Flukes

[freezetyle]

I had recently lost a fish due to Flukes ( I think). Would i have to leave my DT fallow like you would with ich in order eradicate all of them?

 

[Outerbank]

Purchase prazipro and treat the tank. This should take care of the flukes and Prazipro is pretty harmless to the display tank. I have read that they will lay eggs on the fish. Martin Moe's book states they fall off the fish to the bottom of the tank and then release a bunch of free swimming larvae that attach to other fish.

 

[freezetyle]

thanks for the reply. Since i have some coral in the tank would it be best to put them in QT when medicating? after treatment, do some water changes and add some carbon to soak up the remainder of the meds?

 

[Outerbank]

Prazipro is the safest medication available. Safe enough to usually be used in a reef tank without any problems. This is because the medicine specificly attacks select worms. I have SPS, a few LPS, shrooms, H. Magnifica, hermits, snails, deep sand bed and I see no negative affects on my tank. It can kill, from reports I have red, several tube worm species.

 

[scubasteve06]

Yes prazi-pro is 99% reef safe. I say 99% because it can kill feather dusters. It kills all the things that interceptor does and more. Its active ingredient is praziquentinel (sp*?). Whenever I get a new fish it gets a 7 day prazi-pro treatment and a 21-28 day cupramaine treatment (sometimes I use formalin depending on species and severity of the specific case)

But yea prazi-pro works great too they recommend that you do the treatment in two stages one first stage for 7-10 days and then a day or two after those 7-10 days do a 25% w/c and then dose it again for another 5-7 days or the best would be another 7-10 days. This method has always proved itself 100% effective against flukes in my case.

 

[Makenna]

Although it is reef safe, can anyone answer the question as to whether flukes need a host to survive?

Point is, if the tank is already fallow to control ich, will it also eradicate any flukes that may be still around.

I think that is the point the OP is trying to ask, if not please forgive.

 

[freezetyle]

Although it is reef safe, can anyone answer the question as to whether flukes need a host to survive?

Point is, if the tank is already fallow to control ich, will it also eradicate any flukes that may be still around.

I think that is the point the OP is trying to ask, if not please forgive.

the tank is currently Fishless. If prazi-pro is reef safe like suggest i would probably run one cycle of it in order to kill off the majority, then just hope the rest starve.

Thanks again for all of the input

 

[HorsePower]

Yup, i'd like to say prazipro is 100% reefsafe, I used it in my reef tank probably 2 or 3 times and I have sps and lps, only thing that got disturbed were the "birdnest" type sps....