse]

One of the ocellaris clown's poo is white. I have read some disease online and I think it's a parasite? I'm not going to buy any medications first until I can verify that it is a bacterial disease. Maybe it's just due to acclimation and stress? I have been feeding them pellets and the clown has been eating fine but the pair of clown always stays near the heater. Any advice on how to deal with this? Also, my other clown does not have the white stringy poop but just a brown splash.

 

[duncantse]

UPDATE: It's been an hour and poop is still dangling from the clown. It is looking very clean/transparent now.

 

[duncantse]

UPDATE: Called my LFS and they said they feed their clowns mysis shrimp/flakes. Can a quick change of diet cause this?

 

[SkullV]

UPDATE: Called my LFS and they said they feed their clowns mysis shrimp/flakes. Can a quick change of diet cause this?

My male from Divers Den had a long string of white poop hanging from him today too. It was white with what looked like regular poop mixed in. I am going to go ahead and leave him alone. He looks fat and healthy and is eating pellets and Rods like a champ.

 

[duncantse]

Yup that's exactly what I'm thinking. Clowns have been eating fine so I'm not going to use any medications till I can figure out the problem.
Just wanted to hear some experience/opinions of this issue.

 

[Woogiekids]

Do you have chaeto in the sump?

 

[duncantse]

I don't have a sump.

 

[SkullV]

Do you have chaeto in the sump?

Why would this matter?

 

[Woogiekids]

My fish have been known to eat cheato that comes into the main tank, and then their poop looks white/clear and stringy.

 

[SkullV]

My fish have been known to eat cheato that comes into the main tank, and then their poop looks white/clear and stringy.

Hm, interesting. I wonder if the vegetable matter in Rod's food would create a similar situation.

 

[Woogiekids]

Possible if it's fiberous (no experience with Rods though)

 

[duncantse]

Well, I'm gonna wait a week to see if the issue gets any better. I'm pretty sure it's just a diet change but I could be wrong. Hope it's not a bacteria infection. :hmm3:

 

[reefwisher]

I don't believe white poo is normal in any fish fresh or marine. I can't really help you as far as marine fish poo being white but I can tell you that in fresh water discus fish keeping that it is a sign of internal parasite. The fish will in some cases eat well but will not get the nutritions that they should due to the parasite and in time will start getting skinny in the stomach area. The medication to use is Metronidazole. One of my lfs recommended to me that when I buy wild caught marine fish is to use Seachem Metronidazole with Seachem Focus to get rid of any internal parasite in case they have it. The Seachem Focus will bind up the metro when you mix it with the food so the fish will ingest it directly no loss in the water. I have done that with no issues and my marine fish poo has been normal color. Like I said I never had marine fish with white poo but I would suspect internal parasite.

 

[bigdoug]

My hippo tang had white poo while he was swimming upside down, I have been soaking food in garlic for a week now and he is swimming straight, poo went from white to squirts, now today is normal. It is amazing what garlic can do.

 

[duncantse]

Both ideas sounds logical. I'm going to wait a few more days and if it doesn't clear up, I''ll try the garlic method, if that doesn't work, I'll use meds.

 

[bigdoug]

To be honest if you have the garlic available, why wait, it can't hurt anything that I know of, my lfs told me to try it instead of meds, and well so far things are good.