stupid flukes......

viggen

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I have been dealing with these stupid things for a few months now. Originally I had all my new fish in QT and did the proper dosing with prazipro with two doses 5 days apart and thought the flukes were dead. after having them in my qt for 6 weeks I added them all to my main tank which is 470 ish gallons. I believe the prazi I used in QT was old and expired..... I purchased new stuff for when I added it to the display tank

after another week or so I saw some of the fish fins being eaten and saw flukes on the eye of I think my Naso and Blue Face Angel. Instead of removing all fish I did another Prazi treatment in the main tank.

I did two doses which if I recall was 1 OZ which I think they stte treats 120g, so I did 4 cap fulls to treat the tank. after letting this go for about two weeks I started increasing my water changes to get the stuff out of the tank.

Yesterday I come home from work and see the face on my queen angel is all funky with stuff coming out around the eyes to the mouth area. I also see on my mata tang a area that is about 2in acros what looked like 100+ flukes where just hanging on the side coming out of his skin.

I added 4 caps of prazi to the tank yesterday, should I increase this dose or let it be? I figure I should do 3-4 treatments this time??

My last treatment my achilles, powder brown and gold rim died :( I can only do about 50-60gallon water changes at a time and was debating if I should do a daily water change and add another cap full of prazi daily?
 
Yep, it is 5mls per 20 gallons. So, your 470g tank needs approx. 120mls or 4ounces per treatment.
I treat my tanks with half the dose in the evening and the other half the next morning (seems less stressful for the fish). Then water change after 6-7 days and repeat the treatment as before.
 
Sorry... I kinda miss typed :) Didn't mean a cap full but when I purchased my first bottle of this stuff a year or two ago it came with a measuring cup which if I recall is one fl oz or something like that. Instructions state 1 fl oz per 120g which is what I did, 4 doses.

Didn't know if I should do a stronger dose? Or just continue with the 4oz of prazi ever week.... Maybe extend the dose to 4 treatments to hopefully kill the things
 

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