White, Solid Poop from my 2 Leopard Wrasses

[bwomac44]

I have read that both white and stringy poop clearly indicates internal parasites. I watched my 2 Leopard Wrasses yesterday morning take a morning poo and it was white, but solid. Same thing again today, but I managed to suck the the turds out and snap a pic.
They eat PE mysis, 2 Little Fishies green and purple nori, and Hikari marine-s pellets.

They are pigs. They are seemingly quite healthy. They do not have any other symptoms so far as I can tell. They have been in the system for 3 months or so after a 4 or 5 week "observation" QT (no chemicals).

What are your thoughts on this? Parasites?
Should I be considering treatment? Like Seachem Metroplex and Focus
All my other fish have brown poo.

If they only ate mysis I could see the poop being white, but they eat quite a bit of nori, and pellets every third day.

 

[Mastiffsrule]

I think we have a poop expert:), hope she doesn’t get mad

@ngoodermuth

 

[lolmatt]

Likely intestinal parasite or worm or something similar, these fish that sleep in the sand often come loaded up with internal crap. They often have gill flukes too, so treating your tank with prazipro twice can hardly hurt.

Feed them food soaked with api general cure or metro+focus, you can mix up a cube of mysis, a little tank water, and a scoop of med, let it sit for 30 minutes and feed that every day or two for a week or two...Not 100% sure how long to feed for.

 

[ngoodermuth]

I always de-worm wrasses regardless - they are very prone to intestinal parasites.

That doesn’t look like the “typical” parasite poop though. If they are still eating well, could probably just keep and eye on it - but if you want t treat it won’t hurt!

 

[ngoodermuth]

Likely intestinal parasite or worm or something similar, these fish that sleep in the sand often come loaded up with internal crap. They often have gill flukes too, so treating your tank with prazipro twice can hardly hurt.

Feed them food soaked with api general cure or metro+focus, you can mix up a cube of mysis, a little tank water, and a scoop of med, let it sit for 30 minutes and feed that every day or two for a week or two...Not 100% sure how long to feed for.

2-3 weeks for active parasites, At least 10 days prophylactically :)

 

[ngoodermuth]

I think we have a poop expert:), hope she doesn’t get mad

@ngoodermuth

I’m a mom, I’m used to being a poop expert [emoji23][emoji23]

 

[bwomac44]

2-3 weeks for active parasites, At least 10 days prophylactically :)

Awesome! Thanks so much. So you’re saying treatment for at least 10 days, but up to 2-3 weeks?
I’m thinking I’ll feed metro + focus for 2 weeks :) thanks!

 

[Frtdrmrose7]

Standard treatment is 14 days but may need to go to 21 if they are stubborn

 

[mjh_polo]

Hey, did you ever find out what it was? What treatments did you end up using? Did those treatments affect your coral? I have a black leopard wrasse producing the same solid white poop, but I’m hesitant on treating my mixed reef with medications. Ive heard feeding metro with a binder like focus or agar would make the medication teef safe, but I’d like to hear some second opinions