WHite string thing coming ourt of oscars anus ANYONE KNOWS???

[hugeheaddavid]

Had this Oscar for a month give him pellets to eat I also have another Oscar(albino) in the tank with him and two parrot fish and a giant sucker fish, they are in a 60 gallon tank Bowfront water conditions are clean, dont know why it got this??


posted a video on youtube of my tank so you can see the conditions: [Only Registered Users Can See Links.]

[genocidex]

looks like poo to me

[Pamela2Heaven]

Me, too - that is one big sucker fish.

[Crispy]

if it is consistently white, could mean internal parasites.

[Lady Hobbs]

Crispy's got it. Long white strings is internal worms. Fish poop the color of the food they eat. You need to get some PraziPro and treat all the fish in the tank which should be done anyway. Fish can carry worms all their life, diminish their life and health and we would not be aware they even have worms. Just like puppies!

But that tank is not going to work for those Oscars for long. One should have a mininium of 75 gallons alone.

[ldoerr]

That tank is WAY too small for the fish that you have in there now. You will need a tank of over 125g, maybe even 150g.

[fishguy66]

if it is consistently white, could mean internal parasites.

Absolutely correct. And, just to agree w/ everything else said here, that tank is WAAAYYY too small for what you have. From what I can see, looks like a 46 bow, not a 60, which is even worse. You have enough fish in there for a 300 gallon tank, let alone what you have. Overcrowding stresses out your fish, which leads to disease, so I'm not surprised that your fish has parasites. Get a bigger tank or cut back on what you have.

[baseball24311]

My tiger oscars had white poo like that and wouldn't eat at all figured it was internal parasites and treated them with tetra parasite guard and cleared it up in a week!

[MLBfan]

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