Total System Levasole Planaria Kill Recipe

[inkmaker]

Here is a photo:

Since I started treating, only the first time I saw the little buggers disappear. Since then I've now dosed 4 times (in 6 days), and they just sit on the glass in almost-coma. If I poke them, they move, but that's all.

On the other hand all bristle worms are RIP. The two frags I have don't seem to mind the probably 10 grams of Levamisole I have now in my 55G of water.

inkmaker, didn't know FWE is a solution of Levamisole. Too bad, I might have to kill everything again and restart the tank once more.

When I posted earlier, I put in 120 drops of FWE + 2.5g of Levamisole dissolved in about 100g of fresh water (again, total volume in my tank is 55G).

I might end up dumping the entire packet of Levamisole I have (40g left, I'd guess) and see how it goes

One thing I know, I'm not starting a tank with flatworms in it!

Sooner or Later We are going to come up with medication resistant organisms. You may have reached that point.

Is the Levamisole you have the pure compound?

Charles H

 

[terahz]

Ok I just put together 10g of lev into 200ml of fresh water and I started by putting .5ml of that in 2 cups of tank water plus a couple of flatworms in there. 30 min later - nothing. added another .5ml. 30 min later - worms look like they are ****ed but still kicking. Added another 1ml of solution. 2hrs after the first dose they appear dead. So for 55G of water, that should be... about 66grams of lev ... damn! don't have that much. But have about 40. Duping it all in in my tank and will leave it there overnight. If that doesn't kill them so much for flatworm meds.


EDIT: I use Prohibit Levamisole Hydrochloride powder

EDIT2: here goes nothing, 45g of levamisole hydrochloride went inside my tank I'll let you know tomorrow if I have super worms or not.

 

[buckster]

If anyone needs any Prohibit Levamisole Drench Powder I have two new, unopened packets that I do not need anymore. PM me if you are interested.

 

[zachtos]

I've been fighting a nasty phosphate issue since the death of a massive amount of worms, but no real losses of note from the treatment after 2 months or so.

 

[Bladez]

Ok - I've been in this hobby for 25 years and never had a flatworm problem. However, I have somehow introduced these pests to my system (probably with the addition of 250 snails that I didn't inspect individually). So I need to treat my system - 500 gallons of actual water volume.

I live in central farm land USA and need to get the correct product to do this right the first time. There seems to be some recent confusion about product availability and or brand so can someone please suggest a course of treatment - vendor, product brand and quantity that I should treat with? I want to do this ASAP "“ like this week!!

I'm not at plague proportions but I want to "œnip it in the bud" before they get to an annoying level. The first pic is the just the pest that I could find on a few pieces of my live rock. The second is an area of low current on one end of my tank. I have noticed more spread out in various other locations but not in high concentrations.

My system is 200 gallon display, 120 nem tank and a 300 gallon sump... Actual water volume is estimated at 500 gallons.

 

[Bladez]

Testing this product on a few hundred that I siphoned out of my tank into a bucket.... It seems to be working - half have exploded and leaked out their orange body fluid and the ones remaining are running around like they are trying to escape the inevitable!! Do I feel bad - NO!!

Ok - I've been in this hobby for 25 years and never had a flatworm problem. However, I have somehow introduced these pests to my system (probably with the addition of 250 snails that I didn't inspect individually). So I need to treat my system - 500 gallons of actual water volume.

I live in central farm land USA and need to get the correct product to do this right the first time. There seems to be some recent confusion about product availability and or brand so can someone please suggest a course of treatment - vendor, product brand and quantity that I should treat with? I want to do this ASAP "“ like this week!!

I'm not at plague proportions but I want to "œnip it in the bud" before they get to an annoying level. The first pic is the just the pest that I could find on a few pieces of my live rock. The second is an area of low current on one end of my tank. I have noticed more spread out in various other locations but not in high concentrations.

My system is 200 gallon display, 120 nem tank and a 300 gallon sump... Actual water volume is estimated at 500 gallons.

 

[442]

So where can we buy this prohibit?

 

[aquafresh]

i found some Levamisole Hydrochloride by prohibitâ„¢ Soluble Drench on ebay. can i use this stuff to kill red flatworms and if so is its the same ratio (1/2 teaspoon in 240mL of water) by adding 1-1.5mL per gallon

 

[aquafresh]

It is still effective in the Cattle Drench form.
And a vet can still get you the real pig and sheep stuff.

