Sick angelfish?

[Av3206]

Hello I have a decent sized male angelfish who is not eating. He looks like he has an impacted bowl or a infected breeding tube. I attached a picture. Has anyone come across this.

 

[Colin_T]

Camallanus worms. These are a parasitic intestinal round/ thread worm. If one fish has it, all your fish will have it.

See section 3 of the following link for treating intestinal worms in fish. Flubendazole is a good choice in the USA, otherwise look for Levamisole.

What to do if your fish has Stringy White Poop.

Fish do a stringy white poop for several reasons. 1) Internal Bacterial Infections causes the fish to stop eating, swell up like a balloon, breath heavily at the surface or near a filter outlet, do stringy white poop, and die within 24-48 hours of showing these symptoms. This cannot normally be...

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If the fish has stopped eating, check the water quality and maybe do a water change and gravel clean the substrate. Clean the filter too if it hasn't been done in a while.
Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the tank.

edited to fix a late night of typing

 

[Sgooosh]

. Flubendazole is a good choice in the USA, otherwise look for flubendazole.

 

[Av3206]

Thanks I have paracleans on hand I also clean the tank often 1-2 weeks. I will do this treatment and try to track down that medication.

 

[Colin_T]

See section 3 of the following link for treating intestinal worms in fish. Flubendazole is a good choice in the USA, otherwise look for Flubendazole

sorry should have written Flubendazole otherwise look for Levamisole.

 

[Sgooosh]

sorry should have written Flubendazole otherwise look for Levamisole.

ohhh that makes sense!
i thought Flubendazole (capitalized
was a brand lol!)

 

[Colin_T]

Nothing like that, just the brain doing one thing while the fingers type something else