gass coming from fish

jonny p

jonny p

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Dec 6, 2004
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last night i noticed a gray fluid come from one of my males swordtails, it looked like a puff of smoke it was gone after a second,

does it sound familiar to anyone?

i kept my eye on him and it didnt happen again,
could it be he was chewing on a bit of my pleco algae tablet?

edit well not really a puff of smoke more of an ooozing effect, it appeared to come from hiss gills
 
If food was in the tank, it's likely that the fish ate some of it, and then ejected the rest through it's gills.
 
I see this with my Silver mollies. They ingest floating fish poop....yeeeeeeeech!, and they apparently sift it for undigested food. All the sifted fish poop gets ejected out through their gills and has a cloudy appearance.

I'd just like to take this opportunity to state I'm grateful not to be a fish! :laugh:
 
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