Worm coming out my Platys nose

Colin_T said:

Hi and welcome to the forum

Can you post some pictures that are in focus and clearly show the alleged worm?

Fish don't get worms coming out of their nose.

The only thing I can see on the fish appears to be a bit of excess mucous on the face. This is normally caused by poor water quality, a dirty tank, or something in the water irritating the fish.

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DO NOT use anti-biotics on any animal, bird or fish unless it has a known bacterial infection that has not responded to normal treatments. Improper use and mis-use of anti-biotics has lead to drug resistant bacteria that kill people, animals, birds, fish and reptiles.

Anti-biotics do nothing to parasitic worms, yeast, viruses or fungus.

Anti-biotics only kill bacteria and even then, there are 2 main types of bacteria, gram negative and gram positive bacteria. As a general rule, medications that treat gram negative bacteria do nothing to gram positive bacteria and vice versa.

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Test your tank water for ammonia because that will cause excess mucous.

Get your nitrite down to 0 because also causes excess mucous.

You might find that when the water has 0 ammonia and 0 nitrite, the white bit clears up by itself.

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