Baby Oscar, gasping, stringy poo

[Henry Weldon]

I have a 125 gallon with 2 Oscars, 3 yellow labs, a red tail shark, and pleco. All very small. They all are doing great except for 1 of the oscars. White stringy poo pretty much hanging their 100% of the time. General malaise, shows interest in food, but will not eat. Gasping for air. No other external indicators that anything is wrong.

In the past when I saw symptoms like this, I could treat them with API General Cure and everyone was happy in a day or so. Not this time. Been a few days and not getting better or worse. Not sure what to try.

 

[Kyshiara]

What to do if your fish has Stringy White Poop.

Fish do a stringy white poop for several reasons. 1) Internal Bacterial Infections causes the fish to stop eating, swell up like a balloon, breath heavily at the surface or near a filter outlet, do stringy white poop, and die within 24-48 hours of showing these symptoms. This cannot normally be...

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[Colin_T]

Internal bacterial infection or organ failure. Not much you can do once they stop eating and start gasping. Euthanise the fish because it's dying.