Please help Fluke treatment questions

[201reef]

Hi,

I currently have 5 fish in a 37g QT, a yellow tang, a purple tang, sohol tang, and 2 clown fish. I noticed the yellow tangs eyes are cloudy and looks to have stuff attached to its eyes that I can see. I am going to do a fw dip to confirm, but I believe it to be flukes. My question is regarding treatment. The qt has 40pds of live sand in it. I would like to dose the water as well as med soaked food to treat them. Is it safe to do both at the same time? Should I do one before the other? Also what’s a good recipe for soaking the food in meds.

Meds I plan on using are general cure/focus soaked food. And treat the tank with either general cure or prazipro. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you

 

[dwest]

Certainly FW dip and prazi for the flukes. You can feed the medicated food as well but if you don’t see white stringy poop, I see no reason.

Fluke info

Flukes

Flukes (Monogeneans) – General Guidelines ** Updated 1/11/23 ** Many thanks to “Newsmyrna80” for writing this. Reposted with her permission. Some facts: Flukes are not true flukes. They are actually parasitic flatworms belonging to the class of Monogeans. There are 13 families of flukes...

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[201reef]

Just wanted to give an update. Fw dip confirmed flukes. Started prazi. Lost the sohol today some time during day, and purple tang is doing really bad. 2 clowns seem fine, and yellow tang is covered but acting normal. Think the purple tang is done for, hope the remaining 3 make it.

had no issues in this tank until the 2 new purchases this weekend we’re introduced (sohol and purple tang).

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Just wanted to give an update. Fw dip confirmed flukes. Started prazi. Lost the sohol today some time during day, and purple tang is doing really bad. 2 clowns seem fine, and yellow tang is covered but acting normal. Think the purple tang is done for, hope the remaining 3 make it.

had no issues in this tank until the 2 new purchases this weekend we’re introduced (sohol and purple tang).

It is of course possible to have two disease issues going on at the same time. Skip the medicated food though, unless you dose it properly (see the articles on it here I wrote one and there is a medicated food calculator from another member).

What can happen with Neobenedenia flukes is that the prazi works...too well. The flukes all drop off and then that leaves hundreds of tiny holes in the fish's skin and they bleed out. No real way around that though.

Jay

 

[201reef]

It is of course possible to have two disease issues going on at the same time. Skip the medicated food though, unless you dose it properly (see the articles on it here I wrote one and there is a medicated food calculator from another member).

What can happen with Neobenedenia flukes is that the prazi works...too well. The flukes all drop off and then that leaves hundreds of tiny holes in the fish's skin and they bleed out. No real way around that though.

Jay

Thanks for the reply. It looks like I’m dealing with brook as well. Purple tang is discolored this morning and looks like peeling. Only thing I can get my hands on today is ruby reef rally. Going to give each a bath in it. Can I do all the fish at same time? Or should I do each alone

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

If the dip bucket is large enough and you use aeration, all at once should be fine.
Jay

 

[201reef]

Did the dip this morning. Came home purple and yellow tang were dead. Just the two clowns left

 

[vetteguy53081]

Did the dip this morning. Came home purple and yellow tang were dead. Just the two clowns left

Oh no and sorry to hear. As with any treatment, a fish in distress can improve or further deteriorate. Prazi does reduce oxygen and appetite. other factors are cleanliness of bucket, type of water and temperature of water.

 

[trout]

It is of course possible to have two disease issues going on at the same time. Skip the medicated food though, unless you dose it properly (see the articles on it here I wrote one and there is a medicated food calculator from another member).

What can happen with Neobenedenia flukes is that the prazi works...too well. The flukes all drop off and then that leaves hundreds of tiny holes in the fish's skin and they bleed out. No real way around that though.

Jay

Dipping fish in strong Acriflavine solution (6 ppm) over 30 minutes may address this problem by preventing secondary bacterial infection.

 

[DaddyFish]

I'm sorry to be late coming to this thread. I would have added that my last tang acquisition still has Prazi-resistant strain of flukes. I've had to resort to Formalin and that has helped, fish is noticeably improving.

I am sorry for your loss, especially the YT in these times.