Need Advice for Tapeworm and Ich Treatment

After a very long day yesterday and pulling all of my rock, everyone is in the HT.

I also made and froze a bunch of metro and focus omega enriched brine. I chose brine because everyone eats it and swallows it down quickly with one gulp. I don't want them to chew something, realize there is medicine, and spit it out.

The lineatus is in a tupperware with holes to keep from tumbling. It was in bad shape after the move. Really hoping it will still eat and take down some metro
 
The lineatus is in bad shape. Floating in the perforated tupperware upside down and not eating.

The other fish all ate the metro infused brine I believe. The kole is now breathing rather quickly. Are there side effects to metro?
 
Update: Dosed the water column of the 55g with 6 scoops of Metro. The lineatus is still not eating and floating upside down in the tupperware. All other fish appear to be doing okay and eating except the coris wrasse. It has been hiding in the cup of sand I put in the tank. The Kole is still breathing pretty heavily and hiding a lot, but doesn't seem any worse off.
 
No big changes. Lineatus still whirling and looking weak. Coris hiding in the sand. All other eating and looking well.
 
Dosed my second round of metro tonight 8 scoops for 55g.

Lineatus still alive, but barely able to keep itself upright. All others have been eating well and seem okay. They don't seem too particularly happy with the dose so I hope it works and is worth it.
 
If it realy is ich, you need to treat all the fish at the same time in a Q.T tank and leave D.T fish free for 4-8 week. Ich is NOT very commom in the wild. It is only when it enters are tanks, and it has the fish to host on in a small enclosed area, that it gets out of controle!!. Just making sure your fish are well fed is not the answer. Fish don't die in the wild because they have a better immune system and are less stressed and well fed. There is just very little ich, in the wild!!.
 
Your Q.T. tank should be rock and sand free> if you add sand from D.T tank you may add ich!!. Ich likes rock and sand. You can't dose copper with rock sand in the tank.
 
Thanks. I am treating internal parasites with metro followed by prazipro. Then if I see ich I will treat accordingly. So far no spots or scratching even after all the stress of moving them to the QT.
 
Well the lineatus didn't make it. I'm going to do a big water change tonight and hopefully start prazipro tomorrow.
 
Here is an update for those interested.

I did a 28g water change on the 10th. Another 14g water change on the 13th. Administered my first dose of Prazipro on the 13th as well.

Observations

For filtration I have a large sponge filter and a tunze 3162 filled with bioballs and some sponge pads from the display tank to seed bacteria. I think the Metro in the water column significantly affected the bio filtration in the tank. The sponges in the tunze filter smelled really foul and were removed (on the 10th). This is also why I did such a big water change on the 10th and I added carbon for a few days. Eventually the smell went away and ammonia settled down (per alert badge and test kits). Overall I have been having difficulty keeping ammonia down even with 25% water changes every few days.

Since the last water change and prazipro on the 13th, things are looking much better. the Kole tang had some small flat light blotches on its pectoral and tail fins that went away over night. In addition, the flasher wrasse took a massive white semi stringy BM about an inch or so long. So I'm hoping whatever was ailing him is no gone.

In general, the fish seem happier, livelier, and hungrier after the prazipro. In addition, a couple of them are scratching every now and again so I think they had flukes and are now scratching at old wounds or fluke die off.

So far no visible signs of ich. The next round of prazipro will be the 19th or 20th. So I will continue to look for signs of ich. But so far so good!
 
Tough day on the farm :(

I believe the bioballs in the tunze reactor ran dry killing off bacteria that then polluted the water when topped off the tank.

Overnight fish went from great shape to stressed mucusy and not eating. Ignorantly, I did a 25% water change and administered my second dose of prazipro...which I believe was the final blow.

Next morning the kole tang was dead and everyone else was headed in the same direction. I needed to go work so I moved the survivors back to the display. Got home and the potters angel had passed.

the lubbock and coris wrasse look fine, but the flasher is struggling. He's mucusly and has some sand still stuck to him and it looks like one pectoral fin is half gone. I believe this is from ammonia burn.

This is the worst day in my reefing history. I went too big to soon. I should have gotten one fish at a time and qt in a smaller tank where higher percentage water changes are easier and used a better seeded sponge.

I'm going to let things settle for a month and then restock one at a time. I'm still going to qt, just with better precautions in place.

Wish me luck!
 
I'm beginning to suspect another culprit......one of the magnet mounts on the tunze 3162 was significantly rusted.
 
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