Pinched Back on Bluethroat - pics

jnc914 said:
Prazi-Pro is added directly to the water either in QT or in a FOWLR. I wouldn't chance using it in a Reef system. You should do back to back treatments with a water change between the first and second treatment. Metro comes in diffrent brands/forms, I have personally used http://www.seachem.com/Products/product_pages/Metronidazole.html
and it has worked on several fish. Not to be a downer though, but when my Goldflake looked like your Trigger, it eventually passed.
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Thanks Jason.
 
I dont recommend it to other people, but I have used Prazi in my reef and never lost anything other than feather dusters. But that was my reef, not yours. Use at your own risk. When QT is possible, it is always the best option.
 
My female blue throat looked like that when I purchased her. (the fish was clearly going to die in their care, so I rescued it)

IME, fish do not fatten up quickly. It took at least a month for mine to fill in with a diet of frozen seafood (squid, octopus, clams, mussels). It wasn't until a year later that the fish began to eat Nori as well.
 
IME, prazipro does not get rid of internal parasites, only flukes. I treated my reef with prazipro 3 times trying to get rid of internal parasites and it did not work. I started soaking their food in a product called Gel-tek and it seems to have worked.
 
Untamed12 said:
My female blue throat looked like that when I purchased her. (the fish was clearly going to die in their care, so I rescued it)

IME, fish do not fatten up quickly. It took at least a month for mine to fill in with a diet of frozen seafood (squid, octopus, clams, mussels). It wasn't until a year later that the fish began to eat Nori as well.
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Just curious, beside the variety in diet, did you also treat for parasites at the time? :spin1:
 
I made up some sea-food Jello tonight mixed with Metro+. The trigger ate several big pieces of it. I took the risk of feeding in my reef. Hopefully it works out. I'm a little concerned about little pieces being grabbed my corals and nem. I pulled all of the pieces I saw at of the inverts.

Carbon is running. One big piece pin-balled down through my live rock. Hoping for the best.
 
i treat all newcomers with pazipro in QT for at least a week. i have read people dose their display but have no info first hand. I reccomend using it to kill internal parasites as well
 
IME, prazipro does not get rid of internal parasites, only flukes. I treated my reef with prazipro 3 times trying to get rid of internal parasites and it did not work.
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+1, this has been my experience as well, prazi will not treat internal parasites.

I'm a little concerned about little pieces being grabbed my corals and nem.
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Dont know about corals but my LTA has ingested some of the metro food with no ill effects, the hermits have eaten it as well, I think it is pretty invert safe in this form.
 
Kahuna Tuna said:
+1, this has been my experience as well, prazi will not treat internal parasites.

Dont know about corals but my LTA has ingested some of the metro food with no ill effects, the hermits have eaten it as well, I think it is pretty invert safe in this form.
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Thanks to the advice I got here I went with the Metro instead of Prazi. The bottle of metro said it was for HITH disease whereas the Prazi said it was for parasites. The bottle of Prazi also didn't say anything about it being used in food and the Metro did and they were from the same manufacturer.

Glad to here your LTA had no issues. My Tomato clown keeps feeding the stuff to my BTA and I've been pulling it out.

Any idea how many days I should feed this?
 
StripestheEel said:
How is the trigger going?
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Not great. Started hiding all the time and pretty much stopped eating. I just got done ripping up half my tank to find him and get him out into a hospital tank. Made a bunch of frags in the process unfortunately. Need to glue a bunch of frags again. HT is treated with prazi now. I didn't want to treat my entire reef tank w/ prazi. My digitatas were not liking the metro in the food so I wanted to stop that as well. A purple digitata is RTNing on me. Two others have had poor polyp extension for the last couple days.

So, in the HT I have 3 pieces of LR from my display, a sponge filter, with power head and a heater. The water came from the DT. Will that be enough to keep ammonia and nitrite down? I just set up the HT so it is not established on its own.

Should I also add metro in the HT?
 
My SPS isn't happy after the treatment. Digitatas have had next to know polyp extension. Can't quite tell if they're dead. Can still see some color in the pores so I'm leaving them in. A pedal on my orange monti cap is starting to bleach. Color has been poor on both the orange monti cap and my green. Green one and the bleaching orange cap pedal have algae growing on it. Some of my frags are also RTN/STNing. Includes my red planet and a milli.

I've been doing daily 20% water changes for the last 6 days. I've been running massive carbon and some GFO in a reactor for the last 8 days and added a poly filter about 6 days ago. None of this seemed to help and may be hurting so I'm stopping to see if things improve.

I'll never treat a fish in my reef tank again.

As far as the trigger goes, he's doing ok in the HT dosed with Prazi and is eating food dosed with Metro but still doesn't look like he has put on weight yet. Doing daily 50% water changes to keep ammonia in check.
 
curious how you know prazi did not treat you internal parasites. Did you do an autopsy adn did you dose correctly for the correct amount of time. I am still for prazi. You may be able to soak food in it but i dont think it is ment to work that way.
 
lostintheocean said:
curious how you know prazi did not treat you internal parasites. Did you do an autopsy adn did you dose correctly for the correct amount of time. I am still for prazi. You may be able to soak food in it but i dont think it is ment to work that way.
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Huh? I said he is currently being treated with prazi in a hospital tank.
 
are you using carbon on dt .It will pull the meds out of the system and start water changes and you could help the corals make it through this too gl Grant
 
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