Poop revisited

[gwand]

Is this long whitish string of poop indicative of worms?

 

[Colin_T]

It could be from diet, worms or an internal infection.

Is the fish eating normally?
If the fish is eating normally, then it's not an internal bacterial or protozoan infection and could be worms or food related.

Have you changed its diet in the last week?
A sudden change in diet can upset the stomach and intestine and cause weird coloured poop for a week or so.

What colour is the fish food?
White or light coloured food can cause light coloured poop. Liver problems can also cause it but are rare in fish. Dark coloured food normally makes the poop darker (eg: green food = green poop, red food = red poop, brown food = brown or black poop).

Long poop can be from the fish being well fed and just needing to do a big poop.

 

[gwand]

It could be from diet, worms or an internal infection.

Is the fish eating normally?
If the fish is eating normally, then it's not an internal bacterial or protozoan infection and could be worms or food related.

Have you changed its diet in the last week?
A sudden change in diet can upset the stomach and intestine and cause weird coloured poop for a week or so.

What colour is the fish food?
White or light coloured food can cause light coloured poop. Liver problems can also cause it but are rare in fish. Dark coloured food normally makes the poop darker (eg: green food = green poop, red food = red poop, brown food = brown or black poop).

Long poop can be from the fish being well fed and just needing to do a big poop.

Fish is eating normally. No change in diet. Food varies during week: either tetra colored flakes, Hikari micro pellets and frozen brine shrimp.

 

[Colin_T]

Did you deworm them recently?
If yes, what did you use?
If no, try deworming them.

Section 3 of the following link has info on 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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[gwand]

Did you deworm them recently?
If yes, what did you use?
If no, try deworming them.

Section 3 of the following link has info on 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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10 days ago I used praziquantel and metronidazole.

 

[Colin_T]

10 days ago I used praziquantel and metronidazole.

Have you treated them for thread/ round worms?
If not, then get some Levamisole and use that once a week for 3-4 weeks.

 

[gwand]

Have you treated them for thread/ round worms?
If not, then get some Levamisole and use that once a week for 3-4 weeks.

I have flubebenzadole. Will that work?

 

[Colin_T]

Yes Flubendazole will treat all types of worms (flat and round) that infect fish. I think it can affect shrimp and snails too but you will need to check on that.