Intestinal Worms

[djmatthewblack]

I've got a female who is very pregnant.  On her backside there is these two reddish points, pointing off her.  Very hard to describe right?

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At first it was just one point pinky thing and I thought maybe she was just poopin a red flake, but now that it is Y'ed off and I am seeing it better I think it isn't poop.
Like would it be two tails from babies or something?  Usually babies come out face first er....I really have no idea what it is.  

There is 4 females and one male in the tank and she was chasing the other females around, so I thought I would let her chill in the breeding box for a while but I won't keep her there very long if she isn't giving birth.  Anyone know what this is?

Nevermind, she went number two.  It looks like she might have eaten a fry, so I wasn't entirely off.

[guppymax]

Re: Female Guppy Anatomy

When guppies eat a lot of fry it can lower the pH and kill a lot of fish. Dark colored feces is a clue. Normally this only happens in softer rain or RO water or in other cities, not Houston where the water is soft.

max

[Mzungu]

Re: Female Guppy Anatomy

Let us know if this happens again. Camallanus worms look like this, too.

[djmatthewblack]

Re: Female Guppy Anatomy

What happened is in my large tank I have one-two month old fry and I saw one of them almost get picked off by my angel fish.  I put him in the 20 gallon cause it has plastic breeding grass on the back wall.  That is the last I saw of the little guy.  I had put some 6 or 7 fry in there a week or so back when I was trying to treat my multi colored male and all of them got eaten.  I've got two females ready to drop any day and so I am trying to look really closely to tell when they start giving birth cause by the way things have been going it seems like they might eat all the babies, so I want to get them in a breeding box before that happens and the fry into their own tank.  

Ah well, the babies will come soon enough. :)

[villa1973]

Re: Female Guppy Anatomy

well for my point of view those little things a very common parasites coming out of the intestines.
but we will see. good luck with thAT.

[djmatthewblack]

Re: Female Guppy Anatomy

It really doesn't look like a parasite.  This is the largest female guppy I have seen.  She has these dark bands that *sometimes* are there that go across her eyes.  Other than that the guppy has no color.  They look really cool when they are there, makes her look like a warrior.

But I have another guppy that is about to bust from babies.  If I look, and without being to graphic here,....ah screw it, like I can see her anus and I am guessing that the birthing canal would be above that further back on her body?  I haven't seen a live birth in my tank and I would like to so I can predict when is a good time to put the female in a breeding box.  The large female with the dark eye bands was able to give birth and between her and the other guppies I yielded zero babies (I assume they were gobbled).  I never saw them.  And I have one of those grass mats on the bottom of my tank for infants to hide in.

Ah well, I am getting bored with guppies anyway and I know someone that can get me some endlers.

[djmatthewblack]

Re: Female Guppy Anatomy

Man, I hate it how you guys are always right. (I don't hate it thanks, but I didn't want my fish to have worms)  How do I go about getting rid of them?

[villa1973]

Re: Intestinal Worms

well my friend, you should use a aniparasite medicine i personally use
parasite clear , for jungle labs.
you can buy it in walmart for like 3 bucks,and it comes in tablets .
like 8 in a package, use one tablet for every ten gallons,and do a 25 water change a day or so after.
repeat treatment if neccesary.
i hope its not too late.