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03-28-2008, 06:45 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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White strings coming out of Betta's anus
One of my bettas show some white strings coming out of its anus. I took the betta out and pull the strings off its anus. That things actually move! I've searched all over but found no answer. I fed the bettas blackworms a few days earlier. This is the first time i face this problem. Could it be the food that caused this?
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03-28-2008, 11:55 AM
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Fishy Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: USA
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could it be some parasite or something?
it could be from the food, I've heard of that happening before.
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03-28-2008, 02:29 PM
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i might be wrong but this happend to me before.i think the strings were part of the worms that passed threw.
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03-28-2008, 03:12 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Yes, this sounds like some kind of parasite that the blackworms were carrying. This is why I've always avoided live food, I don't want my fish infested with parasites :\
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03-28-2008, 08:44 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 66
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some people told me that those white things hanging off of the fish anus actually are internal tapeworms...urgg. I guess "prazi pro" would fix it.
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03-28-2008, 09:38 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Johns Creek, GA
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That sucks. Someone was telling me he stopped feeding daphnia, because his fish got worms. I thought blackworms were supposed to be good. My little daphnia are gone, but my big ones (daphnia magna) are hanging in there. Are you coming to the April meeting?
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03-30-2008, 03:38 PM
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There's a meeting on April?
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03-30-2008, 03:43 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Johns Creek, GA
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This Thusday. Talk is dwarf pikes.
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03-30-2008, 07:15 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 66
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That's nice. You coming Elaine? I've never raise this specie before. probably will be interesting.
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03-30-2008, 09:50 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Johns Creek, GA
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Thinking about coming. There's a concert that night too. But I think I should spread this stuff around, so that if I kill it I can get it back. I got it at an auction and have been feeding it soy flour. So far so good, but I don't harvest much. I was hoping the little ones would come back when it got warmer, but so far all i'm culturing is green water.
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04-03-2008, 03:58 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Philippines
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haha thats an internal parasite and there is no way you can heal it now that your betta is in bad shape :/
add salt like half table spoon then add rid all 1/2 table spoon, then water change after 3 days, dont feed, feed every after 2 days.
the thing is that the parasite came from live feeds that means your stupid worm did the parasite to your betta.
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