White poop = Parasites?

I noticed a couple of my black neon tetras having poop that looks like a bit of white cotton thread.




Sorry cannot get better picture on my phone at the minute.

The fish seem to be active and feeding. Water levels are OK (zero ammonia / nitrites and <20 nitrates). Tomorrow is water change and maintenance day. They have been fasted for two days as I think I was overfeeding.

Do I need to treat and with what? I don't actually have a quarantine tank yet as that was next month's task

I have also read about feeding garlic? Are we talking literally putting some flakes in some water and crushing garlic into that?

 

Personally I think you're mixing the white edge of the fin up with poohh.
This fish looks very healthy to me.

 

Personally I think you're mixing the white edge of the fin up with poohh.
This fish looks very healthy to me.

They do look healthy but photo does not really show poop too well ( small fish never stay still long enough to get a decent photo)...

Definitely poop as gets to a few cm then drops off.

 

Ok, watching on my cellphone. What do you feed?

 

Sorry was away yesterday and only just saw this. I am going to try and get a picture later today but so far have not seen any white poop (guess it is more likely after I feed them later).

In terms of feeding they mainly get tetra min flakes, tetra min pro crisps with mixed frozen food once a week (blood worms mainly go to corys but is one of daphnia/moina, brineshrinp or tubifex they get) and crushed peas once a week.

I guess the question is whether white cotton like poop is always something serious and what other symptoms should I look out for to identify what it is?

 

First time I have managed to spot it and get a pic

 

Ok, then it's pooh should be reddish to me.
It definitely doesn't look ill.
You could worm your fish.