Treating Internal Parasites of Picky Fish

[humuhumu787]

Does anyone have any tricks for treating internal parasites of picky eaters such as Potter's Angels or anything else that prefers to graze on LR rather than eat out of the water column or off nori clips?

I was planning to prophylactically treat with Metroplex + Focus but my Potter's definitely won't eat it. Not while in QT like it is now. It is currently in it's first round of PraziPro, planning to do Copper Power afterwards. Maybe this combo is sufficient for prophylactic treatment?

 

[EakTheFreak]

Does anyone have any tricks for treating internal parasites of picky eaters such as Potter's Angels or anything else that prefers to graze on LR rather than eat out of the water column or off nori clips?

I was planning to prophylactically treat with Metroplex + Focus but my Potter's definitely won't eat it. Not while in QT like it is now. It is currently in it's first round of PraziPro, planning to do Copper Power afterwards. Maybe this combo is sufficient for prophylactic treatment?

Could always food soak general cure once he decides to eat. Could start with live brine shrimp, than mix in frozen with live brine. Then transition this fish to frozen brine & medicate it with general cure/focus & some garlic Gaurd or Selcon added to it.

Something that worked for me with my leopard wrasses.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Metronidazole is very bitter, and focus doesn’t cover the taste very well. Many fish will try it once and be done.
Remember, marine fish drink water to maintain proper osmotic balance. If you dose the water with a med at the proper dose, they ingest it that way.
I posted a medicated food article here that explains why soaking food in medication almost never achieves a proper dose.
Jay

 

[EakTheFreak]

Metronidazole is very bitter, and focus doesn’t cover the taste very well. Many fish will try it once and be done.
Remember, marine fish drink water to maintain proper osmotic balance. If you dose the water with a med at the proper dose, they ingest it that way.
I posted a medicated food article here that explains why soaking food in medication almost never achieves a proper dose.
Jay

I’m surprised by this. Why is there so many articles and videos about food soaking with general cure with recommend doses. 1 tablespoon food, 1/8 teaspoon general cure, 1/8 teaspoon focus etc.

Is it all just hear say?

 

[lion king]

General cure in the water column, it contains both metronidazole and praziquantel, so you can even forego the prazi pro treatment. This is how I treat all my predators which eat live food.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

I’m surprised by this. Why is there so many articles and videos about food soaking with general cure with recommend doses. 1 tablespoon food, 1/8 teaspoon general cure, 1/8 teaspoon focus etc.

Is it all just hear say?

It isn't hearsay as much as the alternative is too much work, so people tend to go the easy route (grin). Have you read the article I posted? it explains the dosing issue with soaking food in medication:

Proper Dosing of Medicated Foods

This article offers information about developing medicated foods for aquarium fish

www.reef2reef.com

I will say this - there are some fish treatment things on Reef2Reef that are accepted as dogma, but are not viewed that way elsewhere. Specifically I've seen certain things posted over and over again: soaking food in medications, adding Epsom salts to water, laying fallow for 76 days and a few others. I'm going to work on revising the sticky notes, but it is difficult to find the time.

Jay

 

[humuhumu787]

Wow, thank you all for the replies! Learning a ton here. Ok I will pick up some general cure and go from there.

 

[humuhumu787]

Actually, since I've already done the first dose of Prazipro for my QT, how should I go about using general cure? Complete the second dose, wait a couple weeks then general cure? Then copper power to follow up?

 

[Jay Hemdal]

You can dose with GC at the time you would have dosed with second dose of Prazipro, they both are about 2 ppm praziquantel.

Jay