Can't get rid of flukes...Prazi didn't work

[Ostri]

Have you tried formalin dips?

I'm dealing with something similar, but not exactly the same. I think I did have an original fluke issue, but with repeated treatments the issue did not completely resolve. Now I'm seeing what I guess are a few ich spots here and there, along with opaque/cloudy blotches, which I originally thought were skin flukes until nothing came off in a FW dip.

Now I'm doing TTM on all the fish to eliminate ich as a possibility. Also doing formalin dips and antibiotic (NFG) during the course of TTM. Maybe it's just because I'm paying more attention, but I think theres something nasty circulating in the hobby... seeing a lot of reports of flukes, prazi-resistant flukes, and unknown issues.

I haven't. I did use Paraguard. I'm in process of hypo right now. The flukes do not look like normal flukes at all they look like WHITE STRINGS 2MM LONG FIXED ON THE SKIN (not dangling). This is very weird and at 1.012 they are not dying so I'll drop the salinity even lower.

 

[Ostri]

One thing I'm trying is to lower salinity so much that eggs don't hatch. I'll then transfer the fish into an uninfected hypo tank and let the eggs hatch in the DT.

 

[Ostri]

"This is just way too XXXXXXX much!"

Thought of the day.

 

[Ostri]

For more than half a year now I have been using the old 90g tank to hold all my corals. Now I'm setting up a 20g and a 40g tank to transfer the corals into them. Then I will lower the salinity of the 90g tank and put all my fish in that tank from main 225g DT. Then I will increase the salinity in DT and put corals into the DT and call it done. The DT will remain empty until I figure this thing out. Having to deal with fish disease while also taking care of multiples tanks of corals waiting to get into the DT is just way too xxxxxxx much. Whatever dies dies. I just cant deal with this anymore. The house is a mess and it has caused me way to much time. I need to consolidate everything into 2 - 225DT for corals & inverts, and 90QT/HT for all the fish. This hobby sometimes just takes way too much time and efforts. Sometimes I feel like simply keeping an SPS tank with some cheap and hardy fish is WAY easier than keeping it with expensive & big fish.