Treating Brook

[pdiehm]

Can't find anything locally to treat it. Using paraguard, as Seachem says it will treat it. Friend recommends Chloroquine Phosphate.

Any thoughts on this?

 

[jedimasterben]

Paraguard won't help you, chloroquine will. It is now readily available from New Life International as 'Ick Shield' powder, but you need to double the dosage on the bottle. The bottle doses to 8ppm, you want 15-20.

 

[pdiehm]

I have some chloroquine en route. Where can I get this Ick Shield from New Life Spectrum?

 

[jedimasterben]

Amazon has it, and any place that stocks NLS foods should also carry it or at least be able to order it, but Amazon has Prime shipping

 

[pdiehm]

What's the ingredients of Ick Shield?

 

[jedimasterben]

I,4-Pentanediamine, N4-(7-chloro4-quinolinyl)-NI, NI-diethyl


aka chloroquine phosphate

 

[pdiehm]

Paraguard won't help you, chloroquine will. It is now readily available from New Life International as 'Ick Shield' powder, but you need to double the dosage on the bottle. The bottle doses to 8ppm, you want 15-20.

So basically I would need to put in 2 scoops to treat infected fish? I think I'll start using this with all new fish. 1 scoop for 21 days.

Would you use this following TTM and 2 doses of praziquantel? Or use this from the start for 21 days?

 

[jedimasterben]

If the fish is not in rough shape, then place the fish in QT, let it settle in and get to eating, then do a treatment of praziquantel. After a week, do a 50% water change (or run carbon for a day), do another dose of praziquantel. A week later, do another 50% change (or run carbon for a day), and then dose CP to twice the dose as listed on the NLS bottle.

 

[pdiehm]

So would be 5 weeks of QT. dose twice the recommended amount to treat precautionary?

 

[jedimasterben]

If you observe the fish pooping normally (should come out as fine sand), then you can skip the second prazi dose. It's more a precautionary measure.

 

[pdiehm]

Ok

 

[pdiehm]

i just picked up 50g off amazon for free (used my amazon points). I did get some cp off Ebay (username: UncleRobertsGarage), and others have commented that his stuff works very well. I used 1/4 tsp for 20 gallons. Not so sure that I should have used double that dose, but we'll see.

When I get back from Disney next sunday, the NLS IS should be here, and if the fish are doing worse, will make a batch of water and dose with the IS. Right now, I think both had early signs of Brook, and started treating immediately with Paraguard, which actually, to my surprise has made some improvements to the one fish's symptoms.

 

[pdiehm]

Here is a picture of what I presume is poop!