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[Edgar F]

Hi all

quick question i recently got a blue tang 2 weeks ago and fish has been shied to start, not eating and a few days ago I saw him flashing gasping for air and I suspect flukes on gills.

on Thursday i did a first round of prazy and did not see any change still not eating. i dont see any signs of ich but the flashing still continues looks like it is scratching the guils

was thinking of doing a water change today and remove all the medication the do another round of prazy tomorrow as it may have been an old batch that i got a year ago or more lol

any recommendations?

by the way all other fish look fine and eating like piggies

thanks all

 

[MnFish1]

stay with your protocol.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hi all

quick question i recently got a blue tang 2 weeks ago and fish has been shied to start, not eating and a few days ago I saw him flashing gasping for air and I suspect flukes on gills.

on Thursday i did a first round of prazy and did not see any change still not eating. i dont see any signs of ich but the flashing still continues looks like it is scratching the guils

was thinking of doing a water change today and remove all the medication the do another round of prazy tomorrow as it may have been an old batch that i got a year ago or more lol

any recommendations?

by the way all other fish look fine and eating like piggies

thanks all

It may be eating but not in your presence. Next feeding, step way back and see if its coming for food.
Prazi does reduce appetite. How did you dose it (what measurement?)
Add aeration with air stone when using prazi

 

[Edgar F]

i have a 110 gal so i dose for like 90 gal about 20 ml of Prazy, yeah i did add an air stone.
i been watching have a camera and no does not eat since i put him in

was thinking of getting everything out and dose again as maybe my bottle of Prazy was too old.

 

[Edgar F]

It may be eating but not in your presence. Next feeding, step way back and see if its coming for food.
Prazi does reduce appetite. How did you dose it (what measurement?)
Add aeration with air stone when using prazi

Have a camera been looking for 2 days he barely swims strong enough flow puches him around

 

[vetteguy53081]

Have a camera been looking for 2 days he barely swims strong enough flow puches him around

Please provide video under white light intensity

 

[Edgar F]

Please provide video under white light intensity

I will try to get one in a bit

 

[Edgar F]

Check this one out its in blue but it's king a clear will get one tonight

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Check this one out its in blue but it's king a clear will get one tonight

Still to blue and far away to really evaluate.

My concern is that flukes usually do not cause a fish not to eat until that fish is really close to death. I've seen fish with flukes feed right up to a day or two before they died.

Protozoan diseases like velvet cause rapid breathing and the fish won't eat, almost from when the symptoms begin.

Bacterial infections can more rarely cause rapid breathing as well.

That all said, do you know the history of this fish before you got it? Was it eating at the store? Sometimes, more often than people realize, fish are sold that have pre existing issues. I always ask to see a fish eat before I buy it.

One issue is that some of the areas where these fish are collected use cyanide to stun the fish. Many of those fish (sometimes over 50%) do not survive the first 40 days in captivity. While rapid breathing is not a common symptom of that, excessive shyness is.

Jay

 

[Edgar F]

Still to blue and far away to really evaluate.

My concern is that flukes usually do not cause a fish not to eat until that fish is really close to death. I've seen fish with flukes feed right up to a day or two before they died.

Protozoan diseases like velvet cause rapid breathing and the fish won't eat, almost from when the symptoms begin.

Bacterial infections can more rarely cause rapid breathing as well.

That all said, do you know the history of this fish before you got it? Was it eating at the store? Sometimes, more often than people realize, fish are sold that have pre existing issues. I always ask to see a fish eat before I buy it.

One issue is that some of the areas where these fish are collected use cyanide to stun the fish. Many of those fish (sometimes over 50%) do not survive the first 40 days in captivity. While rapid breathing is not a common symptom of that, excessive shyness is.

Jay

Don't have a lot of information for the fish have a friend who use to have a store he closed the store but still do orders the fish was shipped on wensdays and arrive the same day like around 10 pm. Acclimated the fish and went in the tank.

Right now did a water change and will take a better video once he comes out and post it asap.

 

[Edgar F]

Still to blue and far away to really evaluate.

My concern is that flukes usually do not cause a fish not to eat until that fish is really close to death. I've seen fish with flukes feed right up to a day or two before they died.

Protozoan diseases like velvet cause rapid breathing and the fish won't eat, almost from when the symptoms begin.

Bacterial infections can more rarely cause rapid breathing as well.

That all said, do you know the history of this fish before you got it? Was it eating at the store? Sometimes, more often than people realize, fish are sold that have pre existing issues. I always ask to see a fish eat before I buy it.

One issue is that some of the areas where these fish are collected use cyanide to stun the fish. Many of those fish (sometimes over 50%) do not survive the first 40 days in captivity. While rapid breathing is not a common symptom of that, excessive shyness is.

Jay

Thus us the best I could do it doesn't come out



when you paste the link change the quality to 720 fist video looks better by the way

 

[Edgar F]

Thus us the best I could do it doesn't come out



when you paste the link change the quality to 720 fist video looks better by the way

got this one he got out for a bit

 

[MnFish1]

Unfortunately - I have no way to view the videos - I'm sure the others will weigh in again.

 

[Edgar F]

Unfortunately - I have no way to view the videos - I'm sure the others will weigh in again.

Np man I appreciated

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

got this one he got out for a bit

I don't see anything alarming in the videos (from what I could see). The fish isn't breathing too fast.

Are you using praziquantel powder, or Prazipro? Prazipro usually has an expiration date on a sticker on the bottom of the bottle. It doesn't have a super long shelf life.

Jay

 

[Edgar F]

I don't see anything alarming in the videos (from what I could see). The fish isn't breathing too fast.

Are you using praziquantel powder, or Prazipro? Prazipro usually has an expiration date on a sticker on the bottom of the bottle. It doesn't have a super long shelf life.

Jay

i haven't checked but its oooold ....im using prazipro well i just checked it expired on 2021 . fudge.=

i did catch him scratching his gills a few times this afternoon and going crazy for a few seconds.

I'm going to get a new one tomorrow and try again.

today i did a 25% water change and added carbon and turned on the UV.

hope it wii helps

 

[Edgar F]

got a new bottle of prazi and started the dose again.

as soon as i added the prazi it started scratching the guiles hopefully this new bottle at full strength will do the trick for the tang.

 

[Edgar F]

have a new video