Help needed badly Lion fish sick

[sal16cal1]

I am so confused I’ve never treated for flukes before. I had freshwater fish for 10 years so I have experience. I started prazipro Monday. He wasn’t eating until I put a drop of garlic on the krill this morning.

i am going crazy any help would be much appreciated

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

I don't see direct evidence of flukes here. I do see mucus and some spots that could be ich.

More background information is needed, this post explains that:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/s...sease-treatment-and-diagnosis-section.775547/


Jay

 

[Cell]

@lion king

 

[vetteguy53081]

Agree that ich is more prevalent than flukes which are susceptible to. Flukes offer typical signs which you did not note seeing any such as becoming lethargic, swimming near the water surface, developed clamped fins, hiding in the corner of the tank or behind rocks, lose their appetite, shake their head, flash, or scratch. They may also express what looks like yawning.

 

[lion king]

He looks thin and krill is a poor choice in food. Healthy lions will be resistant to protazoan diseases and if attacked will shed and slough it off. Most will not follow my advice although it can be successful, and those that don't, then the lion always die. He would need to be a tank with optimum water quality, nitrates lower than 30ppm, cleaner even better, and obviously other parameters 0. Feed him live food, preferably mollies and many times a lion will pull through from a protazoan attack. Flukes would be easily treated with prazi pro, but until you give us more info we can only guess.

 

[sal16cal1]

He looks thin and krill is a poor choice in food. Healthy lions will be resistant to protazoan diseases and if attacked will shed and slough it off. Most will not follow my advice although it can be successful, and those that don't, then the lion always die. He would need to be a tank with optimum water quality, nitrates lower than 30ppm, cleaner even better, and obviously other parameters 0. Feed him live food, preferably mollies and many times a lion will pull through from a protazoan attack. Flukes would be easily treated with prazi pro, but until you give us more info we can only guess.

Is shrimp clams squid ok? Or molies are just the best.

 

[lion king]

Is shrimp clams squid ok? Or molies are just the best.

So it's been a year since your initial post, so I take it he recovered and is doing well. While there is good argument for including live food, volitans usually will accept a variety of dead food that will be healthy choices and provide a long captive life. I will include a thread I wrote on dead foods as well as a new thread I wrote today on live foods.

Lion King's dead food recommendations

I'm a health nut if you haven't noticed, this also translates to my pets. Today I will cover some of the dead foods I feed and why, with some nutritional info that I recall off the top of my head. This is by no means all the foods you can feed, these are just the ones I include in my feedings...

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WARNING! live food

You must know the source of any live food you are feeding to your predators. If you know me, you know I am an advocate of live feeding to many predators. I have my 1st rule of no marine fish or inverts keep in systems with fish unless, you yourself have qt'd them without any chemicals other than...

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