Sick or Behavioral

[spartanman22]

I feel like I’ve been on this section of the forum nonstop lately!

Long story short I had a velvet outbreak in my display. All fish were QT’d but somehow velvet snuck through.

I pulled my whitetail bristle tooth, so line, and storm clown pair and ran through QT a second time. The display remained fallow for 6 weeks. During the 6th week I ran a Dxaquaria PCR analysis and confirmed zero measurable pathogens (for whatever that’s worth).

Everyone looks happy and healthy with the exception being the bristle tooth. The fish were run through 30 days of coppersafe at 2.35 ppm minimum (2.35-2.50 on average). Then due to a pesky black ich issue I ran 3 rounds of prazi (starting in week 4 of copper). So all said and done felt pretty confident these guys were velvet and any type of worms free.

I’ve noticed some odd behavior from the Bristletooth since being back in the DT. He’s been back in the DT for 2 weeks now and this past week, week and a half he’s been exhibiting fluke or velvet type symptoms: flashing, swimming into flow, pale color. No rapid breathing, but he only does it within an hour or two of lights out. Then daytime rolls around and he looks perfectly normal. So I’m inclined to think it’s just behavioral. However today I think I noticed an opaque smudge on one of his pectoral fins and he was in the process of pooping and it looked a bit stringy.

I find it really hard to believe he’s got any type of worm/fluke issues with 3 rounds of prazi but I’m not sure what to make of it at this point. At night time he behaves like he has flukes or velvet (only when the lights are dimming. Once out he settles in for the night). Then daytime comes around and he’s back to normal, eats great and nice rich coloring.

Am I being paranoid and this is just behavioral or should I be thinking treatment again?

 

[vetteguy53081]

I feel like I’ve been on this section of the forum nonstop lately!

Long story short I had a velvet outbreak in my display. All fish were QT’d but somehow velvet snuck through.

I pulled my whitetail bristle tooth, so line, and storm clown pair and ran through QT a second time. The display remained fallow for 6 weeks. During the 6th week I ran a Dxaquaria PCR analysis and confirmed zero measurable pathogens (for whatever that’s worth).

Everyone looks happy and healthy with the exception being the bristle tooth. The fish were run through 30 days of coppersafe at 2.35 ppm minimum (2.35-2.50 on average). Then due to a pesky black ich issue I ran 3 rounds of prazi (starting in week 4 of copper). So all said and done felt pretty confident these guys were velvet and any type of worms free.

I’ve noticed some odd behavior from the Bristletooth since being back in the DT. He’s been back in the DT for 2 weeks now and this past week, week and a half he’s been exhibiting fluke or velvet type symptoms: flashing, swimming into flow, pale color. No rapid breathing, but he only does it within an hour or two of lights out. Then daytime rolls around and he looks perfectly normal. So I’m inclined to think it’s just behavioral. However today I think I noticed an opaque smudge on one of his pectoral fins and he was in the process of pooping and it looked a bit stringy.

I find it really hard to believe he’s got any type of worm/fluke issues with 3 rounds of prazi but I’m not sure what to make of it at this point. At night time he behaves like he has flukes or velvet (only when the lights are dimming. Once out he settles in for the night). Then daytime comes around and he’s back to normal, eats great and nice rich coloring.

Am I being paranoid and this is just behavioral or should I be thinking treatment again?

Please provide video using bright white light intensity - No blue and of at least 25 seconds. I dont like mixing prazi with copper although you can, but provide video for best recommendation

 

[Jay Hemdal]

I feel like I’ve been on this section of the forum nonstop lately!

Long story short I had a velvet outbreak in my display. All fish were QT’d but somehow velvet snuck through.

I pulled my whitetail bristle tooth, so line, and storm clown pair and ran through QT a second time. The display remained fallow for 6 weeks. During the 6th week I ran a Dxaquaria PCR analysis and confirmed zero measurable pathogens (for whatever that’s worth).

Everyone looks happy and healthy with the exception being the bristle tooth. The fish were run through 30 days of coppersafe at 2.35 ppm minimum (2.35-2.50 on average). Then due to a pesky black ich issue I ran 3 rounds of prazi (starting in week 4 of copper). So all said and done felt pretty confident these guys were velvet and any type of worms free.

I’ve noticed some odd behavior from the Bristletooth since being back in the DT. He’s been back in the DT for 2 weeks now and this past week, week and a half he’s been exhibiting fluke or velvet type symptoms: flashing, swimming into flow, pale color. No rapid breathing, but he only does it within an hour or two of lights out. Then daytime rolls around and he looks perfectly normal. So I’m inclined to think it’s just behavioral. However today I think I noticed an opaque smudge on one of his pectoral fins and he was in the process of pooping and it looked a bit stringy.

I find it really hard to believe he’s got any type of worm/fluke issues with 3 rounds of prazi but I’m not sure what to make of it at this point. At night time he behaves like he has flukes or velvet (only when the lights are dimming. Once out he settles in for the night). Then daytime comes around and he’s back to normal, eats great and nice rich coloring.

Am I being paranoid and this is just behavioral or should I be thinking treatment again?

This could be behavioral to some extent, but the stringy feces and smudge on the fish aren’t related to that.

I agree - if you can capture this on video, it might help.

 

[spartanman22]

I’ll have to try for “whiter” videos later in the day but the problem is this behavior only presents itself between the hours of 7:00-9:00 pm when the tanks starts dimming and shifting blue before lights out. He doesn’t do any of this during the day when it’s primarily white spectrum.

 

[spartanman22]

This could be behavioral to some extent, but the stringy feces and smudge on the fish aren’t related to that.

I agree - if you can capture this on video, it might help.

I do want to observe some more poop though. I’ve noticed with this tank I get a ton of hair in the tank for some strange reason. Where I live seems to be really dusty compared to previous places and with a pregnant wife, small daughter and dog I find a ton of hair in the tank. So I’m partially curious if he got some hair with food. Probably not the case but want to at least try to rule that out.