Shub with some weird dangly thing.

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Lanksta77
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Shub with some weird dangly thing.

Post by Lanksta77 » Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:33 am

My sister just bought some fish and noticed that one has a strange pink thing hanging from it's rear end. Does anybody know if this is a hernia or a prolapse? :?:

Diana
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Post by Diana » Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:14 am

Could be...
Not a good sign. I would take the fish back.

Red things, small, perhaps several = Camellanus parasites. Very nasty to get rid of.

Small pink blob- Prolapse, or some kind of growth

Long pink single thing- could be poop. It is often colored like whatever the fish ate last. White, stringy poop is suggestive of internal parasites.
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