Please help me identify....ich? Skin flukes?
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Yeah thats my opinion also.. first sign.was my gramma was breathing very heavy, hiding and noy eating.. so i did 2 weeks of prazipro then stopped when all seamed better.. but now i noticed this on the clownfishes side..
Prazi needs to be dosed twice, 5-7 days apart to be effective
+1 How to do a FW dip: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/freshwater-dip.248898/
Video tutorial: https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/video-how-to-do-a-freshwater-dip.214/
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Yeah i did treat the tank for two weeks as the bottle directs..
3/3/17 dosed
3/6 dosed
3/10 water change carbon
3/12 dosed
Last 3/17 dosed
3/27 noticed clownfish had them spots
I think the eggs wait to hatch until the meds are not present.. so im thinking of dipping all fish and quarantine.. ill keep update.. thanks
3/3/17 dosed
3/6 dosed
3/10 water change carbon
3/12 dosed
Last 3/17 dosed
3/27 noticed clownfish had them spots
I think the eggs wait to hatch until the meds are not present.. so im thinking of dipping all fish and quarantine.. ill keep update.. thanks
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First thank you humblefish, i have read lots of your post while stuyding on fish diseases.. so are you under the impression that i didnt dose long enough to kill the nematode that hatch? Also i seen the video you post on you tube about fw dips while looking for answeres on what i should do.. so im wondering when you get fish at the pet store with flukes what are the symptoms and can you visually see them or anything..
Your Prazipro dosing schedule looks fine (actually overkill) but there are also prazi resistant flukes to consider.
A FW dip would tell us definitively whether or not flukes are 100% gone.
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So i would like to do a dip but if i do and confirm that its (flukes) what should i do i have 5 fish
Ywg
2clowns
Gramma
Yasha gobie
Should i quarantine all five and go fallow... also what meds would i treat in a quarintine that kill fluke and their eggs?
For prazi resistant flukes, you can use hypo (1.011 SG) to eliminate juvenile & adult flukes. And egg hatching will be prevented if you maintain 1.011 for a week.
Only other option I know for treating prazi resistant flukes is formalin: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/formalin.290925/
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Im 99.9999 percent sure its not ich. I bought two b. cardnials and a yasha gobie. No quarintine(lesson learned) the cardnials ate few days then stoped eating died week later. I should of dipped them then but did not(lesson learned) they showed no signs of anything but did have white stringy poop. So i thought maybe internal parisite or irodio virus(spelled wrong). So about a week after the cardnials died my gramma stopped eating and was hiding breathing very heavy so i started dosing prazipro.. i dosed 3 to four times over two weeks with water changes and carbon before each dose. The gramma recovered so i thought all was well and now it brings me to this clownfish situation.. so if i fw dip and confirm or not confirm flukes what would be the action you would take after the dip. Sorry for long post i just thought you should know all info also i appreciate all your work on the website you and humblefish do thanks
