Guppy With White Stringy Pool (and Red)

[2manyfish]

Hi-

I have a female guppy (young) who has white stringy poo coming out and now it's streaked with red. She was in a 29 gallon tank,now in a 5 gallon hospital (I just moved her). I treated the big tank with Fungus Clear last night since some of the fish had a few white spots on them. I noticed the poo this morning. She is not very active and not interested in eating. I will add some salt to the hospital tank but what else? The big tank has 0 nitrates but 40 nitrates. and the ammonia is very low - a bit above 0. She is just laying on the bottom and I don't have much hope. Breathing a bit hard but not much....

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Sherrie

 

[GuppyGoddess]

Your female has camallanus worms so your whole tank has it. One of my guppies had symptoms of it and the entire tank had to be treated with levamisole. The one with the symptoms I took to the store to show them because they didn't believe me. Then when I treated the tank one of the two remaining guppies died (the worm pushed its way out and the fish's entire insides came out too - I found him happily swimming around in his tank with it all out! Weird)

You can either try and get levamisole through a farming vet/livestock store or use panacure from Petco. . .it's a dog dewormer. I called about 10 vets before I found a place that carries Levamisole (it's sold as a cattle dewormer).

There is tons of info online here on TFF and on google about camallanus.

Be careful about cross-contaminating tools between tanks (do not share nets, etc.)

 

[WILDER]

Just want to make sure you don't feed any red food or bloodworms.

Signs of internal parasites are as follows.

Long stringy white poo or clear mucas poo,. Sometimes red poo.
Worms prutruding from the anus.
Enlarged anus to red inflamed anus.
Fish will look skinny or bloated.
Fish will sometimes swim on its side.
Flicking and rubbing sometimes.
Sunken in belly sometimes.
Bent spine sometimes.

 

[2manyfish]

Well she didn't make it - I expected that . I guss I should treat the whole tank, I have mollies, guppies and a pleco in it. How much do I put in (assuming I can get it)

Thanks,

Sherrie

 

[WILDER]

Not sure on the dosage as I have never used levaimsole.
Ask in tropical discussion as quite alot of members have used levaimsole.
R.I.P.
Good luck.

 

[WILDER]

Link to levaimsole
http/www.loaches.com/disease-treatment/l...hydrochloride-1

 

[GuppyGoddess]

I'm sorry your guppy didn't make it

I got my levamisole through:

http/www.inkmkr.com/Fish/ItemsForSale.html

It's weight per how many gallons of water in the tank. My tank is so small though that I just roughly estimated based on the size of packet I have.

Be sure to keep your tank covered while treating!