Started Prazi in QT and then saw Crypto spots

[Swensos]

Did I do the right thing?

Planned QT protocol: Feed and observe for one week. Remove carbon. Dose prazi for flukes, wait seven days, dose again. Wait seven days, add carbon. 6 weeks of hypo. Observe.

However, 24 hours after the first Prazi treatment (fish have been eating extremely well for a week), my lubbock's wrasse showed white crypto spots. Because the Prazi had 24 hours to do its thing, I dropped in carbon, waited 8 hours, and have now started to reduce the salinity for hypo.

The wrasse has been pooping out white, probably from the Prazi treatment, but I think getting the salinity low to address the Ich is more important than the second Prazi dose at the moment. I will have to wait through 6 weeks of Hyposalinity before restarting Prazi, right?

Thank you

 

[Swensos]

I'm going to guess, since no one said, "no, you dummy, your fish will die from internal parasites in those 4-6 weeks," I'm doing the right thing by switching to hypo to address the ich. :thumbsup:

 

[Khazmodain]

I thought you could do hypo and prazi together. Might want to get confirmation on that before proceeding, but I was fairly confident prazi and chloroquine phosphate were both safe during hypo (but not copper).

I'd also be concerned about the wrasse pooping white. That sounds like a sign of an intestinal parasite rather than a symptom caused by prazi.

 

[Dmorty217]

You can use hypo and Prazi together. I would avoid CP with wrasse, even though some don't seem to be bothered by it

 

[homer1475]

Why not use TTM for the crypto and prazi during TTM? Just seems easier then trying to maintain hypo.

 

[Swensos]

Thanks for chiming in, everyone! I hate dealing with diseases alone, because of my inexperience.

After dosing the Prazi, the lubbocks wrasse easily passed some white turds, but they weren't long and stringy, making me think he was passing what the Prazi killed.

I'd read on Reef'd Up's "Demystifying the Leopard Wrasse" not to mix hypo and Prazi. That's where I copied my QT protocol from. Maybe not mixing treatment is just for sensitive species like the leopard wrasse? Or maybe, when the article was written, 2012, not much was known about the interactions between the two. I still have a couple days until the next Prazi treatment is due, so I am open to trying it if experienced reefers have had no bad interactions, since one of my fish in QT is showing signs of multiple infections.

I don't do TTM, because I have cats who looove to try and eat fish in buckets, I don't have enough equipment to go through the drying and sterilizing, and my wife would kill me if I had buckets of fish in our small place. The QT tank is in her office. Plus, I have a ATO on my QT since I'm paranoid about the slightest change killing my fish.