How to treat GT bacterial infection without medicating tank?

[Sarah88]

im sorry for your troubles fishingout, and yeah thats what happened to my female after she made the male jump she just became all shy and would hide and barely even come out to eat, finally i just got fed up with her and gave her to someone else but sadly she died in their care, but she was like this for like 8months before i re-homed her. it was ridiculous but yes my little guys now is still eating and right out front with the angels at all times so hopefully it stays that way but yeah i will definitely let you know if i find a treatment that gets rid of it for good

and yeah knifegill i know its definitely parasites, my last pair i had i even treated them for parasites and nothing changed and they even laid fertile eggs before the female made the male jump out and parasites would have made them infertile, i actually prefer that it were parasites because then i would have seen it in the small quarantine tank and it would have been easy to treat

 

[knifegill]

and yeah knifegill i know its definitely parasites

Okay, I think you meant the opposite, guessing by the context of the rest of the paragraph. But I'm not assuming anything.

You could try an antibiotic by soaking the food in it before feeding. If they are eating, that is.

 

[Aquanero]

Both my GTs eat like vacume cleaners! I feed a staple of Omega One Super Veggie pellets and Bio-Gold+ every day. I feed peas once a week and also feed one earth worm and a coulpe pieces of krill one a week. They go nuts for peas and krill so does my JD and Convects. Being omnivorus I try to feed a vegitable based diet about 75% Veggie & 25% meat. One thing I do is on the "meat" day I still feed the veggie pellets 1st then the "meat" then more veggis pellets, just to keep thing moving if you get my drift. This takes place over the course of a couple of hours not one big gut busting meal. Anyway I thought I'd throw that out there, works for me.

 

[Sarah88]

Okay, I think you meant the opposite, guessing by the context of the rest of the paragraph. But I'm not assuming anything.

You could try an antibiotic by soaking the food in it before feeding. If they are eating, that is.

haha yeah i meant i know its NOT parasites lol, but yeah i may try that as well if just the peas and garlic dont help.

and yeah aqunero that sounds good, i definitely need to add more veggies to the diet that is for sure

 

[H2O_Beasts]

So do you guys just go buy a frozen bag of peas then? I need to get some. I have been feeding them hikari gold, hikari staple, and flakes. If I change up their diet and add peas and maybe some garlic I hope it will help. I've got my 2 GT's in with 1 Green Severum. The Severum eats way more than the GT's.

 

[Sarah88]

yeah thats what i did, i just bought some cheap frozen peas and then thawed a couple in tank water, took off the peel and squished it into the water. he absolutely LOVED the peas, the garlic not so much but thats fine i can just soak the peas in the garlic and then have him eat the peas. he is a bit constipated right now but hopefully the peas take care of that

 

[Otherone]

I feel ya - white poop can be pretty decieving and a real pain in the arse. It would have to be studied under a microscope by a trained professional for exact ID. When the poop is long white and sticks out of the anus - trailing not dropping - that's the dead skin of a worm with intestinal mucus and egg cysists. I have a Bichir that had white stringy poop but nothing like Tapworm poop - it was only an inch or 2 and it dropped not trailed - garlic cured it real quick, it's been over a year since. My old Male Terror had Tapeworm they stopped eating, bellies sunk, but after a 3 day prazziquantel regiement the worms were gone - alot faster than I originally would've thought - however egg cysists grew and hatched on the female a few weeks later - retreated again for 3 days worms were gone perminantly.

 

[H2O_Beasts]

Would you guys suggest using Parasite Clear from Jungle Labs for treating a fish with long white stringy poop?

 

[Sarah88]

Would you guys suggest using Parasite Clear from Jungle Labs for treating a fish with long white stringy poop?

in most cases yes i would treat with parasite clear, its just with my GT i know it isnt parasites but if you are not sure with your fish then yes treat with jungle parasite clear, with all three treatments to be sure and then if it still has an issue post a thread on here asking about your specific fish.

ok guys, so far so good. i have been giving him garlic soaked peas for the last 3 days and his poo has returned to normal, im going to start backing it off to every two days and see if it remains that way and then gradually spread it out to twice a week and then maintain that schedule in his diet unless his poo turns white again and i will put it back to every day. "fingers crossed" it seems like it was an easy fix this time "knock on wood" hopefully it stays away now

 

[Aquanero]

I am really happy to hear your GT is getting better. I really think most of the problems with these guys is diet based. If feed in the correct way they are very healthy otherwise and beautiful fish to own. Anyway, great news.