Best way to prophylactically treat a longhorn cowfish

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I have a 3-4" longhorn cowfish in my qt right now with a watchman goby. I brought up the salinity over 3 days and now I am treating with prazipro. Should I just switch out the prazipro for the next 2 weeks? I usually go from prazi to copper to prazi, but my lfs don't do copper.

I have some nice fish in my DT, and I don't want to risk them with a new fish that isn't properly quarantined. Advice on cowfish seems to be relatively sparse. Thank you.
 

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I have a 3-4" longhorn cowfish in my qt right now with a watchman goby. I brought up the salinity over 3 days and now I am treating with prazipro. Should I just switch out the prazipro for the next 2 weeks? I usually go from prazi to copper to prazi, but my lfs don't do copper.

I have some nice fish in my DT, and I don't want to risk them with a new fish that isn't properly quarantined. Advice on cowfish seems to be relatively sparse. Thank you.
Safest would be using general cure treatment which contains low level prazi pro and safe for this fish
They are often affected with coppersafe usage
 

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I have a 3-4" longhorn cowfish in my qt right now with a watchman goby. I brought up the salinity over 3 days and now I am treating with prazipro. Should I just switch out the prazipro for the next 2 weeks? I usually go from prazi to copper to prazi, but my lfs don't do copper.

I have some nice fish in my DT, and I don't want to risk them with a new fish that isn't properly quarantined. Advice on cowfish seems to be relatively sparse. Thank you.

Cowfish are really prone to ich, not so much flukes. Prazi needs to be dosed 2x, 8 days apart to break the life cycle of any egg laying species.

Coppersafe is ok to use on cowfish, but I prefer hyposalinity as they are very tolerant of that.
 

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