Advice For My New Fish

[Twinklecaz]

Red Platy now has a white patch on his gill. It isn't fluffy or anything.

 

[Twinklecaz]

*Is gonna keep going on*

Red Platy I think may be slightly darkened in colour. I've also noticed you can almost see through the yellow one but I dunno if he's always been like that. He's also very fat! The Red one is a bit fat but not as much. The yellow and the black and white platy have definite red gills though! The smaller Honey has a bit but that seems to have slightly improved since I added the General Tonic.

I'm still having such trouble deciding what this is. How quickly will I see the Liquisil General Tonic clear things up if it's going to? One min I think it's a bacterial thing, next I think it's a parasite (coz of the white poo....it's pink quite often now though, is that a good or bad thing?) then I think it's gill flukes coz of the red gills (and maybe this is the white on the red platy) and they do sometimes "dash" and swim in an odd way.

I have the Interpret Anti Internal Bacteria medicine too. Do any of you think this is what this is and will it help? and bearing in mind I dosed the Liquisil 24 hours ago, when would it be safe for me to give it to them?

 

[JoshuaA]

White stringy poo normally indicates an internal parasite, Have they all got white poo (platies)?

Wat?

Exactly what colour is the poo suppose to be? When I get kept cold water fish years ago they nearly always had white poop and they lived for about 10 years and from day one it was white.

The poop from our fish varies from a pinkish/red > white > brown. We feed them Tetra Colour Pro, Nutrafin Flakes and Daphnia. To me it definitely seems like it varies on what they're fed.

Red/Pinkish = Tetra Colour (The colour of the flakes.
Whiteish = Daphnia are white? but it usually has a bit of brown in the poop too.
Nearly all brown = Nutrafin flakes, the flakes are all dark colours.

So does white poop always indicate a bacterial infection or is this just on a whim? Otherwise our fish are to say bluntly... Screwed.

We got a GBR a few days ago and it's poos vary colour similar to the other fish and their feeding habbits.

Finally....

TwinkleCaz,

Our Platy is behaving similar too, it was all lively until we added our 4th fish and its gone quiet, it hides in the plants a lot of the time and doesn't swim round as much as it use to in fact it more or less goes out for a sunday drive around the tank and that's it.

Currently we're putting it down to the fact the platy over indulges itself when it feasts, I suspect it may well be constipated.

Stats = 0,0 Nitrate = 15/20~

 

[PDSimon]

Poo should be brown...that indicates good digestion.

 

[JoshuaA]

Poo should be brown...that indicates good digestion.

So no matter what colour the food was the poop should always be brown? I know if I eat a lot of potatoes my poop comes out no problem but is definitely going to have a 90% beige consistency.

If I eat a lot of meat I know my poop is going to be very dark...

Does this principle not apply to fish lol?

 

[Twinklecaz]

Ha we're both screwed then!

Im gonna give them some peas tomorrow, see if digestion is an issue. Tho I don't think it's the only one. The gill/colour thing isn't good.

{edit} can I just say I was refering to my FISH'S poo

 

[Harlequins]

When i kept platies,their poo varied in colour to what they were fed,dark red if they had bloodworm,brown/yellow on flakes,and when they nabbed the algae wafers or cory granules they'd have green or red poo...

White or clear stringy poo can indicate a bacteria infection...on having new platies in a new tank last year,a white film was left around the tank after the cycling process and i know the platies use to nibble on this,which i think at the time produced white poo...just a thought

Also i know when i first got them i would stress out wondering if owt wrong with them and my mickey had red gills i thought she had been poisoned,i soon realised it was the colour of her

Can you get some pics up of your fishies?

Just a word of caution,be careful what meds you put into the tank,unless you know for sure what you are treating,has some meds can knock the water quality about,i found with interpet anti bacterial med i use to get a small amount of nitrite showing for a few days and thats with 2 fully mature filters running.

 

[JoshuaA]

Ha we're both screwed then!

