Risk of dosing with prazipro?

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Hello, I am trying to find out some risks of using prazipro. I am 90% sure my one of my fish has flukes, and I do not have a quarantine tank. I am wondering what will happen if I dose my whole tank with this product, will it harm the other fish will it harm basic corals? Will it harm my Anemone? One more question, what will happen if my fish did not have flukes after all
 
I would suggest catching a fish first, any should do... but preferably one with symptoms. And performing a 5-minute freshwater dip:

If you confirm flukes, there is relatively low risk involved with treating a reef with some caveats:

Biggest risk is oxygen depletion, so you'll want to be sure you have sufficient water movement and surface agitation. Also, its advised to keep your skimmer running, just remove the cup so it overflows back into the tank.

It may harm ornamental worms/feather dusters. It shouldn't harm corals or other inverts. Most fish tolerate it just fine, but wrasses can be sensitive to overdose.

Some anecdotal experience: I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary during the normal two doses, but had to dose a third time due to circumstances. After the third dose, I did notice some reduced PE and sliming of corals, but had no casualties or real damage. I've never tried dosing with an anemone, but I have heard some say their nem looked "unhappy" after treatment, but haven't heard of any casualties personally.
 
I did this a year or so ago following basically the instructions lapin posted above in a reef tank with corals, inverts, fish (2 doses spaced out into the main tank) without any issue. There should be other threads here and elsewhere which report the same
 
I will also add it never seemed to effect even the bristle worms (mentioned that they will die in that one thread)
 
I did this a year or so ago following basically the instructions lapin posted above in a reef tank with corals, inverts, fish (2 doses spaced out into the main tank) without any issue. There should be other threads here and elsewhere which report the same
For my own nervousness, did you by chance do this in a reef tank with nems, sps and maybe wrasses? I'm probably being unnecessarily gun shy about this.
 
For my own nervousness, did you by chance do this in a reef tank with nems, sps and maybe wrasses? I'm probably being unnecessarily gun shy about this.
I have used it with Halichoeres wrassses and sturdy SPS (Monti and Slimers). I don't keep anemones
 
I have used it with Halichoeres wrassses and sturdy SPS (Monti and Slimers). I don't keep anemones
I started the process this morning and dosed 46ml into my DT.

Documenting on the link below and on my build thread. But, ugh...don't like this part of reefing... Checking on things every 20 minutes. :grimacing-face:

 
After a few hours everything looks ok.

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I did this a couple years back in a mixed reef and while it didn’t instantly kill any corals, a couple got pretty upset and slowly died over the next ~6 months or so. They were both frogspawn and everything else recovered fine. That being said, as a new tank, I think it really threw off the balance of the tank and slowed the maturing process so looking back, I don’t think I’d do it again if I was in the same situation.
 
After a few hours everything looks ok.

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You’ll be fine.. just keep your skimmer running with the cup off for aeration … it lowers o2 levels and makes the skimmer angry that’s it lol.. in 3 days do a 25% water change and run carbon and get the skimmer back online.. 8 days from now do it all again! Should be good to go after that.
 

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