Can skin and gill flukes survive hyposalinity @1.009?

[ThRoewer]

I just finished treating 3 of my regal angels with hyposalinity against ich (worked perfectly BTW).

I'm debating if I should put them through a prophylactic PraziPro treatment or rather not. My past experience with PP wasn't good - I had to abord it because the fish really didn't like it and started breathing heavy.

While these 3 showed the head shaking at the height of the ich infection, it was most likely due to the ich and not flukes.

I'm also wondering if skin and gill flukes could actually survive therapeutic hyposalinity levels?

 

[Deinonych]

This article mentions hyposalinity as a treatment protocol, but I'm sure there is the possibility that some strains are hyposaline-resistant.

 

[ThRoewer]

Well according to that article hyposalinity may actually already be effective at 15 ppt. That's quite a bit higher than the 9 to 10 ppt I had the fish in for 2 weeks.

Since I didn't see any indication of a fluke infection before and this would just be prophylactic I will rather skip Praziquantel.

With Regal Angels less treatments are better - I may just give them another formalin dip before transferring them to the DT.