White Stringy Stuff In Fish Tank

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

My friend fed the fish in my absence but didnt clean the tank once nor did he do a water change. White fungus growing weird looking stuff forming in my tropical freshwater fish tank.

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From what I remember that is fairly normal.

White stringy stuff in fish tank. Regular poop Do any fish look skinny or bloated. This either means that he has been lacking nutrients or worst case its some sort of internal parasite. The driftwood and other ornaments.

We didnt do anything at first because we thought it would just go away but now it is spreading to the fake plants not the real ones. The amonia nitrites etc are 0 or close to it. It could be your bettas bubble nests.

The stuff that you are referring to as white stringy stuff is more than likely some algae. The poo is mostly clear and stringy but it has some pinkish-reddish poop attached to it. If this is not the fishs poop then it is some sort of algae and is most likely completely harmless but definitely annoying to clean up.

Fast forward to day 5today. White Hair Algae is common in new tanks up to a year or so. Fish that stop eating and begin emitting translucent or stringy white faeces can be infected with various parasites.

If you clean it it will probably return until it runs its course. Please help i love my fish. My 10 gallon tank recently within the last week started having this stringy white stuff clinging to first the plants but now everything but the slick rocks.

Clear poo can be the fish hasnt been eating internal parasites. Its not everywhere but theres at least a little of it on every surface. It doesnt last too awfully long though Ken.

I have had a few of the tiny white ones in my tank and they are the lesser of the evils and likely wont take over your entire tank and in my experience dont kill corals. White mold-like coating often isolated to a single ornament especially natural ornaments like driftwood in a freshwater tank This is usually a sign of fungus or decomposition. Just some stuff that removes the chlorine from tap water and supposedly lowers the ammonia levels.

Pick up your snail and feel its bottom side Not really But they are very slimy. Sometimes they leave a slime strail and even less of the time it becomes dislodged and clings to a plant or decoration but they also eat that. Nothing much changed over days 34.

However most of the time the lumpy andor white stringy feces or sometimes even yellow poop in discus fish is a sign of fecal disorders such as internal diseases and in particular parasitic infections. The white clingy stuff is from your snails. I am starting to worry because we have some baby fish in the tank as well as our 9 adults and was wondering if this would be of any harm to them.

Fuzzy white stuff usually grows when aquarium water has excess nutrients. White cotton attached to the pebbles and pool decoration. Fish do a stringy white poop for several reasons.

White spots on the fish fin or tail. In this video we show you how we diagno. The major culprit that falls in this category is an alga called Hair algae and it is an eyesore to many fish enthusiasts in the states.

About a month ago white stringy stuff started growing on the glass of the tank. That being said you could try gluing or epoxying over them to help prevent them from spreading. If its white hair algae it will eventually go away on its own.

If the slime is translucent in appearance it is more likely to be a fungal growth. It looks like Spirogyra which is a of an algae the problem with it is that it will take control in optimal plant growing conditions so it can be hard to exterminate cut your lighting to 6 hours a day for a while and see if that helps I have just taken control of a spiro problem in one of my tanks and cutting the light has helped the most high tech tank ei fertilising Ive read algaefix will smash it without melting any. Its been set up for almost a year and suddenly I am seeing this white web-like stuff all over the gravel and some on the glass of the tank.

Long stringy white poo can be constipation bacterial infections internal parasites. Mine used to do it all the time. The small plant in the picture below was flourishing until this stuff started appearing now all my new growths are starting to wilt and melt away.

This could easily happen if you gave the growing nitrogen cycle too much fish food. I believe the technical term for fuzzy white stuff is fuzzamus. Apart from the obvious signs of white fuzzy stuff white stringy stuff in your aquarium where are other signs you can look out for which include.

They arent floating around or stuck to the gravel in the tank. Before adding fish test the water to verify zero ammonia and nitrite and a nitrate level below 40 ppm. Anyways on day two the water got a bit cloudy.

If so clearwhite poop is a sign that they are lacking nutrients which is apparently by the lack of coloration. Its a 4 gallon tank with a filter some java moss and a few other plants a bunch of snails unfortunately and one betta fish. Almost looks like cobwebs in the water.

Most likely its a specific type of algae that is famous for blooming in tanks that lack any competitors against such algal blooms. My Bettas fish tank has got white floaty things in it its sort of like someone has spat in it but its everywere also i have a plastic rock for him to hide in and that is coverd in the white alge looking stuff i have put clornater in the tank this is a new tank and a new fish. I returned to find white cotton-like strands growing on the glass and covering most parts of the gravel and some parts of the filter system.

1 internal bacterial infection causes the fish to stop eating swell up like a balloon breath heavily at surface or near a filter outlet do stringy white poop and die within 24-48 hours of showing these symptoms. I dont know why this stuff is in my aquarium now but I sure would l. First of all if anyone could just identify the stuff.

White feces in fish also called white stringy poop is a fairly common symptom in both freshwater and marine aquarium fish which not always accompanies a certain disease. I wake up and all of the plants are completely covered in this white stringy stuff. For good measure you may also want to do a 20 percent water change.

Lighting was turned on around 12pm and turned off at 3am. He fed the fish as I asked but I think he may have overfed them.

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