Any idea what this is?

[connorlindeman]

Strange shape inside my Corydora Virginae.

Any idea what is could be?

 

[Caesar]

Looks like an internal parasite to me. If it moves from that spot it's likely the same as what I see in the kissing gourami we get from Indonesia. There's no real treatment aside from manually removing them.

 

[Colin_T]

Parasitic worm that got lost in the fish. It happens sometimes when it rains. The rain washes animal poop into water ways and intestinal worms end up in the river. The fish pick up the worm eggs and the worm larvae appear in the fish. But because the fish is not the correct host for the worm, the worm gets lost in the body and can appear anywhere in the fish.

You can try deworming the fish. Flubendazole treats flat and round worms. Levamisole treats round worms. Praziquantel treats flat worms.

See section 3 of the following link for more info about deworming fish.

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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[connorlindeman]

Parasitic worm that got lost in the fish. It happens sometimes when it rains. The rain washes animal poop into water ways and intestinal worms end up in the river. The fish pick up the worm eggs and the worm larvae appear in the fish. But because the fish is not the correct host for the worm, the worm gets lost in the body and can appear anywhere in the fish.

You can try deworming the fish. Flubendazole treats flat and round worms. Levamisole treats round worms. Praziquantel treats flat worms.

See section 3 of the following link for more info about deworming fish.

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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thanks!

 

[connorlindeman]

Looks like an internal parasite to me. If it moves from that spot it's likely the same as what I see in the kissing gourami we get from Indonesia. There's no real treatment aside from manually removing them.

thanks!

 

[connorlindeman]

Parasitic worm that got lost in the fish. It happens sometimes when it rains. The rain washes animal poop into water ways and intestinal worms end up in the river. The fish pick up the worm eggs and the worm larvae appear in the fish. But because the fish is not the correct host for the worm, the worm gets lost in the body and can appear anywhere in the fish.

You can try deworming the fish. Flubendazole treats flat and round worms. Levamisole treats round worms. Praziquantel treats flat worms.

See section 3 of the following link for more info about deworming fish.

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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will it kill the fish? is it necessary to deworm it?

 

[Colin_T]

It depends on where the worm ends up. Most of the time they end up in the muscle tissue and spend the rest of their lives sitting there doing nothing. But if the worm ends up in the liver or another organ, it can kill the fish.

You don't have to deworm the fish and deworming medications might not even work. But it is worth deworming fish if you have a number of them that are infected, or if the fish is expensive, or you want to make sure all the fish don't have intestinal worms.