Total System Levasole Planaria Kill Recipe

[Ptt911]

I tried searching and found a couple people asking this question but did not find an answer.

I found a place that sell the levasole tablet for sheep. Will this work for flatworm and is it safe? The concentration is 0.184gram per tablet. Lets say if I want to test, how much levasole should I add per gallon? Thanks.

 

[knockout]

I tried searching and found a couple people asking this question but did not find an answer.

I found a place that sell the levasole tablet for sheep. Will this work for flatworm and is it safe? The concentration is 0.184gram per tablet. Lets say if I want to test, how much levasole should I add per gallon? Thanks.

just get it from Charlie, inkmkr just a few post before this one...

 

[knockout]

just to follow up on my experience so far... no sign of worms since Wednesday, all livestock is accounted for, couple are missing but I think they were missing before the treatment!

 

[inkmaker]

I tried searching and found a couple people asking this question but did not find an answer.

I found a place that sell the levasole tablet for sheep. Will this work for flatworm and is it safe? The concentration is 0.184gram per tablet. Lets say if I want to test, how much levasole should I add per gallon? Thanks.

That tablet is the first I tried for parasitic Nematodes. It really, REALLY made a mess in my fresh water tank. I learned a lot from that experience. Check out the information on http://www.inkmkr.com/Fish/

 

[ronbis]

I tried treating with flatworm exit twice, but a small amount of flatworms survived. Does this mean that I have to up the potency of levasole to kill them since they may have an immunity to whatever is in flatworm exit?

 

[inkmaker]

I tried treating with flatworm exit twice, but a small amount of flatworms survived. Does this mean that I have to up the potency of levasole to kill them since they may have an immunity to whatever is in flatworm exit?

NO! If you got the Levamisole from me, it is the pure compound and the potency could surprise you. It is the same active ingredient in XIT but 100%. Follow the instructions in this thread - go back and re-read the posts until you understand what has been done before.
Just be careful with the stuff, watch the fish and be ready to do water change and have lots of Charcoal ready to eliminate it from the water.

Charles H

 

[kube]

another successful treatment here.....i followed the original recipe used inkmakers 5 grams to 2 cups of water...enought to treat 400 gallons...used 3/4 a cup (150g dose) and after a few hours i cant find a single flatworm in the tank......now my question....all fish are fine and I didn't have many flatworms in the tank (i pulled on the rock out a week ago and treated it with flatworm exit that i got from a fellow reefer for free to knock out as many as possible and keep the toxin release when they die to minimum..which worked out very well)

So do I need to do a follow up does to make sure there are none left?

when should i do a water change now? give it 24 hours? should I start carbon right now? my plan is to give it 24 hours in the system than start running duel reactors with a few pounds of carbon and a large water change...any need to do start now?

 

[inkmaker]

KUBE,
If it were my system, I would change out the water and not leave it over night. These Planarian are very sensitive, so are a lot of other animals in the tank. Levamisole is serious.

If you find any Planaria in a few weeks you can always come back with another treatment.

 

[DHaut]

I too have tried FWE and it failed me. So has my 6-line. My system is a bit unique - I have two linked custom displays with a total volume of 27 gallons w/ about 20 lbs. of rock. Since I always sucked at chemistry, what dosage of levamisole would be needed to take the little buggers out? How do you guys convert grams into something like teaspoons? I don't have a medical scale or anything to weigh the meds. I've been sucking these out with every water change for months now and I'm at my wits end - this solution is like a light at the end of a dark tunnel.


Edit: Inkmaker, I sent a request through your site for a 5 gram packet. Here's to hoping this works!

 

[CleveYank]

In my very 1st post on this thread I explain the 1/2 teaspoon rational as well as why I used ml for the dosing.

1/2 teaspoon dry measure (everyone has one)
Used 240ml since it would make it heaps easier to dose a small tank with that rather than attempt to take 1 cup liquid measure to divide it out to for example dose a 5 gallon tank.

