White Stringy poop

[gregkarr09]

hey guys so I have been cycling a tank for 9 days now and Like a newbie I added 5 angel fish before the tank started to cycle Anyways I am doing everything I can to make these little guys survive 2 of the 5 are just fine swimming around just fine the other 3 are very stressed out. One of them is showing white stringy poop. What type of disease is that a sign of? and should I remove the fish from the tank so it doesn't infect the rest of the fish?


What I am doing thus far
1)Put a friends old filter cartridge behind my filter cartridge
2)using Seashem Prime to condition water
3)using Seashem Stability
4)using Aquarium salt (1 teaspoon per gallon)
5)20-30% water change everyday

 

[calioutlaw1a]

With the protocol you are using, it should not be an issue adding the 5 angel fish at day 9. If you have been following the Stability directions, the tank is probably already cycled.
Check your water parameters to make sure.

Angelfish seem rather prone to stress, and the stress is likely due to switching tanks, change in temperature, etc.

Just keep and eye on your water parameters. The white stringy poop isn't necessarily specific to any particular disease process, and is probably just a stress response (think diarrhea in a stressed mammal).

 

[gregkarr09]

ok Ammonia is less then .5 Nitrite is 1.0ppm and Nitrate almost 20ppm

 

[calioutlaw1a]

What size tank, and what size angels?
You should not have any nitrites, but your tank appears to be close to cycled.

Continue what you've been doing and that should keep the nitrites at a minimum, unless you have large angels in a small tank.

The other possibility is that you simply don't have enough surface area/biomedia for sufficient bacterial growth. What filtration are you running?

 

[gregkarr09]

the angels are only 1 inch fin to fin and a 50 gallon tank

 

[calioutlaw1a]

What is your filtration?

 

[Tom LoFaro]

Just keep up with your routine, in a week the tank should be cycled. I'd slow down on water changes to give the bacteria some time to grow.

 

[gregkarr09]

two HOB filters both rated for 50+ gallons

 

[gregkarr09]

Just keep up with your routine, in a week the tank should be cycled. I'd slow down on water changes to give the bacteria some time to grow.

I would love to bro but the fish seem very stressed so I feel like I have to do the WC to keep the Nitrite down

 

[kjfan1]

greg. tom may be a little more right than you this time.