Mysterious fish deaths are more common now (Flukes)

[cthetoy]

Originally Posted by jlinzmaier

I dose it into the water in a high flow area per instructions. I would think putting it into the food would expose the fish to far too concentrated amounts of the med and would likely kill them.


What do you mean you couldn't use your skimmer for months?? Becuase of the excess foaming?? If that were the case then it may be pertinent to use more carbon to remove/neutralize the medication.

Don't mix Prazipro with food. One reefer learned the hard way and lost a few fish that way.

Prazipro will make your skimmer overflow. My skimmer outake was wide open and it still overflowed so I had to restrict the air going into the skimmer. The reason why I kept my skimmer running was for extra aeration.

Using carbon combined with a water change will remove most of the Prazipro and your skimmer should work normally after a week.

[jlinzmaier]

Well, prazipro certainly doesn't live up to the label. It may very well be helpful in managing flukes but it sure didn't eradicate my flatworms. Even after dosing three doses (all above recommended dose amount and the second being 2X recommended dose and the third dose being 3X the recommended amount). Dipped some corals today and they were still present. Their numbers have certainly diminished but they are certainly present.

Regardless, I think I proved that prazipro is reef safe including tanks with duster clusters (mine are still doing fine). Not sure how detrimental it would be to other feather dusters since I didn't have any present. I would certainly use it to treat the tank if I suspected that a fish had flukes, but it's been unsuccessful with the flatworm eradication.

My initial dose of FWE didn't do the trick either but I'm going to give the tank yet another couple doses of FWE to see if it can wipe them out.

I believe that a part of my problem is that I haven't gotten an exact ID on my flatworms. Maybe if I could get a more specific species diagnosis I might be able to treat with medications more specific to the species.

Jeremy

[hottuna]

anyone think lowering salinity to 1.015 long term and small doses 0f prazi would get rid of flukes?
2 consecutive treatments at full strength have only slowed them down...

[cthetoy]

Originally Posted by hottuna

anyone think lowering salinity to 1.015 long term and small doses 0f prazi would get rid of flukes?
2 consecutive treatments at full strength have only slowed them down...

Hyposalinity down to 1.009 will not get rid of flukes. A 5 minutes freshwater dip will get rid of most flukes and confirm if the fish has flukes.

People have used Prazipro lowered salinity water however pH is usually lower in those conditions and adding Prazipro can make the pH dip to a dangerous point making it worse and creating additional stress on the fish.

Also the toxcity of ammonia is magnified in lowered pH