Help identifying possible flukes

[Alek]

hello I have 2 misbar ocellaris clowns in QT right now... they have been treated with prazi twice and have been in the therapeutic range of cupramine for about 10 days. Today I noticed a few small patches of a white film or something on the female. I am not sure it it is flukes or something else. Any help would be appreciated.. they are both eating but not aggressively

 

[Dierker0000]

Not sure but could it be Brook?

 

[ScottR]

Not sure but could it be Brook?

Doesn't look like brook. Fish start shaving their mucus off with brook. And they die pretty fast. If I had to guess, I’d say ich. If you suspect flukes, you could freshwater dip and they should come right off.

Looks like you’ve already got them in QT! Good luck!

 

[ckalupa]

Check for flukes in a freshwater dip. It’s possible you have prazi resistant flukes. They seem to be getting more common.

 

[Alek]

I took the advice and did the fw dip. Lots of flukes fell off. I was surprised because I had treated with prazi. Now am doing hypo and thing seem to have cleared up almost overnight

 

[Alek]

Hopefully the hypo will take care of any possible inch that was around as well. Goes to show how important quarantine is for all new fish

 

[Alek]

I have heard of a lot of people experiencing prazi resistant flukes after some research. So I am going to have to re think my standard QT procedure. Thanks for all the timely responses

 

[Mjrenz]

I just happened upon your thread and just wanted to make sure that you weren't also doing the copper with hypo because the two treatments aren't safe to do together.

I am also dealing with Prazi resistant flukes I used hypo for one fish and fenbendazole for the other ones. Good luck!

 

[Alek]

I am not currently running copper. I did not know it was dangerous to do both. thanks for looking for me

 

[ckalupa]

Very important to remember: when you are starting to increase the salinity when your treatment time ends you want to do that very slowly. When I come out of Hypo I only increase .003 per day. Very easy. Don’t rush as going up is harder on the fish than coming down.