Prazipro not killing flukes
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Newsmyrna80
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Thanks Humblefish! I actually did a 45 minute dip with formalin/malachite on 5/1. I then put him in a new QT with all new equipment to break the cycle. I then treated with Prazipro (2 rounds 5 days apart). I did a freshwater dip on him last Thursday, no flukes. I've done a couple of water changes since then. He's eating great and I have not seen him scratch or flash. Now I'm wondering when I can put him back in the main tank.
Newsmyrna80
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Update: I did a freshwater dip on the Flame Angel on 5/19. Nothing came off of him. He finally made it to his new home after 2 months in a QT.
+1 Because symptoms of flukes can mirror Ich in the gills; you have to do a f/w dip to determine which it is.
Can you tell me how to correctly do a freshwater dip? How did you get the pH correct, bc when I've tried this its been hard to do bc it kept changing based on temp.
ThRoewer
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Because if you search for "flukes" you will find the wrong parasites: intestinal trematodes and nematodes.
The gill and skin parasites that are called incorrectly flukes around here are actually Monogeneans, a totally different class of parasites with several genera and thousand of species that live in fresh, brackish and saltwater. Due to that diversity there is not a single treatment that is effective against all.
Some strictly Marine species are effectively treated with hyposalinity (salinity below 15 ppt for 3 to 4 weeks to get also the eggs), others can be killed with Praziquantel (PraziPro), for some copper does the trick and some require Trichorfon (Dylox). But there are even some that are unaffected by that.
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ThRoewer
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Some of them can be treated by one of the other methods.
As for the ones that are resistant to everything: you light a candle at church and pray a rosary that you never get them.
