Trailing Waste

[y020103]

sometimes my tropical fish trail their waste, is this a parasite proplem or something

 

[linda1503]

I don't think so, my platys very often do this and they are quite healthy.

 

[y020103]

cheers they do this sometimes and are healthy to

 

[The-Wolf]

you should never see the fish trail waste; this is undigested food and you are therfore over feeding them.
try feeding every other day to see if that makes a difference, I'm betting it will.

 

[linda1503]

I don't overfeed my fish, but no matter what I do my platys sometimes trail a bit of waste. None of my other fish do this.

 

[koiman121]

I don't overfeed my fish, but no matter what I do my platys sometimes trail a bit of waste. None of my other fish do this.

it is fine if they look healthy

 

[monkeyman]

Some of my fish used to do it to, cant remember which ones, but they did

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

What fish are doing this and how long are their poops roughly?

 

[WILDER]

Plus is it long white and stringy.

 

[monkeyman]

Heres another one... Does anyones fish ever do floating poo??? Mine do sometimes... Wonder why? Just the way it is???

 

[Durbkat]

You mean like after they go to the bathroom the poop floates before it sinks? I suppose its normal since their poop isn't that heavy to automatically fall down to the bottom. When I first got my angels one of them had a bit of trailing poo but that was because I might have put alittle to much food in because I was afraid the tetras were getting most of the food before they could.

 

[y020103]

What fish are doing this and how long are their poops roughly?

mostly they are plattys put only sometimes

 

[y020103]

they do trail waste sometimes after i do water changes

 

[BabySealClubber]

Here is an interesting read on fish poop as an indicator of health.

 

[dwarfgourami]

Here is an interesting read on fish poop as an indicator of health.

That's interesting.