Levamisole In-Tank Treatment for AEFW

[Jay4Robin]

My fish died from ammonia burns and it was only 2 after about a week or so.

The collateral damage is what you need to ready for. You kill the flat worms but it can also destroy your reef.

I should have just tossed my corals and waited it out.:fun5:

If anything I could have saved a few tips from my corals and had a friend hold them:debi:

I have been on RC for a long time and over 95% of the remedies worked. This one needs a few more test tanks to perfect:mixed:

 

[MiamiZach]

Just wanted to say I did a levamisole treatment in my tank and none of the corals suffered. Granted, I was using it to treat ich in my tank, which it didn't really do, but the pure levamisole that I used at 5 grams to 300 gallons of pure levamisole that I got from charles harrison, left in the tank for 4 hours, didn't do any harm at all to all my sps, lps and soft.

 

[Jay4Robin]

it took a few treatments to cause my crash.

The first treatment did not cause any problems.

 

[Bax]

It was not until my fith "insurance" treatment that I suffered the fish losses and crash/cycling.

Idealy, all acros should be removed to a treatment system. All bases clipped off and three rounds of Levi administered, while the main display remains acro free for six to eight weeks.

The problem I found with that is that none of my systems have ever been able to be 100% completely acro free. There's always some acro grown or fragments somewhere, and that is all it takes to support AEFW through the treatment period period.

This use of Levi in the system should only be applied when there's no other options. If you can break down the system , trim, dip & isolate your acros for treatment, and "cook" your rock seperately in the dark so the acros don't survive it should work. But the reality is few of us can do that.

I'm very pleased that I did not toss out all my corals and that many survived the pluage. Hopefully, with porper QT procedures, I'll never go though this again. I don't know if I'd fight them the same way, in the tank, if there is a next time. Frankly, if it happens again, I'd go FOWLR and get angels & butterflies.

 

[Jay4Robin]

Finally we are ready for frags!
After many buckets of salt and over 100 mexican turbos 3 test kits a tank of Co2 the purchase of a few wrasse and 2 bottle of Capt morgan to numb the pain.
Oh and 2 Sea Hares!!!

 

[F35-Joint Strike Fighter]

I have done three treatment with prohobit levi and seen my acros repsond much better now. I plan to treat levi evrymonth mandatory. The question I have now is where can I get prohibit levi besides ebay?Thank for your help.

 

[Bax]

Jay

Looking good!

F35...

Do NOT treat monthly! You WILL crash your tank!

 

[F35-Joint Strike Fighter]

Any source where to buy prohibit levi now?

 

[F35-Joint Strike Fighter]

I have just finished the fourth treatment today. My tank looks good now. The first treatment was scary when I saw all the worms and aefw died off (including the regular fw) and my corals looked pretty bad. Well, now i will have to wait what happens the next 5 months.

 

[Bax]

Be patient, just like a new tank, let it rebuild the biological losses and you'll be OK

 

[442]

I have checked all the places listed in this thread. Where can we buy prohibit. I found foys had the vermisol tablets, but with my calculations I would need over 2000 pills for full treatment and they do not have that many in stock.

 

[442]

forgot to mention I have almost 600 gals total system water. If someone would not mind checking my math.

 

[442]

Sorry for the triple post but for me that's almost $1000 worth of meds. There has to be a cheaper product.

 

[Bax]

Keep hunting for Prohibit

 

[F35-Joint Strike Fighter]

Keep hunting for Prohibit

Same here.

Somehow I fell confident that I can kiss those suckers goodbye. In the next three months, I won't add anymore corals to see If i succeed with this type of treatment or not.

 

[DeathWish302]

Sorry for the triple post but for me that's almost $1000 worth of meds. There has to be a cheaper product.

Dude, bit the bullet and buy the 20gr of Prohibit for $35 from the guy on Ebay.
I did and kicked myself for selling my 52gr packs a few years back.
Sure beats all those dips with Coral Rx or using an unknown dewormer.

$35 for 1200gal worth of powder for Prohibit
or... $24 for 17 gal worth of Coral Rx dip.

Pick your poison.

 

[rtbm]

I kind of thought this thread got a little derailed a while back? It seemed like it was concluded that prohibit no matter what strength did not actually kill the worms but just stunned them. More often than not resulting in catastrophic acro losses in the process.


Has anyone done some real testing with the stuff yet?

 

[F35-Joint Strike Fighter]

I kind of thought this thread got a little derailed a while back? It seemed like it was concluded that prohibit no matter what strength did not actually kill the worms but just stunned them. More often than not resulting in catastrophic acro losses in the process.


Has anyone done some real testing with the stuff yet?

My tank had done 4 treatments and doing better now. It will tell in the next for months.

 

[rtbm]

Have you visibly observed any worms actually die as a result of the prohibit?

 

[James404]

Honestly I'm surprised this thread is still going. I initially started this thread merely to document my trial of the product, I no longer even run the tank I did the treatment on and lost all acros I had. My new tank has been running for almost a year. I think we have all come to the conclusion that levamisole only stuns the AEFW at most, and is really not an effective treatment. I would hate for someone to happen along this and end up crashing their tank. I have been tempted to ask a mod to close it.