API General Cure - Protein Skimmer?

president89 · Mar 19, 2017

Should I turn off my protein skimmer when using API General cure?

Breakthecycle2 · Mar 19, 2017

Are you dosing in your main tank?

president89 · Mar 19, 2017

Yes - fish only.

Breakthecycle2 · Mar 19, 2017

What do they have?

president89 · Mar 19, 2017

Internal Parasites - White poop and getting skinny. Looking for an answer to the skimmer question. I think it's uncommon to actually dose a tank with a skimmer, so I haven't been able to find info.

Breakthecycle2 · Mar 19, 2017

president89 said:
Internal Parasites - White poop and getting skinny. Looking for an answer to the skimmer question. I think it's uncommon to actually dose a tank with a skimmer, so I haven't been able to find info.

You should shut off the skimmer, but I wouldn't use that for internal parasites. Use metro in food, prazi pro in food or Dr G's medicated foods.

president89 · Mar 19, 2017

Breakthecycle2 said:
You should shut off the skimmer, but I wouldn't use that for internal parasites. Use metro in food, prazi pro in food or Dr G's medicated foods.

API general cure has metro and praziquantel.

Breakthecycle2 · Mar 19, 2017

president89 said:
API general cure has metro and praziquantel.

Well, you aren't giving any details, so it would impossible to know how many fish you need to treat. Treating just water for internal parasites isn't going to work that well either.

president89 · Mar 19, 2017

I would think treating the water would be the best. Fish drink the water they swim in. Medicated food can be very hit or miss.

Humblefish · Mar 19, 2017

@president89 Read this: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/internal-parasites-intestinal-worms.267419/

president89 · Mar 28, 2017

So I dosed the general cure per the directions. Changed water, redosed, changed water again per the instructions. I didn't run carbon to remove. Then I fed the fish some topdressed pellets with metro. Basically NLS pellets, top dressed with seachem metro, seachem focus, with some fish oil to bind it. The fish are still dying. I'm wondering if I over medicated them... This is a clownfish growout with a couple hundred fish.

Humblefish · Mar 28, 2017

@president89 Could there be another disease present? Brook?

president89 · Mar 28, 2017

No visible symptoms...Just getting skinny, rapid breathing and death. I suppose I can. Look closer, but I hadn't seen anything that made me think otherwise.