Prazipro Timing and Duration with TTM

[Johnseye]

I administered the first dose of Prazi as a prophylactic at the last TTM cycle. Placed fish (two Bartlett Anthias) into a more permanent QT with bio filter, waited a week then administered a second round of Prazi. Considering Prazi is only active a couple days, killing any potential pests, would it be safe to move the fish into the DT only after a couple days of the final Prazi treatment as opposed to the 5-7 considering this is the final treatment?

 

[Dmorty217]

Prazipro is rendered useless in 72 hrs, probably closer to 48 hrs. The flukes should all spasm off the infected fish within the first 24 hrs or the dosage isn't strong enough

 

[Dmorty217]

What about if CP was given at the same time?

CP won't do anything for flukes, no matter what the dose. When I use PP now, I redose every 3 days for 2 weeks straight to make sure there is no way some newly hatched flukes can make it to sexual maturity

 

[Dmorty217]

Will do.

Here is some previous pics that I took before starting PP. I was instructed to dip the fish, which I did in Paraguard (never did a FW dip, last time I tried making the water I struggled getting the pH correct). After the dip and a round of PP, many of these spots fell off/went away. Its just that I recently saw it flashing and upon inspection, saw these spots again. Ill post up a good pic later today.

I should add I also have 40 mg / gallon CP in the water with the PP.

Those are flukes all over the clowns, freshwater or formalin dip them and watch the white flakes start to fly

 

[firemountain]

Yes, you will read different opinions on this topic. Me, I dose on the 2nd and 3rd transfers. Reasoning being, I try and make sure the fish are eating before dosing the PP, as it is known to suppress appetites.

Echo this. +1

 

[microlady]

Will formalin dips eradicate these flukes?

 

[Johnseye]

Will formalin dips eradicate these flukes?

Formalin is temporary relief. Prazipro or API General Cure to eliminate them.

 

[microlady]

I have Prazipro so I can use that with no problem, but some are saying that they've seen flukes resistant to Prazi, and even formalin. I don't know of anything resistant to formalin.

 

[Newms118]

So I can chime in again on this post. I completed 7 TTM and those white spots are gone from the clownfish. Paraguard, CP, and PP did nothing to get these off. So I dont think these were flukes, instead it must have been ich that was resistant to CP (I was using NLS Ick shield so who knows how effective). Right now my clownfish, blue damsel and royal gramma are back in an actual tank (I was doing the TTM using 5 gallon buckets with 3 gallon water) and they seem active and hungry.

However, I did see the royal gramma flash twice today. I looked at him and I dont see anything. I tried doing the TTM with PP but the fish couldnt handle it, seemed really stressed. I had an airstone but Im thinking the PP depeleted too much oxygen so I just didnt continue with it. I'm thinking the gramma is flashing based off of flukes, but who knows. Frankly, I'm tired of treating mystery illnesses if I cant see what I'm treating. At least with the TTM I can now see the white spots gone from the clown.

How can I easily see if the gramma has flukes? I mean flashing doesnt mean disease, it could be really anything.