When a discus has long stringy poop the first thing that comes to mind is Internal parasites. Among all intestinal protozoa Hexamita is the most notorious cause of white poop in discus. When a fish has an infection the poop will turn out to be lumpy yellowish or stringy white which hangs down from the rear of the fish.

These internal parasites could be either intestinal protozoa or intestinal worms.

Oscar fish Other than hexamita some believe that spironucleus which is known for causing hole in the head disease in There can be a number of reasons for such poop stress being one of them. The major reasons of white stringy poop are digestive disorders and diarrhea. Fish poop does look like string. Especially in a baby oscar who is eating a ton and pooping all the time. Without a clear photo its impossible to guess if somethings wrong or not. However when white clear stringy poop isn t normal its almost always parasites worms. Today is sunday march 16th. 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.

I chose for the first day not to feed him as i wanted him to get use to things. On saturday i plopped some frozen blood worms into his tank and watched him eat them up. I noticed a weird poop color coming out of him though. 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. 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. Ich is a highly infectious disease so if you see white spots on one fish it is likely that the others in the tank have already been exposed. For this reason it is typically better to treat the whole tank rather than quarantining the infected fish. Treatments for ich include salt baths increased tank temperature potassium permanganate

Poop With White Strings - toxoplasmosis
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