Worm coming out my Platys nose

[Dubs89]

I got this male 4 weeks ago now. The week after I brought him home he started to wall surfs day and night. I have put him in different tanks with different set ups and different fish. Still nothing got him to stop. Now today I saw why. He has a worm in his nose! I beleive I saw it out of his eye as well. What is it and how do I save him? I would love to see what his personality is actually like.

water stays:
76 degrees
2 nitrate
1-2 nitrite (my filter broke down, doing 50% water changes daily). Just got the filter fixed today.
Kh 120ppm/ml
GH 160ppm/ml

He is housed in a 75 gallon with 3 Molly’s (all female) and 7 other platies (2 male 5 female). There is no bullying happening.

I noticed 3 other fish starting to smack themselves on leaves and sticks now as well...

Photos attached

 

[Betta89]

Quarantine him. You can pull the worm out with your hands I’ve seen people do that in several YouTube vedios mollies especially .. or get Antibiotics quickly and doze for 7 days.

 

[mcordelia]

I dont think antibiotics will help for a parasite. I think parasites respond negatively to salt treatment (I will find you a link for salt in a moment), or anti-parasite medications.

 

[mcordelia]

Here is a link for how to dose salt into your aquarium: https://www.fishforums.net/threads/white-bone-like-thing-on-my-fish-upper-lip.466287/#post-3990556

 

[Colin_T]

Hi and welcome to the forum

Can you post some pictures that are in focus and clearly show the alleged worm?

Fish don't get worms coming out of their nose.

The only thing I can see on the fish appears to be a bit of excess mucous on the face. This is normally caused by poor water quality, a dirty tank, or something in the water irritating the fish.

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DO NOT use anti-biotics on any animal, bird or fish unless it has a known bacterial infection that has not responded to normal treatments. Improper use and mis-use of anti-biotics has lead to drug resistant bacteria that kill people, animals, birds, fish and reptiles.

Anti-biotics do nothing to parasitic worms, yeast, viruses or fungus.

Anti-biotics only kill bacteria and even then, there are 2 main types of bacteria, gram negative and gram positive bacteria. As a general rule, medications that treat gram negative bacteria do nothing to gram positive bacteria and vice versa.

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Test your tank water for ammonia because that will cause excess mucous.

Get your nitrite down to 0 because also causes excess mucous.

You might find that when the water has 0 ammonia and 0 nitrite, the white bit clears up by itself.

 

[Betta89]

Hi and welcome to the forum

Can you post some pictures that are in focus and clearly show the alleged worm?

Fish don't get worms coming out of their nose.

The only thing I can see on the fish appears to be a bit of excess mucous on the face. This is normally caused by poor water quality, a dirty tank, or something in the water irritating the fish.

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DO NOT use anti-biotics on any animal, bird or fish unless it has a known bacterial infection that has not responded to normal treatments. Improper use and mis-use of anti-biotics has lead to drug resistant bacteria that kill people, animals, birds, fish and reptiles.

Anti-biotics do nothing to parasitic worms, yeast, viruses or fungus.

Anti-biotics only kill bacteria and even then, there are 2 main types of bacteria, gram negative and gram positive bacteria. As a general rule, medications that treat gram negative bacteria do nothing to gram positive bacteria and vice versa.

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Test your tank water for ammonia because that will cause excess mucous.

Get your nitrite down to 0 because also causes excess mucous.

You might find that when the water has 0 ammonia and 0 nitrite, the white bit clears up by itself.

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