The long trail is white stringy poop which is an indication of an intestinal infection. This could be round worms, flat worms or a bacterial infection or a protozoan infection.
Praziquantel kills flat worms but not round worms. Another med, levamisole, is need to treat round worms. Or use flubendazole, which kills both.
For a protozoan infection, you would need metronidazole.
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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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