provalactic ick/parasite treatment for tang?

[silence88]

i have had a hepatus tang and foxface in QT for about a month now, temp is 80, not sure about the rest, the tang seems realy healthy and hasent got ick wich i was realy worried about and why i havent gotten one for so long, the foxface seems realy healthy as well but dos look skinny at times thought iam not feeding much bsieds a bit of red nori and mysis every day

iam just wondering if i can put them in the DT or not? i was thinking of soaking there nori in hikari prazi pro afew times in case they had worms would that be a good idea? i was also thinking of adding some copper for a few days just to be safe, but i dont whant to OD and kill them if they dont seem sick, iam just realy paranoid about disease sence i have lost most of my fish and dont whant to loose any more

 

[Steven1015]

I never thought to tri the prazi pro on nori but whenever i soak that on food the fish jsut spit the food i can take some food soak it in prazi pro and put it in the tank and none of the fish will eat it spray some reg food and the fish go nuts. Kinda wierd.

 

[sharkman878]

a couple of things, rabbits are notorious for worms. prazi may help but do some research into panacur, its a vetranary dewormer that can be mixed into food, I believe Edward Noga's book on fish disease describes it in detail. it is much more effective than prazi, but also much trickier to use. Second, do run copper, at least a week, get a good cu test kit, not api, to monitor copper levels. formalin and fresh water dips are also really good qt measures.

 

[biger]

If you want copper to do anything you will have to use it for at least 2 or 3 weeks. I used cupramine for 3 weeks with my tang and no problems. Just don't use cupramine with any other meds except maybe prazipro.