Hello MFK
I recently took in an archerfish that was a trade in at work. It was a sad little fellow but did eat crickets. I brought him home because I figured I could give him a better situation and no one had bought him. I was thought he was a micro dat and was able to positively ID him later on. I needed to make sure so I could try to give him the proper water conditions. He was already in bad shape when I got him, but he was eating. By the second day he stopped eating and just sat at the top of my QT tank. To make a long story short, by day 5 he still wasn't eating (even with food soaked in garlic guard) and had white fuzzy poop hanging from him. I haven't seen anything like this before, but it's obvious it's some sort of parasite so I did a w/c and dosed the tank with Prazipro. He pooped it completely out and he looked a little better but still didn't eat. By the next day he had some sort of white fuzz growing on his tail and his balance was off. Within an hour of his health taking a turn he was floating upsidedown at the bottom of the tank breathing heavily. I added some aquarium salt as a last ditch effort to try to bring him back. He died by the morning.
I'm unsure if there was really anything I could have done for him, but it bothers me that I wasn't able to do more. I've been able to bring back even the worst of fish from the dead and am known in my community for making fish thrive. I'm absolutely devastated I wasn't able to fix him in time and even more upset I don't know exactly what killed him. I can't find anything on this "fuzzy" poop or what parasite it could have been. I had my young pbass housed with him during this time and want to make sure he's not at risk, or frankly myself since I'm battling some immunity issues and occasionally have cut up hands. There have been zero symptoms from the pbass.
This fuzzy poop is really bizarre, when attached to him it was super fuzzy like a fungal infection. The next day there was a giant poop on the bottom of the tank. It looked overly big, was clear jelly and the only way to describe it was hollow (like how a long bead would be hollow so you can run a string through it) it was pretty gross.
Here's pic of some of the weird poops after I used prazipro
Here was one of the poops one of the two fish did right before the archerfish died. Almost like the poop came out moldy or immediately after
The weird poop an hour after prazipro.
Did I ever think I'd post about fish poop but yup...poop
I recently took in an archerfish that was a trade in at work. It was a sad little fellow but did eat crickets. I brought him home because I figured I could give him a better situation and no one had bought him. I was thought he was a micro dat and was able to positively ID him later on. I needed to make sure so I could try to give him the proper water conditions. He was already in bad shape when I got him, but he was eating. By the second day he stopped eating and just sat at the top of my QT tank. To make a long story short, by day 5 he still wasn't eating (even with food soaked in garlic guard) and had white fuzzy poop hanging from him. I haven't seen anything like this before, but it's obvious it's some sort of parasite so I did a w/c and dosed the tank with Prazipro. He pooped it completely out and he looked a little better but still didn't eat. By the next day he had some sort of white fuzz growing on his tail and his balance was off. Within an hour of his health taking a turn he was floating upsidedown at the bottom of the tank breathing heavily. I added some aquarium salt as a last ditch effort to try to bring him back. He died by the morning.
I'm unsure if there was really anything I could have done for him, but it bothers me that I wasn't able to do more. I've been able to bring back even the worst of fish from the dead and am known in my community for making fish thrive. I'm absolutely devastated I wasn't able to fix him in time and even more upset I don't know exactly what killed him. I can't find anything on this "fuzzy" poop or what parasite it could have been. I had my young pbass housed with him during this time and want to make sure he's not at risk, or frankly myself since I'm battling some immunity issues and occasionally have cut up hands. There have been zero symptoms from the pbass.
This fuzzy poop is really bizarre, when attached to him it was super fuzzy like a fungal infection. The next day there was a giant poop on the bottom of the tank. It looked overly big, was clear jelly and the only way to describe it was hollow (like how a long bead would be hollow so you can run a string through it) it was pretty gross.
Here's pic of some of the weird poops after I used prazipro
Here was one of the poops one of the two fish did right before the archerfish died. Almost like the poop came out moldy or immediately after
The weird poop an hour after prazipro.
Did I ever think I'd post about fish poop but yup...poop
