Healthy Guppy Poop?

[whyamiheretheysay]

I would just like to clarify, what exactly would be consider a heathy guppy's poop?
I see things about unhealthy or strange guppy poop, but I don't actually see any healthy poop. I just want to make sure I know what is what.

 

[Colin_T]

Hi and welcome to the forum

Healthy fish poop is coloured and can be any length but generally falls off the fish easily and quickly. It can be black, brown, red, green, etc. It depends on what the fish has been eating. If it has eaten a lot of plant matter, it could be green. Some colour enhancing foods make the poop go yellow or red.

If a fish does stringy white poop, then it has an intestinal problem. Basically the poop will be cream or white, sometimes it is semi-transparent. It tends to hang off the fish's butt for a while, hence the term stringy white poop.

The following link has information about stringy white poop in 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...

www.fishforums.net

 

[whyamiheretheysay]

Alright, thank you!