You can even legally order it from overseas vendors. It's not a controlled substance. They just made it harder to get. Which for the drug suppliers that were cutting their drugs with it, makes it just enough of a pain to obtain so they've moved onto something else more than likely.

So the recipe still works and the stuff is still available. There is also a freshwater fish use for this for clown loaches and a company with those articles will sell you the stuff too. Since the freshwater and saltwater hobbyist generally does not use it in the volume required in the drug trade, it's probably pretty easy for the government to monitor and enforce now.
Anyway, Google and you will find it.

i found some Levamisole Hydrochloride by prohibitâ„¢ Soluble Drench on ebay. can i use this stuff to kill red flatworms and if so is its the same ratio (1/2 teaspoon in 240mL of water) by adding 1-1.5mL per gallon

 

[Bladez]

FYI - I treated my tank with Lanthanum chloride (see link below) to help reduce phosphates and it killed every one of my flat worms. I never had to treat with the Levasole even though I purchased the product and was ready to use it.

In my experience the Lanthanum is easy to use.

Here is the Lanthanum thread.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=21222433#post21222433

 

[Bladez]

Not trying to sidetrack this thread but I would like to know if anyone else has had success in eliminating flatworms with this process... Please chime in if you have.

FYI - I treated my tank with Lanthanum chloride (see link below) to help reduce phosphates and it killed every one of my flat worms. I never had to treat with the Levasole even though I purchased the product and was ready to use it.

In my experience the Lanthanum is easy to use.

Here is the Lanthanum thread.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=21222433#post21222433

 

[aquafresh]

i already bought some Levamisole Hydrochloride by prohibitâ„¢ Soluble Drench and will be treating my tank with this stuff. just wanted to know if this will be the same ratio 1/2teaspoon to 240ml of rodi water. i should receive the levamisole by friday. so hopefully over the weekend i can dose my tank. tank size is 20L with 10gallon refugium. meanwhile i will try to siphon as much fw as possible. BTW i have tried the salifert flatworm exist and it did not do nothing to my flatworms. dosed it twice so i just gave up on it. so hopefully this levamisole by prohibit does the job.
livestock=sps, soft corals, lps, serpent star(will remove it from DT when i do the treatment), two clown, chromis and snails.

 

[aquafresh]

should i treat.

should i treat.

i received the levamisole by prohibit today. i mixed 1/2 teaspoon into 240ml rodi water and shook it good. i took some flatworms and put them in a container smaller than one cup. i put one drop of the solution i made and nothing happen so i put in another drop into the small container and i let it sit for an hour. the flatworms were still there and moving like nothing happen. then i added about 1ml and the flat worms were still moving. now i don't know if i should even dose the solution to my tank because i know that the solution wasn't affective against flatworms in water smaller than one cup. what do you guys think i should do

 

[aquafresh]

anyone? can someone please help!!

 

[Ron Reefman]

I can't help with the dosage issue, but I have a flatworm population started so I'll be following along. Please keep posting your results.

 

[aquafresh]

well i build up the courage and dosed the solution in. i used 1 teaspoon per 250 ml and dosed the tank 30 ml. i also added 12 drops of flatworm solution from aquavision. the results are....THEY ARE STILL ALIVE. i must have some really hardy flatworms. the medication was in there for about 40 mins then i started to notices that some small brittle stars were floating instead of the flatworms. so i did a quick water change and added fresh carbon.

 

[dorado_bite]

Following along

 

[1fishkeeper]

Just did my dose a couple of mins ago. It looks like its snowing rusty brown snow flakes in my tank. I didn't think that I had them that bad until they are started to die off and get blown around.

 

[inkmaker]

Just did my dose a couple of mins ago. It looks like its snowing rusty brown snow flakes in my tank. I didn't think that I had them that bad until they are started to die off and get blown around.

Don't leave the Levamisole in the system more than 8 hours!
You must change out most of the water and add Charcoal to the filtration system to save the Corals, etc.

You need to remember that these worms lay eggs and they need a repeat dosage in 2 or 3 weeks to kill off the fresh hatch.

Charles H

 

[1fishkeeper]

I did a water change about 4 hours after I dosed. I also changed my carbon and started running it after the water change. Everything is looking good but my blonde naso is kind of dark and just sitting at the bottom not moving a lot. I will do another dose next week then a third in two weeks just to make sure I got all of them.