Something Strange

[Queen Bee]

I have a community tank with guppies, mollies, platies, and tetras. One of the serpae tetra did something strange tonight. I never saw the first incident, but boyfriend did.

Water was changed as per normal on Saturday. No ammonia, nitrite, nitrate at 20, ph 8.

Fish were fed this morning apprx 13 hours ago. Tonight, I saw a lot of white dust like particles come out of the tetra's mouth. It was like a cloud, and the other fish in the tank scrambled to eat it.

Boyfriend said the first time it happened tonight, it was a much smaller cloud. Second time was much bigger.

What is this and should I be concerned? Fish looks normal and shows no signs of distress.

Have had the fish for about 2 months and never noticed anything like this before.

 

[LilMissSunshine]

This is the first I have heard of this for a tetra. My cichlids used to hord food in there mouths and expel it later but this sounds different. I hope you get a response, I couldn't find anything on the internet either.

 

[WILDER]

What was the colour of the food you gave him.
What do his gills look like.
Any signs of laboured breathing.

 

[Queen Bee]

What was the colour of the food you gave him.
What do his gills look like.
Any signs of laboured breathing.

Gills look normal. Can see no difference between it and any other tetra. Breathing normal. No gasping or hanging at surface.

Food is
TetraMin tropical crisps. They have the brown outer ring with either a red or green spot in the center. Once a week they get the omega I think it is called. It is a red flake that is very high in salmon protein.

 

[WILDER]

How the fish now.
Not sure what it is if I'm honest.

 

[Queen Bee]

Fish seem fine. Kept an eye on them last night, and nothing happened.

I couldn't find anything to explain it, but all seems well now.

Thanks for trying and looking into it.

 

[WILDER]

I thought it was just some dust particles.
Glad he's ok.
Noticed any thing coming out of his gills. As fish will flush there gills.