General Cure (API) parasitic treatment

[travis32]

Well, I just wanted to give a quick up date on using this with my powder brown tang currently in hypo treatment because I thought it had ich..

I have the tang in a 29 gallon tank with around 15-20 lbs of LR. The tang has been in 5 weeks of hypo treatment and doing great. Eating great, etc. However, white wormlike things showed up.

So, I had some API general cure packets. (Parasiticide - paraquintel is the drug I believe in general cure.)

It said 1 packet per 10 gallons. So to be on the safe side, I dosed 2 packages = 20 gallons of water. It said wait 48 hours. Do a water change and then dose again. Wait another 48 hours, then, do a water change and run carbon.

Well, tonight the tang is running back and forth pacing the glass wanting out. It goes up and scratches against rock. Every now and then I see something white fall off it. Just a small white speck. But the tang looks highly irritated. I have to assume it's got ankor worms that are dieing and irritating the tang.

Anyone get this reaction from their fish being treated with a parasiticide? I just hope I don't wake up in the morning with a dead fish. Dead parasites I'm fine with, a dead fish not so much.

 

[Sk8r]

I'm not finding anchor worm (actual the female of a species of not-so-good copepod) in marine tanks, rather in fresh water. Flukes are a possibility. Be sure it is not losing skin: a magnifying glass and strong light are in order. If you are in qt, see if you can arrange a floss filter with a powerful pump and see if you can pull that crud out of there and toss it in the morning. SOme parasites hit the sand/bottom, then literally hatch like Alien from the parent and come back to reinfest the fish. Get that water super purified if you can. We don't at this stage know what's being shed.

 

[travis32]

yup, I didn't like how the fish was acting, it couldn't sit still it was twitching, itching, and moving back and forth. Reminded me of when my mini schnouzer nearly was killed by tick prevention medication. Nothing said it was for larger dogs, and she scratched her skin off so bad she bled, and the vet said the stuff can cause neurological damage. The dog was miserable for over a week and was on benedryl to combad the reaction to the tick parasite remover.

The tang was almost acting the same way. So, I just did a quick 30% water change. Washed off the filter pad and carbon and put it back on. The fish went into hiding, I'm hoping pulling out the crap and putting in 10 gallons of fresh salt water will help. I did 5 gallons of 1.014 and 5 gallons of 1.010. The remaining 20g of tank water was 1.009 so, it should get close to 1.010 or so.

I vaccumed out the bottom completely.

 

[Asureef]

I thought the direction said to add one packet for every 10g, then repeat after 48hrs and wait another 48hrs before doing a 25% water change?

 

[travis32]

it does. I added 2 = 20 gallons of water. I have 29gallon. I was dosing lighter to see how the fish reacted. The fish went beserk. I should have added 3 packets, but, the fish was so irritated that I stopped the treatment. It was stressing the fish out way too much.

The fish is fine this morning. In reading online prazipro and praziquintel can cause neurological damage in fish. I've got a cleaner wrasse in my Display. The wrasse will enjoy picking flukes or other parasites off the fish if none of them are harmful or infestations such as ich.

The tang looks really good, and is acting normal this morning. I'm surprised it didn't jump out yesterday as fast and rapid it was swimming and breathing. I doubt it would have been alive this morning if I had left it. It literally went nuts with only 66% of the full dosage.

 

[Asureef]

I've read several posts on the API product, which I should have done before I bought it. I have a blue tang in QT with a mild case of hlle that I wanted to use the general cure on. Guess I'll hold that off and revert back to food, as I've read lots of good things about New Life Spectrum fish food. The only down size is getting the tang to eat pellets.

 

[travis32]

The tang was scratching again today and extremely hyper.. He never scratched before I dosed general cure... Grrr...

I'm going to do water changes and start raising the SG to get him out of Hypo and into the display. He'll be a lot less stressed, and have a better, healthier food supply -- aka lots of macro, ha, and other algae for it to munch on in the display. Not to mention room to swim...

He's lived 5 weeks and ate well. I'm confident he doesn't have any serious diseases and the hypo should have taken care of any ich he may have had.

I had a clown with HLLE. It cleared up by doing the following 3 things (I don't know which one or a combo of all 3 solved it). 1.) started dosing vitamins in their frozen shrimp. I started with elos, and I use selcon now. great stuff!. 2.) I addeda grounding probe to my display. 3.) I removed my carbon from the tank.

Around 2 weeks after doing all 3 of those, the clown's holes and pits in his head are all but gone.

I had gotten the general cure to use on the clown. Now, I'm glad I didn't! Probably would have killed it.