parasites

My purple tang has white stringy poop, and my initial assumption is internal parasites, but reading a few posts here it sounds like there can be other causes, like an insufficiently varied diet. I feed a mix of Modern Reef pellets, and frozen Mysis shrimp as well as sea veggies (though possibly...

My black oscilaris clown fish, today had white string by his gills on each side that went away in a few hours. His slime coat looks more noticeable and his eyes look a bit dull. He is eating well but his mouth is opening and closing quickly. He also is not in his anemone today and is just...

Hi all, I’ve had a pair of ocellaris for about a week now in my 15 gallon cube and noticed that my bigger one (Jess) has been breathing slightly faster than the smaller one (Nick). I’ve been experimenting with different food and they’re slowly warming up to Nutramar Gamma Complete Marine after...

Why haven’t anyone company created a adrenaline food or specific dip for fish? To aid in fighting off parasites? I mean it seems like a smart thing to do. If fish had a certain time window to fight off bacterial/ parasites etc they would live.

Hope everyone is doing well. I have decided to restart my saltwater journey with a bigger aquarium (will read more articles and advice on this forum :)). not sure if I should keep anything from this one, don't want to move over any parasites (aiptasia). Really disappointed and sad. Live and...

This morning I woke up to see a bunch of these really small white parasites crawling on the glass of my tank. Not sure what they are or if they need to be treated. Fish are all fine and don’t have any strange spots or markings on them. Fowlr tank that’s been running for almost 3 months. I know...

I have a small powder blue that eats, but doesn't get any meat on his bones. From top view, he looks like a tadpole. Full belly but skinny body. Ive been trying to give him metroplex on mysis once or twice a day but im not really sure he's eating it, he's shy. He will eat non medicated though...

Hey all, Recently I started noticing that both of my clowns had this white stringy poop on them multiple times a day, I researched a bit about it and found out that it might be a symptom of internal parasites. If it actually is parasites or some sort of infection, is it "contagious" to other...

Hi. I’ve had this candy cane Coral for a while now. And recently it’s been developing these worms or some sort of slime on the stalk of it, not sure what it is. There is also those white dots on it aswell. And recently when I was on vacation they have formed everyone on my tank. The back...

Hi! I’ve had these weird worms on my corals before and these little bubble things on my corals and now they are growing on my rocks. I’m not sure what these are. I was never worried about these until I just saw them right now on my rocks. I will upload a couple of pictures.

Hey everyone, my aquarium has been very healthy and happy for some time and shows consistent improvement... For everyone but my Emerald Crabs. They don't ever seem to shed, have been dropping limbs, and their shells no longer appear bright and green. They are some of my longest cared for reef...

Can someone help me identify what these are? I appear to have two groups of them. One are little white circular organisms on the front glass, which are much more dense and prevalent, and then I have little white worms on the sides and back wall of the tank. My fish are swimming and appear...

I am shocked. I purchased a small orchid dottyback about 3 weeks ago. Put him in my 5.5 G QT tank. Medicated the tank for the first week and a half and have observed him since. He always looked completely fine. Ate a lot. One mishap was when he got scared and jumped into the hang on back filter...

I’ve had an eventful last few days to say the least. Ordered 2 longspine cardinalfish from LiveAquaria and on arrival noticed a bit of fin rot and white poop: So I went out and bought my first quarantine tank and treated a few days of Paraguard and a few days after with PraziPro. 9 days...

I received 2 longspine cardinalfish from LiveAquaria yesterday - they seemed healthy but as I was getting them acclimated I noticed this white stringy poop - which sent me on a tailspin of going out and buying a quarantine tank and now Im trying to figure out where I go from here. Does this...

Hi everyone, Do any of you know what this is growing on the bottom of this montipora? Coral isn’t happy, planning a lugol’s dip and slight relocation. Thanks, Adam

Hi everyone, Do any of you know what this is growing on the bottom of this montipora? Coral isn’t happy, planning a lugol’s dip and slight relocation. Thanks, Adam

I have a few month old 3.5 ish gallon tank with one Turbo Snail, a ton of live rock from E-bay (claimed the live rock was cured) and a large mushroom coral frag. The live rock is teaming with life, so it is hard to tell the difference between what is a live rock hitchhiker and what is a...

Hi all, I have a little 2-inch Tomini tang in QT right now, he has been there for about 2 weeks. We haven't done any medication yet because he wasn't eating at first and we didn't want to stress him further. He is eating just fine now, and has become more active (still a complete scaredy cat...

I have just over a year old CB Biota tang I purchased from Live Aquaria. He has always had slight HLLE. I feed frozen food soaked in selcon and plenty of Nori. HLLE has not healed but is not getting worse as he ages. Trying to do everything I can to make sure he is healthy as possible. Noticing...

Alright, so I have parasite outbreaks like ich. I am wondering what is the best way to setup a medicine/quarantine tank. I got a Fluval over the back filter and took the carbon out and instead put in zeolite for the ammonia. I also have a heater and airstone. Does the tank itself need to cycle...

Just wondering, are there any fish that are less likely/impossible to contract parasite or diseases? I’ve heard that blennies possibly are less susceptible to it maybe?

I have a 32g Biocube tank with 2 clowns, 2 fire fish and 1 mandarin goby. I have some softies and LPS. For invertebrates, have BTA, cleaner shrimp, crabs, snails. Today, all of a sudden, all but mandarin are flashing. One clown has been periodically hanging near surface of water with rapid...

Hey guys, I'm currently quarantining two small clownfish and one small 6-line wrasse. Over the course of a week I have slowly been bringing them up to therapeutic levels of copper. I am noticing that both clowns have white stringy poop which, (feel free to correct me if I am wrong) are symptoms...