My plan for fluke eradication

[Newsmyrna80]

How's he doing today?

 

[George9]

My plan for fluke eradication

It's doing better today! She's swimming around more with the angel, and perked up during feeding time. Except she didn't take too much food. The formalin dip definitely helped. I'm deciding between a fw or formalin dip for the angel today, I think I'll do a formalin dip on her too instead of a fw dip.

Edit: literally three minutes after I posted that, I went to check on the tang and her tail was stuck to the filter intake and she wasn't trying to get it off. Generally when that happens, it's not good. But we'll see. Fingers crossed

 

[Newsmyrna80]

Oh dear. Not good. How is she now?

 

[George9]

She is swimming around normally now, poor thing. Hopefully I won't find her dead in the morning.

Do you think I should bother with a formalin dip on the angel or should I just leave them alone? The angel has been doing the best of the two

 

[George9]

I did the fw dip on the angel. It's not looking great. She had a few little black specks at the bottom of the bucket, and this weird thing that I have no idea what it is.

It's the tan speck In the net

 

[George9]

Here's the black specs. It's not the best picture, but gives you a general idea .

 

[Newsmyrna80]

Pics didn't come through. Out of curiosity have you been keeping a record or calendar of the treatments, fish symptoms and behavior, etc? I find this is very helpful for diagnosing and treatments.

 

[George9]

I haven't been keeping an official record, but this thread is pretty much my record since I post so much on it about my findings.

Odd that the pictures didn't show up.

Did that picture work? It's the weird tan lump that I found I the dip container.

 

[Newsmyrna80]

That is not a fluke. Is that the only thing you found in the dip?

 

[George9]

My plan for fluke eradication

No, while I didn't see any of the typical flakey looking white flukes In the bucket, I found about 5-6 small black specs. Are the black specs a different type of fluke?

Edit: just fed them some mysis and the tang is back to eating like it used to!! She must be feeling a little bit better.

How often could I repeat formalin dips? I'd like to do a lot of them over the next couple of weeks because they seem to be effective

 

[Newsmyrna80]

Hard to tell what the black flecks are. There is such a thing as black ich. It is actually Turbellaria worms that Prazi takes care of. If this is the first time you have seen it I doubt that it is black ich. Glad she's eating like normal. That's a very good sign. I would do the formalin dips maybe every 5 days. This will give her time to get her strength built up but still kill recently hatched eggs before they can do any damage. You could actually wait a day or two longer depending on her health. Formalin is toxic stuff (basis formaldehyde) so I would do maybe one more dip and then observe.

 

[George9]

Yeah this is the first time I've seen it I believe. Wouldn't I see black spots or something on the fish if it was?

She was practically eating out of my hand! Not sure what changed overnight, but I'm happy she's doing better.

 

[Newsmyrna80]

You would have. Good to hear she's doing better.

 

[George9]

I did a formalin dip with both of them today. Now should I just wait for a while and observe them? Or should I do regular dips to kill the flukes and break the life cycle?

 

[Newsmyrna80]

How did they handle the dip? If they handled it ok I would wait another week and do another dip.

 

[George9]

Okay, I will do that ! They handled it pretty well

 

[Newsmyrna80]

Good!

 

[George9]

I just made an impulse buy on divers den. This guy will be my last fish and will replace the poor raccoon that passed from flukes I plan on putting him in a separate qt, he shouldn't be diseased but who knows!

This is my new baby- he's just under 2"


I don't see these indian teardrops very often, thought it would be a great addition to my collection
The picture attached twice. Not sure why.

 

[Newsmyrna80]

Pretty fish

 

[George9]

My plan for fluke eradication

I'm just cleaning out my old qt tank to set it up again. I'm doing everything I can to make sure any fluke remaining is gone and the tank is sterilized. The tank itself sat with water for 3 and a half weeks without fish, so I'm hoping most of the flukes died then. If not, I'm running the filter with white vinegar and peroxide and hot water, and I rinsed the tank out with vinegar and peroxide and hot water numerous times. I'm letting the tank air dry.

Do you think it's safe to say the tank is sterilized after all this?