So concentration of 1/2 T to 240 ml of RO/DI would get you something that at that concentration could be dosed at 1ml per gallon of actual system volume. If you can add the gallons then you easily know the exact dosage in milliliters for a 1 ml per gallon or a 1.5 ml per gallon dosage without just guessing. I made it easy and foolproof. If you follow my recipe you will not fail. Read the 1st post and make sure you can run carbon and or do water changes if your population is bigger than you thought it was. Upon doing 1st dosage, this comes to full light once they start coming out during the death throes.

Good Luck and if you have any further questions don't hesitate to post, but the 1st post at the very beginning should cover all the bases.

Cheers.

 

[DHaut]

Thanks Cleve - I'll give it a shot.

 

[CleveYank]

After I posted I saw there is some wierd ½ symbol where there is supposed to be just a 1/2 Teaspoon. Looks like there was some type of format mismatch when they converted this to the new forum software. No wonder I've been gettting PM's of request for the recipe. DOH! Guess I'll have to put in a request to management to repair that.

 

[DHaut]

haha - yeah, I wasn't going to say anything after you reiterated it a couple posts up. no worries.

 

[CleveYank]

haha - yeah, I wasn't going to say anything after you reiterated it a couple posts up. no worries.

I guess I live to reiterate the iteration that I iterated before.
Or something like that...

I've been getting PM's every now and then. And there's been posts requesting clarity. I was thinking to myself....what has everyone lost the ability to read and comprehend or something? LOL Too damn funny.

Darn ghosts in the machine.:hammer:

 

[DHaut]

Ok, so I just dosed 1ml/gallon and killed off the majority of the FW. As they were dying I was sucking them out. After about 15 min. of the levimasole being in the water, I began replacing the water I had sucked out and then added carbon. I probably replaced 20% of my total tank volume between 15 min. and 45 min. after dosing. I still see a few FW on the glass alive. Did I not leave the full strength of 1 ml/gal Lev. in the tank long enough to kill all the FW? I planned to suck out whatever FW I see still hanging around tomorrow and re-dose at 1.5ml/gal. Good idea, or should I wait a week or two?

 

[DHaut]

I think the plan is to dose the .3ml maintenance dose today, suck out all the FWs I see, do a couple water changes this week to remove as much of the Lev. as I can, and re-dose at 1.5ml/g strength next weekend. Then rinse and repeat for the next couple weeks to make sure.

 

[CleveYank]

I think the plan is to dose the .3ml maintenance dose today, suck out all the FWs I see, do a couple water changes this week to remove as much of the Lev. as I can, and re-dose at 1.5ml/g strength next weekend. Then rinse and repeat for the next couple weeks to make sure.

That's should be fine. If they are hit hard on the 1st dose you can probably just get away with 1ml per gallon on the re-dose, but you should be fine on the 1.5 as my trial had indicated. If you are really at "actual" system volume then the 1.5 is fine. Getting into higher amounts and if there's a degree of error with your actual net system gallons you could get things close to over dosing would be my only caution.

 

[DHaut]

Good point - I'll stick with 1ml/gallon for the next two weeks and monitor the effect. If by the third week there are still FW, I will increase to 1.5.

 

[CleveYank]

Good point - I'll stick with 1ml/gallon for the next two weeks and monitor the effect. If by the third week there are still FW, I will increase to 1.5.

Just like cooking you can always add, but its really hard to subtract once "it's in there"!

 

[shazeone]

hi everyone, i am a new B to RC. I am going to be going threw either the levasole or FWE treatment soon. I have a fairly minor outbreak right now , but they are on the rise and want to stop them before they are out of control. problem right now though is i am going through red bug treatment, on 2nd week. i have been manually removing them with siphon method right now. have a couple questions , but any input welcomed.

Thanks all, Nate

A- if i am going to be doing a 20% water change at the end of my red bug treatment, would treating the flat worms at the same time be o.k?
B- At this point can anyone say that the Lavasole treatment is more effective then FWE ?
C- How many treatments would be most effective for maximum flatworm removal?

Thanks for having this thread, as it is great that one can find use full info from others.