Spiny eel with "spear" of poop hanging out for a week

[Kakaopuff]

Well, the title says it really..

Our newest spiny eel (we have a larger tiretrack eel already) has had, for the past week or week and a half had a small spear-looking piece of poo hanging out but never dropping, I figured maybe he hadn't eaten for a long time at the LFS and it would drop off in a little time and food; but that wasn't the case.

I'm now considering other alternatives and if anyone has any helpful ideas I'm very interested
Slowly raising the temp to 30 c and then down helped someone and osmosis salt or similar helped someone else.
Any idea what the best option is?

I can take a picture if that helps and in identifying the eel if that is relevant in the solution aswell, i only know him by the LFS name in swedish.

Many thanks

 

[jstehman]

Soak his food in epsom salt mixed with water. It will act as a laxative

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[Fat Homer]

Just by the sound of it, seems to me like it could potentially be some type of internal parasite...

Eitherway, try using some epsom salt first to see if you can get your eel to release it naturally, if it doesnt help, i would suggest posting up a photo of the problem to help make identifying the problem slightly easier...