Oscar fish has poop

Today is Sunday March 16th. I chose for the first day not to feed him as I wanted him to get use to things. I noticed a weird poop color coming out of him though.

I purchased a baby oscar from a fish store on friday march 14th and brought him home and put him in his new tank and all seemed well.

Oscar fish On saturday i plopped some frozen blood worms into his tank and watched him eat them up. By tony.h on sat jan 26 2008 4 05 am in regards to the oscar poop mine the other day did a poop that was white and wormy looking but on closer examination was not a worm it was poop which got me thinking i ve feed them the same thing since they arrived here apart from a few tinfoil barb scales on occasion and algae of Overview oscar fish care. Overall oscar fish make excellent wet pets. Please be aware that the oscar cichlid grows really fast. That little 3-inch fish you purchased will be around 9-10 inches within 12 months. Please make sure you have the space for an oscar fish when you purchase it. A lot of fish keepers seem to be under the misapprehension that keeping tropical fish is easy and it s just a case of filling the tank up with water chucking a few fish in and then feeding them two or three times a day. If you want to keep your fish alive and healthy then you as a fish keeper have got to do your bit.

My son has 2 oscars. He also recently added a sucker fish. We found the sucker fish dead yesterday with bites on his body. We think the oscars attacked him. Now this morning one of the oscars who stopped swimming as much has a white string coming from it s stomach. There are also the same strings laying on the bottom of the tank. The strings look like they have a head. When a discus has long stringy poop the first thing that comes to mind is internal parasites. These internal parasites could be either intestinal protozoa or intestinal worms.

Among all intestinal protozoa hexamita is the most notorious cause of white poop in discus. Other than hexamita some believe that spironucleus which is known for causing hole in the head disease in Affected fish may also display behavioral changes appearing listless and or lethargic. As soon as you suspect that one of your cichlids has contracted this disease remove all other fish to a hospital tank and treat the tank with melafix. You will also need to thoroughly clean and disinfect the original tank before you add the fish back to the After i saw the white stringy poop last night he started to have another one. However after about a 1 4 inch or so of it being stringy and white it was attached toa normal looking pretty large and girthy red poop. He still cont his above activity ie sitting on bottom for a few min than hovering for a few min.