Don't forget that white stringy feces is not always an indication of parasites - it can also be from an imbalance of the fish's gut microbiome; either protozoans or bacteria. The normal populations get out of kilter and mucus production is the main symptom. Trouble is, I don't know how to restore the microbiome - probiotics for fish I suppose, but a fish needs to still be feeding.
I went ahead and threw in the cuprisorb as well, I’m gonna try to remove as much of the medication out of the water as possible. I don’t think I’m dealing with ich or velvet or even brook, that stuff should have been eliminated the first time I did treatment. I’m gonna let the fish’s immune systems bounce back for the rest of the month before I introduce them back into the dt. Will monitor them in the meantime, if anything crazy happens or the white stringy poop persists I’ll have to treat accordingly.
Thank you, I’m going from disease manage my to disease prevention. It really ticked me off that i ran into these issues and it makes me second guess myself because I’m right around the corner of a 100 day fallow period.... thanks for the help I appreciate it a lot.
I did rush into adding copper quickly, raised it from about .4 to 2.2 in 3 days. Should have taken it much slower.
