Fish Poop is weird

[IcK]

Hey guys my fish's poop was just super long and stringy, its usually pretty big brown and will pump I guess. Internal parasite or maybe is constipated? its not how it usually looks it kinda worries me.

-Jay

 

[volcomstone]

It's more than likely a parasitic infection. I've going through the same dilemma with my fishes and I've been treating w/ prazi-pro and jungle parasite clear. So far I've noticed improvements on their poop but I'm still continuing to treat.

 

[IcK]

can you usually pick that stuff up at petsmart?

 

[volcomstone]

can you usually pick that stuff up at petsmart?

The jungle stuff you can...even my local walmart has it. But the prazi-pro you'd probably have to go to a other LFS.

 

[Chaitika]

Just to be clear, you haven't changed anything like the fishes' diet or the substrate, have you?

I agree with treating if nothing has been changed in your set up.

If you're not already using a food laced with garlic, you may want to try a garlic extract or a food product with garlic in it. Garlic will make your fishes' gut a hostile environment for parasites. That's one of my main reasons for using NLS products.

 

[IcK]

I am feeding him with hikari bio-gold and I am pretty sure it has garlic in it, i got the jungle parasite clear so we will see how that works, its worth a shot

 

[Dmaan.]

did you change anything in their feeding?

 

[IcK]

about 2-3 weeks ago I switched from hikari cichlid staple to hikari bio-gold

 

[Dmaan.]

ooh, i guess that wouldn't really have a big effect.

i'd probably just keep up with the water changes and cleaning your tank.
maybe throw it some pond melafix, i've known it to cure everything.

if i notice something different with my midas i just immediately throw in some melafix
and it goes away? lol.

 

[IcK]

any one have any other ideas?