What's up with my Ocean Tang

[Dj City]

@Humblefish

You are a lifesaver

 

[Humblefish]

Happy to help.

 

[Dj City]

I am continuing with the Prazipro but the Naso died overnight. I'm bummed out about it.
I guess he was not showing symptoms of an infection till the cloudy eye showed and it may have been too late already from that point.
I will continue to dose the PraziPro to try to ensure my existing fish are clear of the parasite.

I will be using a QT tank from this experience forward.

 

[Humblefish]

Sorry for your loss

 

[Dj City]

I just got a beautiful sailfin tang 3 days ago. He's in qt tank. He looks healthy but seems to have developed what looks like a sore on his mouth.
Should I go ahead and treat him with the metroplex + kanaplex + furan2 just to be safe?
The pics are real bad but the best I could do.

Also, if I treat him I'm treating the water right? And if I use the trio above I would not use prazipro?

 

[Humblefish]

Can you get a closeup of the sore on his mouth? I'm not seeing it.

 

[Dj City]

@Humblefish
I will try to get a better shot when I get home.
I have not given any medication as of yet.

 

[Christoph]

Hello,

Im very sorry for your loss! - Nasos are evry personable fish, and i also was close to crying when i lost a large Naso elegans that readily ate out of my hand.

Ive posted this before on R2R, but this thread is a good place to place this bit of information again:

Nasos are intolerant of praziquantel (PraziPro, etc). Do not use praziquantel containing medications on naso tangs.

I witnessed the reaction of nasos to praziquantel myself but there is many more cases found in the web. Most often they react with bloating, they go off-feed and frequently dont recover from the medication

Best wishes,
Christoph

 

[Dj City]

Hello,

Im very sorry for your loss! - Nasos are evry personable fish, and i also was close to crying when i lost a large Naso elegans that readily ate out of my hand.

Ive posted this before on R2R, but this thread is a good place to place this bit of information again:

Nasos are intolerant of praziquantel (PraziPro, etc). Do not use praziquantel containing medications on naso tangs.

I witnessed the reaction of nasos to praziquantel myself but there is many more cases found in the web. Most often they react with bloating, they go off-feed and frequently dont recover from the medication

Best wishes,
Christoph

Oh dang!
I had no idea. I would feel really horrible if I killed him by trying to save him with a med that is harmful to him. It seems strange that prazipro would be harmful to Nasos and not other Tangs though.
I will look into this.

 

[Christoph]

I dont think tis is "broadly known", and there is not very much posted about this sensitivity.. So its very understandable that you didnt know that. - Dont feel bad, youre doing a great job here caring for your fish.

Best,
Christoph

 

[Dj City]

@Humblefish

I hope these pics are better. One of the pics looks like cottonmouth but t that is not what it is.
It looks like an open sore.

 

[Big G]

Should I go ahead and treat him with the metroplex + kanaplex + furan2 just to be safe?

Absolutely 10-14 days. And I would also treat some of its food for 10 days as well metro + Focus + food, so it's getting it internally as well.
Beautiful fish.

 

[Humblefish]

Nasos are intolerant of praziquantel (PraziPro, etc). Do not use praziquantel containing medications on naso tangs.

This is news to me. I’ve successfully treated at least 3-4 Nasos using Prazipro and 2 with GC (which contains powder praziquantel.)

The Blonde below was a personal specimen of mine, treated with Prazipro. The Regular Naso was a velvet rescue, treated with General Cure. Both were also treated using Chloroquine.

 

[Humblefish]

@Dj City Does the mouth look anything like this??

 

[Dj City]

@Humblefish

Not really. It looks like the skin is just gone. Like a scrape but there is nothing in the tank for him to scrape against.
Or a burn. I have a heater in there but i don't think the fish would not stay on a heater till it burned itself.
The heater is on 76 degrees putting out about 77 degrees to the water.

 

[Christoph]

This is news to me. I’ve successfully treated at least 3-4 Nasos using Prazipro and 2 with GC (which contains powder praziquantel.)

The Blonde below was a personal specimen of mine, treated with Prazipro. The Regular Naso was a velvet rescue, treated with General Cure. Both were also treated using Chloroquine.

Hi Bobby, thanks for the information!
It seems to be dependent on the individual. - I had these really bad experience with a blonde naso and praziquantel (twice). Then i started researching and found several others that reported exactly the same problems. Since you were succesful treating your Nasos with praziquantel id guess its just a fraction of them showing hypersensitivity towards the medication. Id suggest a good approach would be to avoid preventative treatment of them using praziquantel, but use the medication in case of confirmed flukes?

All the best,
Christoph

 

[Dj City]

@Humblefish

Should I treat with the trio?
Should I treat with the trio + prazipro?
Should I treat with both but seperate? (Prazipro) them after finishing prazipro dose the trio (or reverse)
Should I treat with something different? Or should I treat at all.?

 

[Humblefish]

@Dj City I would actually treat with Furan-2 + Seachem Sulfaplex for this particular kind of infection.

 

[Dj City]

I may not be acolyte to get my hands on sulfaplex locally.
What else could I use?

Would General Cure do the trick?

 

[Humblefish]

I may not be acolyte to get my hands on sulfaplex locally.
What else could I use?

Would General Cure do the trick?

Can you get API Triple Sulfa?