Metronidazole or Focus?
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You might want to use praziquantel to de worm your fish. You just mix 23mg per pound of fish into you food. Do this once every 6 days. You can also mix Praziquantel with Focus too so it will bind with food.
Here's a good article on it:
http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/fish-diseases-treatments/37765-de-worming-marine-fish-super-pooper-snooper.html
Here's a good article on it:
http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/fish-diseases-treatments/37765-de-worming-marine-fish-super-pooper-snooper.html
That fish is about a half or whole ounce. It kills things fairly low on the evolutionary scale, but does not kill sandbed bacteria.
I'm not sure on this, but I suspect it may all small animals, worms, pods, etc, in your tank, all the life you got live rock in the first place to get.
Anyone have any experience at worms and pods and such coming through this stuff alive?
ANother possibility is a fishfood from Jungle, that incorporates these meds [prazi, metronidazole, etc) into a food taken internally, which is the best way of administering an antiparasitic. It is for freshwater fish, however, its food content would not harm marine fish that could be persuaded to eat it. The only downside is that it's not as nutritious as real marine food, but we're not talking about a lifelong diet, here, just a few doses to get down their fishy gullets. And it would not therefore be wholesale into your water.
I'm not sure on this, but I suspect it may all small animals, worms, pods, etc, in your tank, all the life you got live rock in the first place to get.
Anyone have any experience at worms and pods and such coming through this stuff alive?
ANother possibility is a fishfood from Jungle, that incorporates these meds [prazi, metronidazole, etc) into a food taken internally, which is the best way of administering an antiparasitic. It is for freshwater fish, however, its food content would not harm marine fish that could be persuaded to eat it. The only downside is that it's not as nutritious as real marine food, but we're not talking about a lifelong diet, here, just a few doses to get down their fishy gullets. And it would not therefore be wholesale into your water.
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Here we go: some info from Seachem, the maker of the 'zole/Focus pairing: http://www.seachem.com/support/forums/showthread.php?t=2313
They say it's ok, but recommend soaking food in it, to try to target the problem. They say they have used it with corals and inverts---but always be aware, an individual coral or invert could be a problem.
They say it's ok, but recommend soaking food in it, to try to target the problem. They say they have used it with corals and inverts---but always be aware, an individual coral or invert could be a problem.
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