Platy Fish With Internal Parasites Or Poop?

[CT 501]

Does my platy have internal parasites? The poop sometimes is brown or green but then at the end of the poop, there is some white. Internal parasites or poop? Sometimes the poop hangs but it isn’t white or stringy. Provided you the description.

 

[Colin_T]

Hi and welcome to the forum

Probably intestinal worms. See section 3 of the following link for treating fish for intestinal worms.

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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[CT 501]

Hi and welcome to the forum

Probably intestinal worms. See section 3 of the following link for treating fish for intestinal worms.

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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Are you sure its worms?

 

[Rocky998]

Are you sure its worms?

When Colin says its worms... Its worms. You can trust him. He is VERY knowledgeable on this matter.

Also, love your profile picture

 

[Colin_T]

If the fish is eating well and acting normal, then it's probably intestinal worms.

If the fish has stopped eating then it's an issue.

 

[CT 501]

If the fish is eating well and acting normal, then it's probably intestinal worms.

If the fish has stopped eating then nit's an issue.

I am seeing the poop, the poop is brown but then then it looks like it is hanging from a string. It does not have the same color in the picture above. It’s brown but looks like hanging from a string

 

[CT 501]

Hi and welcome to the forum

Probably intestinal worms. See section 3 of the following link for treating fish for intestinal worms.

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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And also it is not stringy or white poop. As said in the section 3 of the article, when it said that intestinal worms will have white stringy, jt isn’t white or stringy

 

[Colin_T]

is the fish eating well?

 

[CT 501]

is the fish eating well?

Yes, she is eating well, right now i am seeing the poop color is green and sometimes it hangs from a string. Right now at this minute, the poop color was a solid green, i never feed them green stuff so that’s werid. And i have no plants in the tank, parasites or not?

 

[Colin_T]

the colour of the food often causes the poop to be that colour (green, brown).

the stringy stuff and eating well usually indicates worms.

 

[CT 501]

Hello, is this platy skinny and has worms? The last picture to the right, what is that white thing hanging? Internal parasites or worms?! It isn’t white or stringy it is solid and short. Another thing to add, she poops sometimes green and black poop and its sometimes long, and the end of the poop curls.

 

[CT 501]

the colour of the food often causes the poop to be that colour (green, brown).

the stringy stuff and eating well usually indicates worms.

But the color of the food is red collin! She sometimes poops black green poop and at the end of the poop it curls

 

[CT 501]

the colour of the food often causes the poop to be that colour (green, brown).

the stringy stuff and eating well usually indicates worms.

But the color of the food is red collin! She sometimes poops black green poop and at the end of the poopm

the colour of the food often causes the poop to be that colour (green, brown).

the stringy stuff and eating well usually indicates worms.

Collin, can i use PraziPro to treat this! Its a dewormer med

 

[Colin_T]

Use Levamisole or Flubendazole first because they treat thread/ round worms and that is the most common worm in platies.

Praziquantel only treats tapeworm.

 

[CT 501]

Use Levamisole or Flubendazole first because they treat thread/ round worms and that is the most common worm in platies.

Praziquantel only treats tapeworm.

How are you sure this is a round worm or thread worm? Are you sure she has one of those you can identify