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[FishBlast]

Yep sounds like a parasite to me maybe came in with some of your new fish

I've never treated for them before so all I'd be doing is a google search so not much better than you can do lol. I hear good things about eSHa 2000 though.

Well, nothing I find online looks like this though. Searched white stringy poop, it shows only something semi-transparent white, but this looks exactly like thread. And it only was at the start, now the male is pooping normal after that segment.
Some say garlic flake would work if it's some kind of worm, but can normal garlic work too if I can't find that?
It looks like a piece of silvery, shiny white string. I took it out of the water with a net.

 

[Alm0stAwesome]

white poop = parasite. I don't think you need to worry about the exact consistency, shade and thickness lol

 

[FishBlast]

white poop = parasite. I don't think you need to worry about the exact consistency, shade and thickness lol

Yeah but what parasite?
It could be hexamita, could be nematode worms, treatment varies. Hexamita needs antibiotics, nematodes would die from garlic or prazi whatever that thing is (and i don't even know if we have that thing). Need to keep the fish under observation for today.

Treating the adult with food should work, but what about the fry? How do I make sure that one eats powder containing the meds?

 

[Alm0stAwesome]

Well you're very unlikely to identify the exact parasite (that's my impression anyway) therefore you need to just get a broad range parasite treatment

You should maybe open a new thread in the emergencies section for better help, Hey Lovelies likes poop but maybe not this much

 

[FishBlast]

Well you're very unlikely to identify the exact parasite (that's my impression anyway) therefore you need to just get a broad range parasite treatment

You should maybe open a new thread in the emergencies section for better help, Hey Lovelies likes poop but maybe not this much

I've opened it but no one seems to be there at the moment.
Also, there was another time when my fish pooped white: exactly when I only fed them daphnia for a whole day. But that changed when I mixed daphnia and flakes, or daphnia and bloodworms in the menu. This is why I'm wondering what exactly is going on. Bee and Tzuppy had white poop, and that was about a month ago, haven't seen it since then in them since I wasn't feeding only daphnia.

I put some flake powder and Sushi seems to like it.

 

[HAMBONE]

Hey Lovelies!!!


Back from camping... It was a great success.. Consumed all consumables.. Now I must consume some more.. Consumables that is.. Or so I has heard..

 

[FishBlast]

Oh man... now I think Chrome's next... he's breathing really fast and is swimming backwards on the sand. But he was fine just an hour ago...

 

[Ruskull]

Hambone, great to hear about your trip...............

FishBlast, maybe you could try seachem metronidazole? It's a bit expensive, like $8 or so, but it's a powdered thing that you can add to fish food so they consume it. Supposedly works for internal parasites which I treated with sucess using this. I put it in a small cup with frozen brine shrimp and warm water so it defrosts, adding the correct amount of meds, & shot it into the tank with a baby dropper. The fish love frozen brine shrimp so they all eat it.

Here's a link:

http/www.seachem.com/Products/product_pages/Metronidazole.html

Yep sounds like a parasite to me maybe came in with some of your new fish

I've never treated for them before so all I'd be doing is a google search so not much better than you can do lol. I hear good things about eSHa 2000 though.

Well, nothing I find online looks like this though. Searched white stringy poop, it shows only something semi-transparent white, but this looks exactly like thread. And it only was at the start, now the male is pooping normal after that segment.
Some say garlic flake would work if it's some kind of worm, but can normal garlic work too if I can't find that?
It looks like a piece of silvery, shiny white string. I took it out of the water with a net.

Look at it under a microscope or magnifying glass if you can.

 

[FishBlast]

Hambone, great to hear about your trip...............

FishBlast, maybe you could try seachem metronidazole? It's a bit expensive, like $8 or so, but it's a powdered thing that you can add to fish food so they consume it. Supposedly works for internal parasites which I treated with sucess using this. I put it in a small cup with frozen brine shrimp and warm water so it defrosts, adding the correct amount of meds, & shot it into the tank with a baby dropper. The fish love frozen brine shrimp so they all eat it.

Here's a link:

http/www.seachem.com/Products/product_pages/Metronidazole.html

Yep sounds like a parasite to me maybe came in with some of your new fish

I've never treated for them before so all I'd be doing is a google search so not much better than you can do lol. I hear good things about eSHa 2000 though.

Well, nothing I find online looks like this though. Searched white stringy poop, it shows only something semi-transparent white, but this looks exactly like thread. And it only was at the start, now the male is pooping normal after that segment.
Some say garlic flake would work if it's some kind of worm, but can normal garlic work too if I can't find that?
It looks like a piece of silvery, shiny white string. I took it out of the water with a net.

Look at it under a microscope or magnifying glass if you can.

I doubt they have any seachem products here if they don't even have Seachem Prime.
Don't need magnifying glass though it looked exactly like a piece of white thread (exactly same structure, as if 2 things are intertwined... could not tell the difference between it and a piece of thread). But could not find it once I took it out of the water, looks like it got destroyed in the net.

Now even worse, Chrome the lyretail fry is breathing fast, seems swollen, is pooping normal though, and is sitting on the sand bed. He won't move away even if Tzuppy lands next to him. He's doing this twitchy shimmy dance and then swims backwards a bit.

 

[FishFanatic04]

FB. Look for a powdered parasite medication that specifically says it can be added to food.


I like to take veggies pellets, a bit of water and add the powder. Then I dry it out under a fan. That covers the bottom feeders.


I slightly defrost brine shrimp, squish it with a fork, add the powder and then refreeze. That's for the rest.


I feed all my new fish for 3-7 days depending on if they look healthy or not. Sunken bellies= 7 days It is possible to get some weird poop after live foods.
The guppies and otos that I bought yesterday have just had their second dose. I only feed them once a day the first week to make sure they eat the food up.

 

[HAMBONE]

Well you're very unlikely to identify the exact parasite (that's my impression anyway) therefore you need to just get a broad range parasite treatment

You should maybe open a new thread in the emergencies section for better help, Hey Lovelies likes poop but maybe not this much

aint nothing wrong with a lil poop all up in Hey Lovelies.. Weren't the first time the thread got poopy, surely won't be the last.. not if I has anythang to do with it at least..

 

[FishFanatic04]

lol

 

[Alm0stAwesome]

hehe don't I know it, just thought she may get more help in a different section

 

[FishBlast]

FB. Look for a powdered parasite medication that specifically says it can be added to food.


I like to take veggies pellets, a bit of water and add the powder. Then I dry it out under a fan. That covers the bottom feeders.


I slightly defrost brine shrimp, squish it with a fork, add the powder and then refreeze. That's for the rest.


I feed all my new fish for 3-7 days depending on if they look healthy or not. Sunken bellies= 7 days It is possible to get some weird poop after live foods.
The guppies and otos that I bought yesterday have just had their second dose. I only feed them once a day the first week to make sure they eat the food up.

The problem is that i'd have to feed it to fry too. And the fry only take 1-2 bloodworms, no guarantee they'd go for the prepared food. No brine shrimp can be found around here.

And Chrome seems to be searching for food now on the sand, but his breathing concerns me. He has rapid gill movement, just like that swordtail I lost during January. Only that she wasn't eating, Chrome is eating.

I also did a re-check on nitrite. Still 0.

 

[FishFanatic04]

It works with flake food as well. You can put some water and powder in a spray bottle and spray it over some flake food, then let it dry the same as the wafer.

If you only feed once a day during that time, they will be hungry and will eat it.