Flukes?

[jeff williams]

I suspect I’m dealing with gill flukes on my fish and need some advice for treatment in a dt.
I’ve read all the stickies on flukes on this site and other sites I’ve read humblefish link to additional studies and melpyr1985 freshwater dip video trying to come up with a treatment plan.
All my fish have been prophylacticly treated with cu and prazipro at times I used fw dips to treat along with prazipro.
Everything wet that’s gone into my dt has spent 76 days in qt, snails coral rock everything. The only symptom my fish occasionally display is a scratch here and there and yawning. No heavy breathing no gasping at surface etc.
I’ve fw dipped one of my fish to check for flukes ,nothing present. However I’ve read fw dips are ineffective against gill flukes not only that but with them being microscopic one would not expect to see them like melpyr1985 video shows of skin flukes.
I’m planning on treating my whole dt to eliminate the flukes in the water and have come up with two options 1st prazipro this will take two weeks for both treatments and I’ll have to shut down my protein skimmer, also this method was used in qt so I’m not confident it will solve the problem.
2nd hypo for 7 days this requires removal of all coral and inverts and will probably kill off all my microfauna populations. Also the question with this is if fw dips won’t kill gill flukes I’m not to confident 7 days of hypo will either. I’m hoping someone has some suggestions or treatment options. Thanks

 

[JaimeAdams]

Prazi pro. 3 rounds of treatment. You can do it in the DT tank.

 

[HotRocks]

Prazi pro. 3 rounds of treatment. You can do it in the DT tank.

+1 to prazi dosing in DT.

 

[Humblefish]

However I’ve read fw dips are ineffective against gill flukes not only that but with them being microscopic one would not expect to see them like melpyr1985 video shows of skin flukes.

A FW dip is less effective for eliminating gill flukes than body flukes. However, it is still a useful diagnostic tool because some flukes will drop out of the gills & turn white within the 5 minutes. Just not as many as with body flukes. Capsalidae family flukes can be seen with the naked eye, and Neobenedenia (a genus of Capsalidae) is the one most commonly found in the fish we keep. Other families of flukes are considerably smaller, but tiny white specks will still show up during the course of a 5 min FW dip. Using a black bucket aids in seeing them.

 

[jeff williams]

QUOTE="Humblefish, post: 4523568, member: 47652"]A FW dip is less effective for eliminating gill flukes than body flukes. However, it is still a useful diagnostic tool because some flukes will drop out of the gills & turn white within the 5 minutes. Just not as many as with body flukes. Capsalidae family flukes can be seen with the naked eye, and Neobenedenia (a genus of Capsalidae) is the one most commonly found in the fish we keep. Other families of flukes are considerably smaller, but tiny white specks will still show up during the course of a 5 min FW dip. Using a black bucket aids in seeing them.[/QUOTE]
I think I might have found my problem the prazipro that I qt the fish with may be bad. Contacted Hikari for info the requested pics of the product while I’m waiting for them to respond maybe you will know if the product looks bad bottle on the left is one I was using bottle on right was bought one week after the other from the same vendor bottle on right has never been used