Rattzreef
Active Member
I am wondering how long CG+focus can take to properly treat for intestinal worms? I have four fish in my DT currently that I treated for 14 days with medication soaked mysis to treat for what I can only determine are a form of nematode. (They are small white opaque worms that would be pooped out by my small clown). I haven't noticed the same in any of my other fish but figured it best to just treat all for them anyways. Before I treated them my clown would have stringy white poop that clung on. After treatment for the 14 day period and for the last week, whenever they eat Ill see one of the small white worms in the tank being blown around. None of the fish eat them and I make sure to try and net them to remove them as quickly as possible.
I have been putting the worms collected into a glass dish try and get a closer observation(do not have a microscope just yet) with a magnifying lense, and I don't see any movement in the worms so is it possible the fish are just ridding the dead worms or is it possible they still infected by them? Would another round of GC+focus be advised? If so, do I treat them until I no longer notice the worms in the tank?
I have never treated fish medically before so this is all kinda new to me. All my fish went through QT process when I got them originally and treated with copper for 30 days but I didn't treat for internal issues mainly because of lack of knowledge about the subject specifically. The clowns have been the last fish I got and the smaller one came with the unwanted visitors.
All the fish seem healthy and quite fat and are eating well, but there are these pesky worm things that I would guess are quite uncomfortable to deal with.
Any suggestions or information from reefers that have actually dealt with intestinal worms personally would be helpful. Perhaps @Humblefish or @HotRocks could chime in on this? What worked for you?
Thanks in advance.
I have been putting the worms collected into a glass dish try and get a closer observation(do not have a microscope just yet) with a magnifying lense, and I don't see any movement in the worms so is it possible the fish are just ridding the dead worms or is it possible they still infected by them? Would another round of GC+focus be advised? If so, do I treat them until I no longer notice the worms in the tank?
I have never treated fish medically before so this is all kinda new to me. All my fish went through QT process when I got them originally and treated with copper for 30 days but I didn't treat for internal issues mainly because of lack of knowledge about the subject specifically. The clowns have been the last fish I got and the smaller one came with the unwanted visitors.
All the fish seem healthy and quite fat and are eating well, but there are these pesky worm things that I would guess are quite uncomfortable to deal with.
Any suggestions or information from reefers that have actually dealt with intestinal worms personally would be helpful. Perhaps @Humblefish or @HotRocks could chime in on this? What worked for you?
Thanks in advance.
