Hello I've had my two clowns for almost a month. New tank. At first they were both eating then one started being aggressive to the other and that one stopped eating as much eventually he had some white poop coming out that seemed to be worms or something so I treated my tank with prazi pro and did a water change a week later. Now (a few days after the water change) I noticed my more aggressive clown has the same poop and worries that he might be sick now..which is strange cause thought the prazi pro woild have gotten rid of it for him too. Here's some pictures I just took. Otherwise he's been super healthy, usually eats everything i drop in the tank but today didn't eat much if at all. Does this look concerning?
Maybe sick clownfish
- Thread starter jdubya
- Start date
- Tagged users None
theKoolAidMan
Active Member
- Joined
- Aug 1, 2018
- Messages
- 266
- Reaction score
- 430
Using prazipro in the display is fine. Some people are very strict about only ever using any sort of medication in a quarantine tank, and for some pretty fair reasons, but prazi pro is fine.
The reason the prazipro didn't work is because white stringy poo can be caused by various types of internal parasites, but prazipro will only kill some of those types. Generally tapeworm. However your clowns may have nematatodes or flagellates which prazipro is not an effective treatment for. You would need to use something like Metro or levamisole, neither of which can be used in your display tank I'm afraid. If you want to treat them in this case you would need to get a quarantine. It's not hard because clowns are fine in a small tank. A 10 or 20 gallon cheap tank from petco will be fine as well as a cheap little heater. Mix up some saltwater, heat it up, throw in some pvc pipe or something for hiding places for the fish (though the clowns probably won't even bother with it), and get those clowns in.
