Gill Scratching & Twitching

[jmann]

I recently moved to Arkansas and resetup my 240. I had a 6" pwdr blue and CB butterfly, Kole tang and others in it before the move and gave them to a good friend. I bought a small pwdr blue, CB butterfly, and yellow tang to start with now and have them in quarantine. They have been there for 6 weeks now and they are scratching their gills and they twitch, not all the time but quite a bit during the day. There is no external signs of anything, no ich, velvet,odinium. The CB had some tuffs on his tail fin for a few weeks after having him for a week and I treated the tank with Maracyn and Maracyn-two by Mardell and that is gone. I have had Mardells coppersafe in there for 6 weeks now at a concentration of 2 ppm and the scratching and twitching still goes on. Is there some gill disease that copper is not the cure for??? I am thinking of removing the coppersafe and using cupramine by seachem, as I have used that years ago and had good luck. Any suggestions. John

 

[jhentr]

Check into gill flukes and treat if necessary with PraziPro.

 

[jmann]

jhentr Hey thanks for the info. I had also thought of flukes, but thought copper was supposed to take care of them also??? What is prazipro and where can I get it??? Once again thankyou. John

 

[jhentr]

I read somewhere that CU should, then I also read that CU won't. But Prazipro did it for me. I could see there was a great reduction in twitching and scratching from my fishes after the first dose. I think another dose will do it for me. You can order it online from drsfosterandsmith.