Clown with long white feces

kilnakorr · Feb 11, 2021

I had a thread misplaced on wrong forum:

White poo. Is it parasites?

I got my first 2 clowns a week ago. I noticed last night one, has long white poo (milk white, not transparent). Is this a sign of parasites? Hard to make fish and poo not move, but you can see length on top clown: Both fish are aktive, and eating well. If treatment is needed; Praziquentel 5%...

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Short story, clown with white feces, that dissapeared on its own, so thought it was change of diet.

However, I spotted this just now:

The ONLY thing I'm able to get my hands on in these times, and local laws is esha ndx (levimasol).
I'm planing on setting up a smaller QT tomorrow morning anyways so I can dose the water per instructions, but should I try soak some pellets with the levimasol and feed first?

Jay Hemdal · Feb 11, 2021

I think I responded to you in that other thread.

Soaking food in levamisole only works if you know the dose that you are then administering. It has a pretty broad safe dose, but you still need to be within the 2.5 to 10 mg/kg fish body weight range.

Remember, levamisole works against metazoans (nematodes) and those do not typically cause white stringy feces. The more typical causes of that are bacterial or protozoal issues, starvation or in the case of many clownfish, no known reason.

Jay

kilnakorr · Feb 12, 2021

Jay Hemdal said:
I think I responded to you in that other thread.

Soaking food in levamisole only works if you know the dose that you are then administering. It has a pretty broad safe dose, but you still need to be within the 2.5 to 10 mg/kg fish body weight range.

Remember, levamisole works against metazoans (nematodes) and those do not typically cause white stringy feces. The more typical causes of that are bacterial or protozoal issues, starvation or in the case of many clownfish, no known reason.

Jay

Yes, you did. I just didn't want to reopen the thread in the wrong forum.
Since it did go away for a little while, would it indicate it was diet related, maybe lack of food? It eats a lot less then previously.
I fed some pellets yesterday, and noticed it spitting them out and then eat the smaller pieces.
I guess I'm 'panicking' a little, and looking for things to try.

Jay Hemdal · Feb 12, 2021

A change in food intake is worrisome though. Spitting food indicates either the wrong size food, the wrong texture, or if it had previously been eating that food fine, then some disease process (don't know what).
Try some small frozen mysids and even flake food.
Is the fish in a tank that you can dose the water? If so, you can dose with General Cure and the fish will absorb the proper amount from the water and it will help with protozoan and some worm parasites.

Jay

kilnakorr · Feb 12, 2021

Jay Hemdal said:
A change in food intake is worrisome though. Spitting food indicates either the wrong size food, the wrong texture, or if it had previously been eating that food fine, then some disease process (don't know what).
Try some small frozen mysids and even flake food.
Is the fish in a tank that you can dose the water? If so, you can dose with General Cure and the fish will absorb the proper amount from the water and it will help with protozoan and some worm parasites.

Jay

Yes. Not having a big appetite isn't a good sign.
I have both mysis and even some tiny cyclops I can try.
Sadly, I can't get general cure here, or much else regarding medicin. Illegal to sell here, and the covid situations seems to have depleted many items, or can't be shipped internationally.
I'll see if I can find some food it will eat and just hope for the best.