red poop

[LoaderLady]

I have 2 demekins (calico) I just brought home on Thursday. They are quite
young, I would say, and are about 1" in length, with nice long fins. They
are in my 5g tank for quarantine at the moment. When I did a water
change/gravel cleaning this morning, I noticed red, slightly stringy poop.
Is this from the change in water/food? I am feeding Medigold to a sick
Oranda at the moment. Should I give some to the demekins as well? They are
active, but do like to stay at the bottom of the tank and rarely rise above
1/2 way up.

Thanks,
Tammy

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what color is the food?

"LoaderLady" > wrote:

>I have 2 demekins (calico) I just brought home on Thursday. They are quite
>young, I would say, and are about 1" in length, with nice long fins. They
>are in my 5g tank for quarantine at the moment. When I did a water
>change/gravel cleaning this morning, I noticed red, slightly stringy poop.
>Is this from the change in water/food? I am feeding Medigold to a sick
>Oranda at the moment. Should I give some to the demekins as well? They are
>active, but do like to stay at the bottom of the tank and rarely rise above
>1/2 way up.
>
>Thanks,
>Tammy
>



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[LoaderLady]

Not red. They have been eating flakes, peas and gel food since I brought
them home, but I don't know what they were eating before that. I do know
they had cucumber and lettuce in the tank. On the same diet, I rarely see
poop in my other tanks. I noticed the panda Oranda I got has the same thing
(red poop). He's in a different tank but on the same diet.

I put them on the Medigold anyways, so we'll see if that makes a difference.

Tammy

> wrote in message
...
> what color is the food?
>
> "LoaderLady" > wrote:
>
> >I have 2 demekins (calico) I just brought home on Thursday. They are
quite
> >young, I would say, and are about 1" in length, with nice long fins.
They
> >are in my 5g tank for quarantine at the moment. When I did a water
> >change/gravel cleaning this morning, I noticed red, slightly stringy
poop.
> >Is this from the change in water/food? I am feeding Medigold to a sick
> >Oranda at the moment. Should I give some to the demekins as well? They
are
> >active, but do like to stay at the bottom of the tank and rarely rise
above
> >1/2 way up.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Tammy
> >
>
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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> http://puregold.aquaria.net/
> www.drsolo.com
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> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other
> compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the
> endorsements or recommendations I make.

[Geezer From The Freezer]

I feed red/brown pellets to my fish sometimes - this makes
their poop a clayish reddish colour.

[LoaderLady]

I guess it is just from whatever they were eating before. I've put them all
on Medigold anyways. I have an Oranda on it, and will have tons left over,
so I may as well use it. If anyone in Canada needs some Medigold, let me
know and I'll figure out a way to send you some for a few bucks. I'll never
use all I have, and it will go bad before I need it again...

Tammy

"Geezer From The Freezer" > wrote in message
...
>
> I feed red/brown pellets to my fish sometimes - this makes
> their poop a clayish reddish colour.

[Mick Manford]

Mebbe the place you bought them from fed them on bloodworm. My fish
sometimes do alarming poops like that after they get live bloodworm or
the Delica gel stuff.