White poop on established coral beauty

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New reefer here. I’m the relatively new owner of an established tank. It’s got 4 fish, a coral beauty, one spot foxface, cardinal, and blue tang. They’ve all been in the tank a year plus. There have only been a few inverts and coral added the past 3 months.
The past day the coral beauty has had a white stringy poop. From my reading it sounds like intentional parasites.

Questions:
Do fish parasites just sprung up like this?

Should I treat? I have General Cure and Focus. I won’t be able to catch the coral beauty, she’s very shy so I’ll have to feed medicated food to all the fish.

If I don’t treat, us it likely the other fish will develop problems?

I’ve got two clowns in a observation quarantine tank I was going to add next week. Should I hold off adding them?

Any guidance is appreciated.
 
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White and stringy poop gets our attention. But we also look to see if the fish is eating like crazy but its stomach is shrunken or pinched in too.
 
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I was able to get a picture tonight but you can’t really see the streamer well.

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