fish has flukes?

[sweeper7]

so a few things i came ot realize after researchign on flukes.

when i put my new true perc in the QT he seemed to be swimming "fast" but not moving. He was wiggling non stop in one place, BUT he was eating very very well.

he does only hang out near the corner of the tank in a vertical position, so i dont know if hes flashing or not.

maybe twice a day I notice he does this rapid twice at first i thought the water flow from the HOB would make him twitch but it makes no sense especially since he does it away from it as well.

than about day 6 i noticed he was rapidly breathing and at the surface so i thought it was a case of ammonia, did a WC and addd lots of prime to the tank, he does look way better so im sure it helped but i also read these are all signs of fluke.

I am about to get my anthias in today and was thinking shoudl i just do prazipro treatment on them together at once as soon as i add the anthias in the QT as well becuase to my plan the clown was leaing the QT today to add the coming in fish but i might have to ulter that plan due to this study.

 

[sweeper7]

i also have cupramine but i dont see signs of ich, any other meds i might need?

 

[h2so4hurts]

Did you test your QT for ammonia and nitrite? Sounds a whole lot like ammonia poisoning to me. Flukes usually cause flashing and coughing or head twitching.

 

[sweeper7]

what exactly is flashing? when they swim aginst the glass?

my ammonia was reading at .25 but i had prime in it as well so it could have been false but thena gain it was doing pretty well once i did a 60% WC with lots of prime. My nitrite is at 0.

He did stop the rapid breating recently.

I dont konw if i should add the fish in teh DT ordo a prazipro treatment to be safe. One thing I am wondering is if this fluke is 1) contagious and 2) if i put it in the DT will it affect the DT even tho there aren't any fish in there? for instance how you have to go fishless if you introduce ich in the DT.