panacur dosing

[seagazer]

Been a long two days. I've decided to go ahead, and treat my juvenile tank with panacur. Will it also kill the cleaner shrimp I have left in there? Should I move it to the reef tank. I do have some live rock in this juvenile tank, but not much. I'll just take the sacrifice of any worms, and move all my snails, and hermits to the reef for now. I guess I'd better scrub they're shells with a toothbrush first, right?

The corals I have in this tank are:
1 open face brain
1 buttom polip colony
2 candy cane polips
and some purple grape calupra,
will any of these be affected by the panacur.

Last, and most importantly. How much do I dose a 30 gallon cube, and for how long? I assume I need to take my charcoal out of my canister filter.

You folks are great. I really need to get going on this. I just lost an adult male to gbs tonight. Took him fast. I only started treating him today with oral diamox in ghost shrimp. (bumbed) I think it had alot to do with the temporary overcrowding of my reef. He's had it in the past, and I've successfully treated it. Didn't have enough time to treat it this time though. He was already too stressed out.

ONE MORE THOUGHT?

What if I took two fairly good sized rocks from my reef aquarium, treated them with panacur, and put them into the infected juvenile tank? Do you think there would be enough panacur residue left in these two rocks to treat my juvenile tank without actually dosing the entire tank? The two rocks in question are about 5lbs each, and extremely porous.

Thanks for your assistance guys, and gal!

 

[Fredfish]

I'm surprised nobody has answered. You need to move your sick horses to a hospital tank to treat them. rather than treating the main tank.

I have been lucky enough that I have no direct experience with treating seahorses, so I hope someone else comes along with more detail.

Definately no charcoal during the initial treatment period. It will absorb the medication and render the treatment useless.

Fred

 

[seagazer]

Hi Fred,
Thanks for the reply. I talked to Dan @ Seahorse Source. He recomended 1/8 tsp every other day for 3 days. I just dosed the first time yesterday, and already the hydroids have disappeared from the glass. I plan on going thru with the full 6 day regimend. I had moved the babies from the tank about 2 weeks ago when they started dropping like flies. Since I didn't get an answer on the corals, I went ahead with a freshwater dip, and shook them really well while scrubbing them with my fingers. I did this because I noticed when I added ro water to my tank with a drip hose the fresh water was causing the hydroids to release from the glass when I held it on them. I also removed all of my artificial coral, (done with that stuff I think). I'm going to stick with live rock. I've never had these problems with my reef tank
and I have no artificial stuff in it.

I do have 1 worry though. I've moved everything into my reef. It looks like a flea market in there. I'm worried about my bioload while I'm treating the Juvenile tank. Any suggestions on how to protect it?

Thanks again Fred for responding!
Best Regards

 

[Fredfish]

OK, you are treating for hydroids. I though this was related to the adult you lost to GBD.

On the bioload, test for nitrites and nitrates. and do water changes is they rise. You could just increase the size and frequency of water changes during the treatment period.

I may be wrong on this, but I thought the effects of pancure lingered long after the treatment, and would effect things like snails a lot. Double check this with someone like Dan though.

Fred