API "General Cure"?????

[mil hse]

I recently lost most of my fish due to ick... so I ve set up a QT tank.. I'm getting 5 new fish on Tuesday and i wandering if anyone has used API's general cure for a preventive?

The active ingredients are: 250mg Metronidazole and 75mg Prazaiquantel.

I ve read most of you all use Prazipro. I ve been reefing for many years now but have been lucky enough to have not had any fish problems till NOW. So your help will be appreciated.
Thanks

 

[C0rp]

Will be a good treatment for deworming the fish and flukes. Basically its a prazi treatment with some metro thrown in for some bacterial disease as well.

 

[travis32]

I tried general cure on a powderbrown tank while in QT.. The tang went nuts.. Scratching himself nearly to bleeding. And then paced the tank constantly. That all within 6 hours of a half dose of general cure.

I did a 30 % water change and put my carbon back in. Within a couple hours the tang was fine...

 

[MrTuskfish]

I've never heard anything positive about anything that claims to be a 'general cure". You said that you recently lost all your fish to ich and this product will do nothing to prevent or cure ich---or similar parasites. If the dosage of the Prazaiquantel is adequate (the same as Prazi-Pro); then I can't see where it should hurt anything. I always use a de-wormer (Prazaiquantel ) in QT and can't see where adding Metronidazole would do much; some products claim this prevents velvet & ich. It doesn't. IMO, only hypo, copper, and probably Quinine Sulfate will prevent/cure ich. I've always used copper as a prophylactic in QT; but many experts (Fenner, Goemans, etc) are now recommending QS. Because of the controversy surrounding copper, I don't suggest it to everyone for use on new fish. However, I'd do some research on Quinine Sulfate if ich prevention is your main concern, and use it with prazi-pro.

 

[mil hse]

Thanks for the responses, Im not to concerned about ick specifically. I m just don't want to lose all my fish again as i had most of them for quite a awhile. Im just looking for the best preventive that i can use. I l look into Quinine Sulfate. I went a head and ordered some prazi-pro. thanks again for the reply's.

 

[MrTuskfish]

Good plan. You should have some med (or plans for hypo) when you QT new fish; that's when parasites show up and are very easy to eliminate. QT everything and you'll never go through the "ich plague" again. I learned the hard way, a long time ago, and haven't seen a parasite in any of my DTs in years.

 

[travis32]

I don't want to debate this, but, I just looked at Chucks Addiction as my tang has spots on it after going through 7 week hypo treatment. According to Chucks Addiction there are roughly 20,000 known forms of Parasitic copepods. Many of which can simulate or look like ich and have a 1-9 year life cycle instead of 1 month life cycle like ich.

It stated that white spots aren't always just ich. Ich is always blaimed, but I wonder how many cases are actually ich or parasitic copepods?

Oh and parasitic copepods are immune to hypo. So, I don't believe my tang has ich....

 

[mil hse]

travis32: sorry to hear that...hope your tang pulls through.. i lost a PB tang, pair of blue throat triggers, pair of Green Mandarin, a fairy wrasse, and a mides blenny due to some sort of ick spots or parasitic something...i do believe that there are far more decease s than we know and probable false diagnose them but im just hopping my QT ing my new fish will help me. i hope you don't lose yours

 

[MrTuskfish]

I don't want to debate this, but, I just looked at Chucks Addiction as my tang has spots on it after going through 7 week hypo treatment. According to Chucks Addiction there are roughly 20,000 known forms of Parasitic copepods. Many of which can simulate or look like ich and have a 1-9 year life cycle instead of 1 month life cycle like ich.

It stated that white spots aren't always just ich. Ich is always blaimed, but I wonder how many cases are actually ich or parasitic copepods?

Oh and parasitic copepods are immune to hypo. So, I don't believe my tang has ich....

Scientists have identified & classified 20, 000 parasitic copepods???? Maybe. But, almost always, external parasites we see can be identified and eliminated. Knowing how to identify, or having someone who can, is a vital part of this hobby. If your tang doesn't have ich, find out what it is and treat it with something that does work. Losing fish to "mystery parasites" should be very rare. BTW; (IMO) I think ich is mis-diagnosed a lot as well. Its almost become a generic term for anything that shows up as white spots. But whatever the parasite is, it can probably be eliminated.