Does this look like internal flagalletes to you?

PeterLL · Sep 1, 2020

Thank You

Jay Hemdal · Sep 1, 2020

Hi- hard to see what you mean, but the neon goby is a bit thin. One bit of advice, adult brine shrimp is very low in nutrients, fat, protein and HUFAs. I would feed this fish chopped mysids, small pellets and maybe even flake food, multiple times per day. Watch for it taking the food in and then spitting it out, that can indicate the wrong food or the food being too large.
Jay

PeterLL · Sep 3, 2020

Thank You,
I actually feed the quarantine with live copods from my culture but I have been relatively sparse on the feeding recently.

Here you can see it better especially towards the end:
The other fish, the kamohara blenny, doesnt have it. I'm weighing up the risks as 'd have to wait weeks to get General Cure here in the UK, and once I'm gone, I can't take care of them too much and I feel they'd fair far better in the display tank. As long as its not deadly, I feel I could just use General Cure to the DT over the christmas holidays if indeed it is worms, and not just from low and infrequent feeding and stress from the medicines.

Jay Hemdal · Sep 3, 2020

Well, it looks really skinny, was it tank raised or wild caught do you think?
You mention waiting until Christmas, I think you need to get it fattened up much sooner than that, else it won’t make it that long.
what happens when you feed it to satiation? Does its belly fill out? Are you feeding it 3+times per day?
Jay

vetteguy53081 · Sep 3, 2020

More of an algae buildup. Time for some:
Turbo snails
Nassarius snails
Astrea snails
Nerite snails
Blue leg hermit crabs

PeterLL · Sep 3, 2020

Jay Hemdal said:
Well, it looks really skinny, was it tank raised or wild caught do you think?
You mention waiting until Christmas, I think you need to get it fattened up much sooner than that, else it won’t make it that long.
what happens when you feed it to satiation? Does its belly fill out? Are you feeding it 3+times per day?
Jay

Hi Jay,
It's a tank bred. The Display tank has a good pod population and is fed heavily, so if I place him there he'll be fine and fed full. Right now I feed it a good amount of liv pods in the QT every couple of days as that's as much as I can harvest. I'd like to add him to the DT right now but I'm just concerned as to whether that's a bad idea as the poo may indicate flagalletes, but I'm not sure. If I keep him in QT it will likely be fed less than he is ATM so I dont want to do that. Do you think it looks like flagalletes or just a stressed fish with stressed poo?
I'm heading to university on satrday, where I'll only really be able to feed dry on an autofeeder or froZen once a week
Cheers

PeterLL · Sep 3, 2020

vetteguy53081 said:
More of an algae buildup. Time for some:
Turbo snails
Nassarius snails
Astrea snails
Nerite snails
Blue leg hermit crabs

It's a QT tank, got all that in the DT

vetteguy53081 · Sep 3, 2020

PeterLL said:
It's a QT tank, got all that in the DT

In a qt- wouldn’t worry about it

Jay Hemdal · Sep 3, 2020

PeterLL said:
Hi Jay,
It's a tank bred. The Display tank has a good pod population and is fed heavily, so if I place him there he'll be fine and fed full. Right now I feed it a good amount of liv pods in the QT every couple of days as that's as much as I can harvest. I'd like to add him to the DT right now but I'm just concerned as to whether that's a bad idea as the poo may indicate flagalletes, but I'm not sure. If I keep him in QT it will likely be fed less than he is ATM so I dont want to do that. Do you think it looks like flagalletes or just a stressed fish with stressed poo?
I'm heading to university on satrday, where I'll only really be able to feed dry on an autofeeder or froZen once a week
Cheers

Could be flagellates, probably not metazoans since it is CB. The deal with flagellates is that they are normal gut fauna, but they get too numerous and cause issues in some cases. I hope this guy will do ok on flakes and what pods it can find...
Jay