Intestinal Worms and Metro soaked food.

[Big G]

How would you recommend dosing the food with prazi? Get some powdered prazi or use prazipro? Is the ratio the same as the metro soaked food or is focus not needed? Thanks.

As Humblefish suggested you could use API General Cure. It's a powdered form of Praziquantel and Metro. GC + Focus + food

 

[Humblefish]

How would you recommend dosing the food with prazi? Get some powdered prazi or use prazipro? Is the ratio the same as the metro soaked food or is focus not needed? Thanks.

You can use Prazipro; dosing doesn't have to be exact. Just completely saturate all the food with Prazipro and then add 1 scoop of Focus to bind it.

Do you currently have an internal parasite issue, or is this just for QT purposes?

Where I live the LFS are riddled with diseases. So, I've been watching for fish with white stringy poop and then buying them for my fenbendazole experimentation.

 

[Stingray122]

You can use Prazipro; dosing doesn't have to be exact. Just completely saturate all the food with Prazipro and then add 1 scoop of Focus to bind it.

Well I bit the bullet and dosed the tank. Noticed about 10 minutes later one of my clowns passing a very dark colored stool, almost gray/black. Was definitely hard, it was not breaking up in the water column. Interesting, possibly a parasite itself. Ive also noticed from the past couple weeks that my smaller clowns stomach has some dark color inside of it, thought maybe internal organs since I'm no marine biologist, perhaps these are the parasites themselves? Looks almost the same size as the one passed. I have increased gas exchange by moving one of my powerheads towards the surface where it meets with the return pump and creates a heavy riptide effect. Ill keep everyone updated.

 

[Stingray122]

@Big G @Humblefish so a little observation ive noticed. It seems that their stringy poop seems smaller in diameter? Usually was probably Id say maybe 1.5mm in diameter now its more like 0.5-0.75mm. Kind of interesting. It doesnt seem to be getting as long either and falls off sooner. Should I take this as an improvement or something else? Thanks guys.

 

[Humblefish]

@Big G @Humblefish so a little observation ive noticed. It seems that their stringy poop seems smaller in diameter? Usually was probably Id say maybe 1.5mm in diameter now its more like 0.5-0.75mm. Kind of interesting. It doesnt seem to be getting as long either and falls off sooner. Should I take this as an improvement or something else? Thanks guys.

I wouldn't consider improvement until you see brown, not white, poop.

 

[Stingray122]

Update: @Humblefish @Big G Haven't noticed stringy poop for 4-5 days now. Wednesday will be the end of the 2nd week dose. They seem to have put on some serious weight, the male mocha seems to be much thicker than I've ever seen before, and the female seems huge. Their color also seems much more brilliant that I can recall. I believe the Prazipro did in fact work. Would you guys recommend a third dose? Ive heard somewhere that 3 is the maximum, but I do not want to end up with a bacterial bloom, but it might be a risk I'm willing to take as I've been battling these worms for months. I did a 10 gallon water change (would have done more but I was in a hurry that day) on my 57ish gallon system before the 2nd dose, and am planning on doing at least a 15 gallon change on Wednesday. Their eating habits seemed to have changed as well, they do not eat as much as they did before, and seem to be gaining weight like crazy in the last 3 days. Is that normal? Maybe they felt the need to eat more due to the fact they were probably malnourished. Also when can I reactivate my skimmer? Would it be fine to turn it on Wednesday after the water change and just monitor it for over foaming? Thanks so much for the help.

Edit: I have seen brown poop, but I really have to look for it after feeding. It seems to fall apart in the water column within seconds. I mostly only notice it because one of them will start chasing after it. Nasty little fish

 

[Humblefish]

@Stingray122 Sounds like you are good to go.