Twitching after copper

Greenstreet.1 · Jan 22, 2018

Good day to all.

I have a purple tang that went through prazi and them copper treatment. Now I see every now and then he/she would twitch. Can copper cause this ?
Eats like a pig from day one and through the entire qt time. breathing regular only thing odd is the twitching.

Onelove.

melypr1985 · Jan 22, 2018

A purple tang doesn't normally twitch like that. I'd like to ask the details of your prazi treatment. How exactly did you do it? Dose on day one, water change 48 hours later, second dose 5-7 days after the first?

ZachR32 · Jan 22, 2018

It's twitching because it's still sick

Greenstreet.1 · Jan 22, 2018

melypr1985 said:
A purple tang doesn't normally twitch like that. I'd like to ask the details of your prazi treatment. How exactly did you do it? Dose on day one, water change 48 hours later, second dose 5-7 days after the first?

Yes I did

lagatbezan · Jan 22, 2018

A 5min fresh water dip will confirm if you are dealing with flukes.
If not flukes maybe stray voltage?

Greenstreet.1 · Jan 22, 2018

lagatbezan said:
A 5min fresh water dip will confirm if you are dealing with flukes.
If not flukes maybe stray voltage?

Nah neither one.

4FordFamily · Jan 22, 2018

Greenstreet.1 said:
Nah neither one.

You confirm with a dip in a dark bucket? Some strains are resistant to prazi.

Greenstreet.1 · Jan 22, 2018

4FordFamily said:
You confirm with a dip in a dark bucket? Some strains are resistant to prazi.

I will do it tomorrow but for some reason I don’t believe it’s flukes.

4FordFamily · Jan 22, 2018

Greenstreet.1 said:
I will do it tomorrow but for some reason I don’t believe it’s flukes.

It may not be but I’ve been surprised many times in the past!

Twitching is most frequently attributed to flukes and the like.

Greenstreet.1 · Jan 22, 2018

4FordFamily said:
It may not be but I’ve been surprised many times in the past!

Twitching is most frequently attributed to flukes and the like.

I will just treat with GC also if I see or don’t see flukes.

zed102 · Jan 22, 2018

I am interested in your finding because I had a blue throat trigger that started twitching during copper treatment. I also did not find any flukes during a fresh water dip, but completed two rounds of prazi and formalin just to make sure since the twitching persisted. Eventually I added him to the dt and he finally stopped twitching after about a month in copper free water. Six months later he is still doing great. In the absence of any disease diagnosis I have attributed the twitching to the copper.

4FordFamily · Jan 22, 2018

Perhaps it’s twitching attributed to itchy healing

Greenstreet.1 · Jan 22, 2018

zed102 said:
I am interested in your finding because I had a blue throat trigger that started twitching during copper treatment. I also did not find any flukes during a fresh water dip, but completed two rounds of prazi and formalin just to make sure since the twitching persisted. Eventually I added him to the dt and he finally stopped twitching after about a month in copper free water. Six months later he is still doing great. In the absence of any disease diagnosis I have attributed the twitching to the copper.

I will post my findings in the morning after dip. Will be starting GC after that. I believe it’s the copper power that caused it was going to put him/her in the display but I heard Humblefish and the crew in my head saying don’t do it till you sure so i checked in with the crew first. So dip and GC it is just to be sure.

zed102 · Jan 22, 2018

It is definitely worth taking the time to rule out any other possibility. Once he goes in the DT you can’t go backwards. BTW there is a disease in freshwater fish called the shimmies. According to a few articles I have read it has been attributed in some cases to copper. Videos of this condition showed similar symptoms to what my trigger was displaying.

Greenstreet.1 · Jan 22, 2018

I think it is the copper. I was going to try and wait it out but my love for my fishes won’t let me do it. They are like my kids don’t like to see them looking like something is wrong.

Greenstreet.1 · Jan 22, 2018

zed102 said:
It is definitely worth taking the time to rule out any other possibility. Once he goes in the DT you can’t go backwards. BTW there is a disease in freshwater fish called the shimmies. According to a few articles I have read it has been attributed in some cases to copper. Videos of this condition showed similar symptoms to what my trigger was displaying.

It’s not a head twitching thing it’s more like a little body twitching. I tried to get a vid but it’s not happening hides every time [emoji23]