Would long, stringy poop be a symptom of a gram-negative bacterial infection in the Black Molly? I just acclimated 3 FW Black Molly's to the DT to test our FALLOW results. Either one got hold of a random strand of Cheato or that was stringy poop hanging out. It dissappeared under a rock before I could confirm.I'm seeing velvet, uronema, gram-negative bacterial infections in every shipment. Kinda makes me miss Cryptocaryon.
I'm seeing velvet, uronema, gram-negative bacterial infections in every shipment. Kinda makes me miss Cryptocaryon.
That's a good question! On that same note...@humblefish any idea why all the diseased fish? In all the yrs in the hobby I don't remember seeing so many! I never buy online....but even my LFS are getting it more and more fish that are sick....I prophylactically treat all incoming fish, so it's hard for me to say which were diseased upon receipt and which were not. But usually with every shipment I can see active signs of velvet and/or uronema in a few of the bags. These fish are isolated away from my main QTs and almost always die. Too far gone I suppose.
I get in around 50-60 fish at a time, and perform necropsies on every single fish that dies. Most of the time I can trace the death back to velvet, uronema or a gram-negative infection. Sometimes only the liver & kidneys look damaged, which suggests either cyanide or ammonia poisoning. Some shipments I only lose a few fish; however this last shipment has been devastating because most of the fish developed a gram-negative infection that I initially mistook for Lymphocystis. White lesions are even spreading internally over the fishes' internal organs. Guess I got really unlucky this time around and picked up a weird bacterial disease. Staining has confirmed it is being caused by gram-negative bacteria, but I am unable to ID the genus, species.
White stringy poop is a symptom of internal parasites/intestinal worms: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/internal-pathogens.267419/
My opinion is that there is nothing to break the cycle of disease in the supply chain. How often do you think wholesalers break down and sanitize their systems? My guess is that it just doesn't happen. The systems are always up and running with fish cycling through so once a disease or parasite is added it never goes away.
I agree^^^
LOL!!!! Yes, that definitely didn't read as you meant it.
I would LOVE to hear more about your experiences using cipro on fish. Perhaps you could start a new thread with that information?
Yea that makes perfect sense.....! I was at one of my favorite LFS the other day, and they just got in a huge shipment of fish. They have a bunch of various Wrasses, plus some Tangs and Angels. About 50% of his order was eaither dead or dying. He was not happy about it. Most of his order came from Quality Marine, which was known to be a decent whole saler.....it was sad looking in his buckets while he was acclimating the livestock and seeing so many dead it dying specimens.
Hmmmmm....good speculation.....that sounds logical too....that could explain why some areas like Hawaii for example, most of the time have healthier specimens. They cost more, but I am sure all of us here would be agree, that we rather pay more for healthy specimens....
