May be an intestinal worm. You can treat fish with general cure which contains Metroplex and should be effective with the fish and any internal parasites in the feces and stomach lining
Thanks. The concerning thing is this is a prequarantined fish and supposedly treated for everything.
Sadly it has others issues too. Bacterial tufts and what my be uronema.
Which is why I often tell many, even when the fish is quarantined at a facility, it goes through stress from transport, acclimation, etc and assume it has something a do a mini quarantine 14-21 days as a method of insurance on fish's healthThanks. The concerning thing is this is a prequarantined fish and supposedly treated for everything.
Yes,I agree and thankfully I do follow this protocol.
I see two eyespots. Could be a turbellarian worm. Some of those are not parasitic. Did these feces rest on the tank bottom before you collected them? It could just be a free living worm.
I had just put it in a melafix bath for its other issues so it was a clean 5 gallon tank. Fish went almost immediately and I sucked it out with a pipette but it was on the bottom of tank for a few seconds.
O.K., I don’t know of any turbellarians that infect fish digestive systems, but the group is large, so there may well be some that do. Praziquantel is often suggested to treat external turbellarians, but I’m not sure that is effective.
