Sounds like its intimidated by the puffer. I would make sure to add a lot of food at once on opposite ends so it doesnt feel threatened. Although that does seem odd. I would also try adding a few clams on the half shell on opposite sides of the tank. Both to see if it eats it and to distract the puffer when feeding.
Have you seen any white, stringy poop? Is the stomach thin/pinched? Any other symptoms?
Hehe that’s funny to imagine my puffer as intimidating. It’s actually quite shy and spends most of its time being fat, lazy, and lounging about somewhere. But I’ve heard angels like clams (as will my trigger, wrasse, and puffer), so I’ll give those a try.
No stringy, white poop. Stomach’s actually quite round and full. Yes there’s head twitching and some scratching. Another thing I’ve noticed is that there’s some discoloration on one of its gill covers. I’ll get some pics when I can. I’ve dosed the DT with General Cure just in case of internal parasites.
In the main tank? General Cure contains metro and prazi, prazi is "reef safe" but metro is not.
My DT(main) is FOWLR, which is why I thought General Cure can be aptly used.
Metro probably didn't do anything in that case, other than potentially kill off some of the "live" in the live rock. Chances are it was absorbed quickly. I highly recommend using Prazi next time. General Cure contains less prazi, so for flukes it is typically less effective, anyhow.
Fortunately, I have some leftover Prazipro leftover so I’ll try using just that in the DT. So you’re suggesting that metro (in GC) isn’t useful in my case b/c there’s no indication of intestinal parasites?
My juvenile Queen has been living with a much larger Niger trigger without being intimidated by it. In fact, the Queen has been known to pick fights and can hold its own against bigger tankmatesMany years ago I had a queen that grew very large and I went through several clown triggers because when they would get large the queen would stop eating so I would trade it off for a small one, and then it would grow large and same thing. I went through three clown triggers
Metro in the water column isn’t very useful for treating internal parasites but particularly in the case of a display tank— antibiotics are absorbed/removed by just about everything.
Would it be OK to use General Cure and Prazipro at the same time, or is there a risk of overdosing?
There’s no point in doing so as it’s redundant if you wish to use more Prazi you can dose more, a double dose is often used for stubborn flukes.
Instead of using metro for treating internal parasites, is there something else I can use that’s “reef-safe” and won’t get absorbed/removed?
