Flukes that just wont go away in DT

Newms118

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So I've been having to treat my DT with Prazipro a few times and it seems like the flukes just wont go away. The DT obviously has corals/rocks/sand and so may degrade the drug or bind it up. How often have people had to treat like this to fully eradicate flukes in the DT? How soon after the initial dose can you do a second round? I know it says 3 days later but I'm wonder how often people have done the 3 day treatments, consecutively?


Also, as an added bonus, ive noticed that the Prazipro treatments have really demolished my green hair algae. Is this a known effect of the drug?
 
Hi.... hopefully others will chime in, but first how many and what kinds of fish do you have? What size of tank do you have? What symptoms did your fish have? Did you have a any fish loss? Sorry for all the questions....!

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So the tank is a 75 gallon, with 2 clowns, 2 blue dartfish, 1 rainford, 1 purple firefish, and 1 anthias.

When this all started, I had the above fish plus 5 firefish, and a female anthias. They all slowly started getting lethargic, scratching, etc. Some of the fish were breathing a bit hard and coughing. Also some were thin. There was some signs of stringy poop so I started with feeding metro/focus/kanamycin to try and knock out everything. By the time I added prazipro, the fish were dropping like flies, and the last purple firefish was really breathing hard. Its right gill was visibly red and sticking out, and it was going up to the sand and just scratching its gill. After 1st round of prazipro, the fish started spazing the hell out bc of the flukes, but then started to get better, less scratching. No more dying. The purple firefish's gill started to get a little better. Ended up doing two more rounds 5 days apart, and the purple firefish's gill looks back to normal. Fish keep swimming fine and eating healthy.

Now one of the dartfish is scratching on the sand again, and its been having swimming fits. Ill add some food in there, and then itll eat a bit and just dart all over the place, against the sand, the walls. Like its crazy, almost acting like its been stung or something. Its been more lethargic lately. Ive also seen the firefish and anthias starting to scratch again. I dont think its anything aside from flukes because the prazipro definitely helps, it just doesnt seem to knock them all out.
 
have you checked for stay voltage?
5 min fresh water dip should confirm if you are dealing with flukes. within the 3-4 min mark you should see them fall off the fish. if so, you might be dealing with prazi resistant strain in which case 5 days in hypo should eradicate them and their eggs. another option is formalin. best bet is to do it in a qt and leave the dt fishless for two week min (I believe fluke life cycle is about 7-10 days without a host).
If your system is FOWLR (with no inverts) you can do hypo in the display but keep an eye out for ammonia spikes and have freshly made salt water for water changes.
 
How do you check for stray voltage? Man that would be such an undertaking bc thats a lot of fish and i only have a 10 gallon to do treatment. Ive tried doing the FW dip but never see the flukes. Guess Ill have to give that a shot at some point.
 
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