Im gonna give them some peas tomorrow, see if digestion is an issue. Tho I don't think it's the only one. The gill/colour thing isn't good.

{edit} can I just say I was refering to my FISH'S poo

You lie, you didn't edit your post!!

Interesting this is...

Well I said exactly the same to my girlfriend give them a few peas when you go to work and when you get back fish out the remainders. However what's the point of giving the peas (more food) if apparently they are constipated ill or what not.

What I don't get is all the fish but the platy are swimming around happily and enjoying themselves the same if not more since day 1. All have the same types of poop but the platy is the looking depressed one.

The platy in fact seems to be breathing a little heavier than usual, like said water stats are perfect still. They have never been in water with Ammonia or Nitrite.

 

[Twinklecaz]

I know, mine's spot on too.

Thanks Harlequins. Yeah I think in fairness that may be the black and white one's colour but I don't think it's the yellow one's and I know it's not the Gourami's.

I dunno what to do about this med thing. I don't wanna mess my tank up but it might be exactly what they need

 

[Twinklecaz]

P.s I'll try and get pics up at the weekend. I've just googled yellow platy and actually found one as fat with gills as red so maybe he's fine.

Gourami isn't though, her colour has deffo changed.

 

[Harlequins]

Perhaps its the honey's natural colour coming out? they do tend to look a lot paler in lfs.

Have you a magnifying glass? if she has gill flukes you would see them hanging off her gills...

Here's my mickey,does its gills look like this?

 

[JoshuaA]

P.s I'll try and get pics up at the weekend. I've just googled yellow platy and actually found one as fat with gills as red so maybe he's fine.

Gourami isn't though, her colour has deffo changed.

Lighting is different to the store, the food you feed has a relevance on its depth of colours so I am lead to believe by a lot of information and a trusted LFS.

If there was something wrong with your gourami then there'd no doubt be a problem with your Platy too. I think you're looking too deep into the problem!

 

[PDSimon]

edit: never mind

 

[Twinklecaz]

I hope I am yeah. I'll try that magnifying glass thing. They're all kinda a bit see through too. Is that normal?

Ha ha Harlequins, your Platy looks just like mine! Cept yours has orange round the top. Mine has slightly redder gills but not much. It just worried me coz it looked a bit like blood. Having said that he's also the most playful, he goes and positions himself a few inches away from the filter flow and tries to swim into it.....never succeeding. It's quite funny really.

The Gourmais have yellowed up a bit. Still not sure about the darkened head or gills on the little one but I think I'm just gonna keep an eye. Deffo not getting my Corys till I'm 110% all's well.

 

[JoshuaA]

Our Platy looks like its on its death bed now!

It's really odd, it's acting as if its suffering from a disease where as the other fish are happily swimming around with no signs of illness and none of them are lethargic at all. In fact when I was doing the water change, the ram was attacking the siphon the molly AND Gourami were attacking my hand... was quite, quite an interesting feeling actually!

Anyway the only thing I have really noticed about the Platy is that it has actually increased its size (stomach area) and seems really slow at swimming and when it sits at the surface (not gasping at the surface) it seems bottom heavy (pointing up like a plane taking off).

It also seems to have a slightly different shade on its tail fin on the tip however none of the other fish have that so I assume its not a disease. Considering it was one of the first 3 fish to be introduced out of 4 now, and it's fellow companions which were added on the same day are as happy as larry my girlfriend is very confused.

At first we thought it may be constipation so we managed to only feed the other fish and not feed the platy (dropping the portions the other fish usually ate in the corner where they were, worked perfectly) Anyway the platy didn't bat an eyelid or move at all. So it's now almost 48 hours since the platy last ate something though its stomach/belly looks like it's still increasing... It is however not how the platy usually looks after its eaten (in which you can visibly see it get a little bit bigger).

I would be happy to find out it was pregnant and that somehow the Platy has retained or taken the 25 days we've had the fish for to breed. Anyone input on this from somewhere?

Currently I we have dropped some peas into the tank and we will fish them out later tonight, nothing else we could think of on what to do.