Bristlenose Pleco - White Poo

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Kinggyking

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PLEASE HELP ME!!

As you know i am new to keeping fish, i recently added two brittleness Pleco's.

One of them seems to always have long white poo coming from underneath. I went back to the aquatics and they said it might be Anchor Worm and gave me some White Spot & Parasite trestmentm but i am reluctant to use yet as i'm not sure if this is right?

I have posted a picture to show what i mean, any ideas of what it is and how to treat would be very much welcome.

Thank you.

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I have never kept Bristlenose Pleco in my tanks so unfortunately I can't comment on this. Did you recently introduce something new to their diet?
 
jpappy789

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I believe that generally you are able to actually see anchor worms with the naked eye. I would doubt that's the cause if you cannot see any attached...

Oftentimes people will point to that as a symptom of internal parasites, which I guess it could be...any other weird activity? How is your water quality?
 
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Hi Jpappy,

Thanks for the reply, was beginning to think no one uses these forums lol......

From my knowledge i think he is acting ok, he' somewhat chunkier than the other Pleco i brought with him, but he could be older i guess.

I tested the water this morning with Tetra 6 in 1 test stick and all seems ok just slightly high KH levels, so ill do a 10% change twice this week. I can see that there are lots of long white droppings with in the tank from where he has been releasing.

I have got some of this http://www.petsathome.com/shop/en/pets/love-fish-white-spot-treatment should i treat the tank with this just in case?

Many thanks
 
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Does the bottle list the active ingredient(s)? I probably wouldn't start dosing until absolutely sure the medication would work for what the problem is...

I'd highly recommend getting a liquid test kit though. Test strips are, at best, finicky and just not very reliable. Also, we tend to prefer responses with exact numbers (e.g. ammonia=0, nitrite=0, nitrate=10, etc.) rather than "good" or "ok", which are subjective.
 
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