Chloroquine Phosphate + General Cure

[Badguy]

any update ?

 

[Elgringodiablo]

any update ?

Still alive, but pretty doubtful about recovery. Ending the Fenbenzadole treatment today and leaving it in Nitrofuracin Green. Going to try hand feeding it in a minute. At this point I think starvation is the most likely outcome if I can’t get it eating.

 

[Badguy]

Still alive, but pretty doubtful about recovery. Ending the Fenbenzadole treatment today and leaving it in Nitrofuracin Green. Going to try hand feeding it in a minute. At this point I think starvation is the most likely outcome if I can’t get it eating.

Have you tried Clams or Black worms ?

 

[Elgringodiablo]

Have you tried Clams or Black worms ?

Fish is laying on it’s side breathing heavy. I put a clam immediately in front of it’s mouth but I don’t think it’s going to eat. Used tweezers to put a jumbo mysis right by it’s mouth and it gimpishly swam away. Feeding tube might be an option. Hope to hear back from the vet tomorrow.

 

[Badguy]

Fish is laying on it’s side breathing heavy. I put a clam immediately in front of it’s mouth but I don’t think it’s going to eat. Used tweezers to put a jumbo mysis right by it’s mouth and it gimpishly swam away. Feeding tube might be an option. Hope to hear back from the vet tomorrow.

Hope you know that all the effort that you are putting into this is not going to waste .its a lot of good info for future reefers .keep your head up .

 

[Elgringodiablo]

Hope you know that all the effort that you are putting into this is not going to waste .its a lot of good info for future reefers .keep your head up .

Thanks! Appreciate it! Hope I can save the fish too!

 

[Elgringodiablo]

Took my fish to the vet in Long Beach. Did x-ray and found the swim bladder to look deflated but not totally. Fed the fish using a tube, gave it an antibiotic injection and steroid injection. Took home about 2 weeks of antibiotic injections. Said it’s probably a swim bladder infection, possibly related to decompression. Otherwise fish looks healthy.

 

[Badguy]

Took my fish to the vet in Long Beach. Did x-ray and found the swim bladder to look deflated but not totally. Fed the fish using a tube, gave it an antibiotic injection and steroid injection. Took home about 2 weeks of antibiotic injections. Said it’s probably a swim bladder infection, possibly related to decompression. Otherwise fish looks healthy.

Great News!!! If you do Tube Feed again ,would you mind documenting it ?

 

[Humblefish]

Took my fish to the vet in Long Beach. Did x-ray and found the swim bladder to look deflated but not totally. Fed the fish using a tube, gave it an antibiotic injection and steroid injection. Took home about 2 weeks of antibiotic injections. Said it’s probably a swim bladder infection, possibly related to decompression. Otherwise fish looks healthy.

That's good news! Which antibiotic did they give you for the swim bladder infection??

 

[Elgringodiablo]

Great News!!! If you do Tube Feed again ,would you mind documenting it ?

The vet sedated it and used a red rubber tube on a syringe. I don’t plan to attempt myself unless it’s still not eating a week from now.

 

[Elgringodiablo]

That's good news! Which antibiotic did they give you for the swim bladder infection??

Not great news, as recovery from negative buoyancy swim bladder disease is pretty unlikely. Worth a try though. I will shoot him a note and ask what antibiotic. He told me but I forgot. Gave me preloaded syringes, so no bottle.

 

[Elgringodiablo]

That's good news! Which antibiotic did they give you for the swim bladder infection??

Enrofloxacin was the injectable antibiotic we are trying.

 

[ryan quave]

I've been giving my foxface a feeding tube the last two days.... it is unnerving as can be shoving a tube down his throat but my guy is starting to look a little better and is starting to swim vs just kinda of chilling in the water. I mixed in some GC powder into his food and that seems to be helping clean him out.

Good luck and know you did more then 99.99% of reefers would have done for this fish.

 

[Elgringodiablo]

I've been giving my foxface a feeding tube the last two days.... it is unnerving as can be shoving a tube down his throat but my guy is starting to look a little better and is starting to swim vs just kinda of chilling in the water. I mixed in some GC powder into his food and that seems to be helping clean him out.

Good luck and know you did more then 99.99% of reefers would have done for this fish.

Swim bladder issue or just internal parasites? Are you using MS-222 to sedate? I am scared to even touch my foxface, I hear that sting is pretty gnarly.

 

[ryan quave]

Swim bladder issue or just internal parasites? Are you using MS-222 to sedate? I am scared to even touch my foxface, I hear that sting is pretty gnarly.

Idk something been off with it the 3 weeks i have had him, never eating nor swimming much. Never seen it poop till last night had a really long stringy poop. So apparently gc dosed in the water didn't do anything compared to gut loading him.
Im uesing some clove oil knocks him out good along with a feeding tube for premature babies.

Its a bit hard to see how skinny it is in pic's.

 

[Badguy]

Idk something been off with it the 3 weeks i have had him, never eating nor swimming much. Never seen it poop till last night had a really long stringy poop. So apparently gc dosed in the water didn't do anything compared to gut loading him.
Im uesing some clove oil knocks him out good along with a feeding tube for premature babies.

Its a bit hard to see how skinny it is in pic's.

Thank you so much for the pictures ! How did you figure out the depth to go into without rupturing the stomach ?

 

[Elgringodiablo]

Idk something been off with it the 3 weeks i have had him, never eating nor swimming much. Never seen it poop till last night had a really long stringy poop. So apparently gc dosed in the water didn't do anything compared to gut loading him.
Im uesing some clove oil knocks him out good along with a feeding tube for premature babies.

Its a bit hard to see how skinny it is in pic's.

Is he staying afloat or laying? I wouldn't expect a swim bladder issue with a foxface, since they aren't deepwater.

When my vet did it he had like these red rubber catheters that you could just connect to a syringe. Very similar concept.

 

[Elgringodiablo]

Thank you so much for the pictures ! How did you figure out the depth to go into without rupturing the stomach ?

I think you just need to make sure you get well past the gills so they don't choke, but I am not positive, maybe 2.5" on my 6.5" fish.

 

[Elgringodiablo]

On a side note, my vet was pretty confident that most if not all fish will be fine in NFG for up to 30 days and had no concerns about me combining it with Fenbedazole.

 

[Humblefish]

On a side note, my vet was pretty confident that most if not all fish will be fine in NFG for up to 30 days and had no concerns about me combining it with Fenbedazole.

Did he/she provide a dosage for fenbendazole? I've been treating @ 2 mg/L, but was wondering if it would be safe to go higher.