Fish parasites and worms

[DraggingTail]

What is the best treatment for worms?

 

[JasonK84]

Praziquantel IMO in a QT tank

 

[Maritimer]

External worms, or internal?

If you're looking at skin or gill flukes, then yeah - Praziquantel in the water column is the way to go.

If you're dealing with internal parasites, I prefer API's "General Cure", which is Praziquantel and Metronidazole in powdered form. You can use it 1/1 with Seachem's "Focus" product (use the little spoon that comes in the tube of Focus) in about a tablespoon of frozen food. That gets the medicine inside the fish, where it'll do some good. The Praziquantel takes on any wormy parasites, while the Metro tackles the flagellates and protozoans.

~Bruce

 

[DraggingTail]

External worms, or internal?

If you're looking at skin or gill flukes, then yeah - Praziquantel in the water column is the way to go.

If you're dealing with internal parasites, I prefer API's "General Cure", which is Praziquantel and Metronidazole in powdered form. You can use it 1/1 with Seachem's "Focus" product (use the little spoon that comes in the tube of Focus) in about a tablespoon of frozen food. That gets the medicine inside the fish, where it'll do some good. The Praziquantel takes on any wormy parasites, while the Metro tackles the flagellates and protozoans.

~Bruce

Is this coral and invert safe?

 

[Maritimer]

Praziquantel (Prazi-Pro) in the water column is considered "mostly" reef-safe, though can put ornamental worms & bristle worms at risk.

General Cure bound to food with Focus is pretty safe - when I feed it to new arrivals, the fish in my display get it as well. Try not to let it fall directly onto corals, but if they catch a bit of it, it should be OK.

~Bruce