Orange poop...

**themusician** · 12-10-2007, 12:44 AM

I don't suppose anti-parasitic food has ever made any of your fish poop bright orange, has it?

I'm suspecting not and am just about ready to chalk it up to yet more weirdness in my tank (down two cories and probably a tetra by the end of the night), but I just thought I'd check.

(I should mention that I have not actually witnessed the orange stuff coming from my fish, but my husband says he has...all I know is I have all this bright orange stuff sitting around in my tank that is about the thickness of platy poop)

**emma_421** · 12-10-2007, 12:52 AM

What color is the food that you are feeding them??? Is there anything in there that is orange that they could be picking off? My fish's poop are always the same color as what I have been feeding them, ex. I'm feeding bright green dewormer flakes to them right now, and the poop is green. It's somthing they are eating.

**kurly** · 12-10-2007, 12:53 AM

None of my fish have ever had orange poop so I have no idea as to what that could be. How many fish have you lost in your tank?

**scruffy** · 12-10-2007, 03:29 AM

Have any orange platies come up missing lately?

**emma_421** · 12-10-2007, 04:53 AM

LOL. I have only lost 5 fish so far. I have about 100-150 in that tank (Endler's are very tiny). Everything seems to be going ok now. Something has to be orange or red???

**themusician** · 12-10-2007, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by emma_421

What color is the food that you are feeding them???

I've only fed them regular fish flakes (in typical fish flake colors), anti-parasitic medicine (brown pellets), and garlic (to make the medicine go down better). Nothing that should have caused orange poop.

Originally Posted by kurly

How many fish have you lost in your tank?

So far 2 cories recently, and 3 cories total, and one of my tetras was swimming upside down and gasping on the bottom of the tank last night. I tested my water and couldn't find anything I could do to help, so I went to bed. At the moment I can't find him, but the light is still off.

It's been an ongoing saga though, with my fish all acting sick for no apparent reason that I could find. That went on for the longest time and now in the last week or so, they've all started dying. I'm not expecting 2 of my last 3 cories to make it through the week.

Originally Posted by scruffy

Have any orange platies come up missing lately?

Ha ha. ;-) No, in fact, they're the only ones in the whole tank who don't seem to be sick. Them, and my shrimp (bought 5, all died, one baby mysteriously showed up a week later, and now I suddenly have about 10 wandering my tank).