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    Default Should I be concerned? Long stringy poop

    I found a piece of long brown stringy poop caught on a driftwood branch. Does one of my fish have a parasite? I feed them Al's FDBW and Hikari frozen bloodworms amd brine shrimp, and PE mysis shrimp. The tank is 75 gallons with daily water changes between 70% to 90%.
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    Default Re: Should I be concerned? Long stringy poop

    Scott,

    Do you see any white in it or like casing or lining? I mean it doesn't look so bad to me from what I can see. Is the fish exhibiting any other signs or off behavior? Is it eating?

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    Default Re: Should I be concerned? Long stringy poop

    It all brown. Im not sure which of the seven it came from but all are acting fine and eating.

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    Default Re: Should I be concerned? Long stringy poop

    I am no poop forensic guy, but I always felt that white or weird poop was what to look for, the stringy bit would bother me a tad.

    Being totally honest, I'll also be piggy backing these responses as one of my wilds exhibited some similar feces recently. It was after I finished a GC treatment and I chalked it up to that, but who knows!

    Sounds like you are doing all things well, I'd take a wait and see approach, if you really wanted to or felt you needed something, you could try some salt to cleanse and get the guts cleaned out a bit, can never really go wrong or cause much issues with salt.

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