Help! My Midas Blenny is in trouble.

[Roy 9121]

Roy, is there any resemblance between the fish-like creature you saw in your tank and these guys:



(not my video) ... they're mysid shrimp, but can often look like small fish.

~Bruce

I guess it could be, but it was much smaller and bright red. Guess it could have been some kind of copod.

 

[PJS]

Good luck with your Blenny Roy.

 

[Sycoticrealm]

I had fish that had on and off white string bowel movements for years never died they got sold and are still doing good.
That why I asked that weird can they live that long with parasites?

 

[Sycoticrealm]

From my tank those mysid explode in population in a few months best food for a Mandarin you can gut load them with flake food.

 

[domination2580]

From my tank those mysid explode in population in a few months best food for a Mandarin you can gut load them with flake food.

Ok where do I order?

 

[Humblefish]

I had fish that had on and off white string bowel movements for years never died they got sold and are still doing good.
That why I asked that weird can they live that long with parasites?

Depends on the type of internal parasite - they all cause white stringy poop. I also suspect hardiness of the species comes into play.

For example, I know a lady with a Tomato Clownfish that had tapeworms for 9 years before she decided to treat & clear it up. I scope ID'd the poop.

But I also know a public aquarium with a pair of Blue Star Leopard Wrasses that had white stringy poop but declined to treat. They both died later in the same week that symptoms first showed, and a necropsy showed that Hexamita was present in their gut. No other pathogens were found which could have explained the sudden deaths.

 

[Sycoticrealm]

Oh, God don't say this to me now I'm worried.
The clowns I just got had white stringy feces but has gone away and is brown now.
Does it have to be thin too be considered stringy?
And if I do have parasites myself that may explain why my new Bangaii cards are not eating much?

 

[Humblefish]

@Sycoticrealm It will look like this:

Internal parasites can cause appetite suppression.

 

[Sycoticrealm]

No appetite problems here for the clowns blenny or Hawkfish just my new Bangaii Cards.
It was a think long round tube like feces.
White then brown maybe it was change of diet and maybe bowel irradiation from not being fed correctly before I purchased them?

 

[Humblefish]

White then brown maybe it was change of diet and maybe bowel irradiation from not being fed correctly before I purchased them?

If it stays brown - and you never see white again - I wouldn't worry about it. :)