hey, i dont claim to be any kind of expert but, that being said i have three alligator snapping turtles and all three of them got these "white stringy things" that you are describing and when they got them, i thought ahh crap my turtles have worms. so i treated them for worms and they cleared up in about a week. a few weeks later my buddys snapper also started excreating the same white string like feces so i treated his turtle with the same effect. both of us, him and i were at the time feeding our snappers with feeder goldfish. now i know what you will all be thinking right now... (what a dumbass! doesnt he know that goldfish are bad for snappers?!) and rightfully so, that was over a year ago and i had just gotten into the alligator snappers so i was semi oblivious to the do's and dont's of keeping them. upon further research i discovered that it was a commonly accepted fact that feeding feeder goldfish to your snappers is a bad idea due to the fact that the goldfish are treated with copper sulfate to make them more "gold" at the stores and the copper will build up to toxic levels in your snapper causing sometimes sudden and seemingly unexplainable death. so i found that out and stopped feeding ALL of my turtles gold fish. since i stopped feeding goldfish i have had no more problems with these "worms" weather or not thats what they were i guess i will never know for shure but, i do know that worms can and do often live in the stomaches of goldfish so i just dont deal with them any more. i hope that this helps you in some way. and good luck with you new hypo, you should post some pictures up here soon.

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