Gold Fish Shtis WHITE?

Question

Hi,

I have a gildfish tank. For past few days my gold fish **** is white in colour. Earlier it used to be some what black lol. DO any one know is this a disease or some problem ?

Thanks.

Hi,

They have been pretty slow and some times lie at one place and acts liek they gonna die. I think its ome kind of infection also my fish my gold fishes has started getting some black spots and blck moore is getting big white sopts near the tail area. I searched on the net and foun out that it was due to http://www.goldfishinfo.com/general.htm#migration

Can any one tell me how to cure this as cannot find a good suitabe cure for that too.

Thanks.

Answer 1

It depends.

their GI tract secretes mucus that forms a casing around their poop. if you're not feeding much and it's just the mucus casing, that's ok. tho if your tank is cycled, I'd feed more and add fresh foods to their diet. Here's a good article on goldfish nutrition.
http://thegab.org/Articles/GoldfishNutrition1.html

If it has white spiral looking stuff inside, it's eggs being expelled.

If looks like white goo inside, I'd start medicated food. Here's a recipe for medicated gel food.
http://thegab.org/Articles/MedicatedGelFood.html
and an article on medicated food
http://thegab.org/Articles/MedicatedFood.html

Could also be internal parasites.

How's he acting otherwise?

Answer 2

If there is a zigzag or spiral-shaped "center" to the poop, it is reabosrbed eggs. When female goldfish don't lay eggs, they reabsorb and poop them out. Usually it's very long and sticky. If it is white and stringy and doesn't have any heft to it, your fish is probably sick with an internal infection. Parasitic or bacterial is hard to say without knowing other symptoms. Hopefully it is just eggs.

Answer 3

You need to improve your water quality drastically. Change 50% of the water now, don't feed them for two days, and on the third day change 50% of the water again. Add some salt for freshwater fish (one level teaspoon/gallon to all water added to your tank) to help keep them from getting truly sick, and feed them the inside of a pea, cut up into bite sized pieces once a week to prevent swim bladder problems.
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Answer 4

in maximum circumstances white spots on a fish is ich ( additionally time-honored as white spot ailment) this is a parasite. copper is the main useful way of treating it yet once you have any invertebrates in the tank or you're making plans to sooner or later you mustn't use copper.

Answer 5

I've had fish do that, I was told by some that it was an internal parasite, but the fish ended up living for a couple years. Try searching or asking here:

http://www.aquariacentral.com/

And here's posts regarding that:

http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84526&highlight=white+poop

http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84231&highlight=white+poop

Answer 6

thats gross..its gotta be something in his food..look up goldfish on the internet and see if you can find out exactly what causes it.

Answer 7

its completely normal..... when u eat food it digests differently makin it... ya know different colors