Bulging poop in Guppy? Turning red.

[biofish]

Hello everyone! I’ve been having a rough week with my fish. And I honestly feel like I’m one more lost fish away from having a mental break down. Casper, my Cory cat that had his eye eaten by a beta a couple months ago passed probably due to complications from the bite, I bought a few more fish to help increase the genetics in my guppy population and not one but two female guppies jumped out of the quarantine tank (a large orange bucket filled with water directly from my main tank with a filter strapped on and some plastic wrap as a lid with small holes for airflow) luckily I managed to save one and put her back in but the other died. And then TWO of the new Cory’s I bought and out in a proper quarantine tank died last night for unknown reasons. The other two Cory’s I bought are still fine as are the male guppies they’re quarantining in. And one of my glo zebra tetras radiply lost ALL their weight and looks like a stick with a head. They still eat with a gusto and are active but they look one strong current away from dying.

And now one of my older female guppies that I’ve had for a few months has a really weird poop. I thought maybe she had just eaten a slightly older fry and was just having a bit of difficulty passing it, but now there are splotches of red in the poop. Is it tearing her insides?

I’ve had a few fish that have died from pooping out thick fuzzy white poop; looked like the ate dust or something and couldn’t get it through. Don’t have any pictures of them though. And this one in my lady looks different. More like a fry.

 

[JuiceBox52]

It looks like a prolapse to me. Could be caused by constipation. Fast them for a couple days and then feed a cooked, shelled pea crushed up

 

[JuiceBox52]

Keep the water extra clean to help prevent infection to the prolapse. Also deworming them may help

 

[biofish]

More pics! And ok! I’ll try doing that! They were due for a water change anyway. She’s usually a super bright purple color.

 

[JuiceBox52]

Being pale is from stress. Since she's a female guppy the prolapse could be also from trying to birth one of her fry. Poor baby

 

[biofish]

Thank you for responding. I hope she makes it, I’ve had her for months and her name is Periwinkle. I will do my best to help her. Because I’ve been having to leave a lot setting up feeders, they haven’t had their usual skip a meal day for a bit so I wonder if that had to do with it.

 

[biofish]

Oh god I think I just realized that the uptick in deaths due to the fuzzy thick poop started when I stopped skipping a feeding day every week. Because it’s happened in all 4 of my tanks. The white fuzzy poo followed by death. Oh my god. I used to skip a feeding day avoid such issues and I just. I’ve been helping my sister renovate her new house for several weeks and I’ve just been feeding them everyday I’m home and setting up a feeder to feed once a day when I’m away and now I feel horrible. I never gave them a break. I feel horrible for forgetting something so BASIC.

 

[JuiceBox52]

Do you have an automatic feeder? Those do tend to overfeed. However I don't think overfeeding would cause fuzzy poop, I'm not sure what would

 

[JuiceBox52]

Did your other fish have prolapse as well?

 

[biofish]

I really didn’t think of them as prolapse before you mentioned it but now I think it might be. It’s happened to only a couple of my male guppies and I’ve seen it most in my older fry who get fed multiple times a day.

I only use the automatic feeder when I’m traveling. When I’m home I feed them myself.

I’m not sure how to describe it. Was was really really thick and white and the edges weren’t as well defined as Perri’s are. Hence why I used the term ‘fuzzy’. And it was coming out of their anal hole so hence the term ‘poop’

If I see another fish with something I’ll try and grab a picture

 

[Colin_T]

The intestine is sticking out the fish's butt. This is becoming quite common and is mainly due to poor genetics. Sometimes it goes back in by itself, other times the fish dies with it still sticking out.

Make sure the fish have plenty of plant matter in their diet, do regular water changes and gravel cleans, and hope for the best.

The skinny danio might have worms. The guppies probably have intestinal worms and gill flukes too. You could try deworming the fish and see if it helps the danio. I would probably wait until the fish are out of quarantine and then deworm them all in the main display tank.

See section 3 of the following link for 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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Don't add any new fish for at least one month after you lose a fish. This gives everyone time to recover from the incident and reduces the chance of more fish dying.

If a fish does die in the tank, do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for one week after it died. Clean the filter too.
Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the tank.

 

[biofish]

Here’s the Danio, Lavender, if y’all wanna make a final conclusion.

What medications or process is best for deworming?

And what’s the best method for preventing the prolapses? Skipping meal days once a week and then feeding them regular pees? I feed my fish tetramin tropical flakes and shrimp sinking pellets with a rare blood worm day a few times a month.

I haven’t gotten new fish in a hot second; that’s why I wanted to increase the genetic variety. I already keep my males and females in different tanks so I can control who they reproduce with. I was trying to breed blue tailed male guppies… so far with not as much success but I have a lot of blue tailed female fry coming along that are very lovely.

 

[biofish]

See section 3 of the following link for deworming fish

Which one would you suggest? I researched them and the one with the highest rating is kinda expensive. And the cheaper ones are cheaper on a disturbing scale

 

[Colin_T]

flubendazole if you can get it otherwise start with levamisole

 

[biofish]

Sooooo I haven’t fed my females for a couple days, did a water change and gravel vacuum, and Perri’s prolapse vanished. I don’t know if it was ripped off by another fish or brushing against a decoration or if it got sucked back in… but it’s gone and she’s swimming normally and her colors are bright. Well… I’ll have to check in the morning about the swim thing. Because of course one of my other ladies (dunno which but I think it’s the blue and orange tailed one who you can see in the back of the photo and she’s HUGE) went into labor so the entire tank is a bit agitated. The prolapse was there before my water change today and disappeared afterwards… so I really hope I didn’t accidentally rip it off when I was moving the decorations to get better access to the gravel. If it was ripped off im Sure she would be dead… so it either got sucked back in or was a fry she ate and had a hard time passing…. I’m not gonna let myself get too hopeful about her survival chances though because that looked horrendous.

Perri is the one with the very vibrant purple tail. And these are pictures I just took 10 minutes ago