TTM with prazipro treatment

[shane reef]

I have a question on the TTM for the fish, can you treat with prazipro while in process to help with other parasites that may be present? If I do this will I still need to OT fish for observation? How long and why? Also will TTM work on inverts and corals, want to prevent them from being the source of ICK getting into the system. Just want to have my OT plan together before I start buying anything. My DT is ready to go and now time to start the process of OT. Thanks in advance

 

[microlady]

I have a question on the TTM for the fish, can you treat with prazipro while in process to help with other parasites that may be present? If I do this will I still need to OT fish for observation? How long and why? Also will TTM work on inverts and corals, want to prevent them from being the source of ICK getting into the system. Just want to have my OT plan together before I start buying anything. My DT is ready to go and now time to start the process of OT. Thanks in advance

From what I understand, TTM only works for fish. Prazi can be used with it or after it. All inverts, rocks, etc. must be quarantined for 72 days to be on the safe side.

 

[Deinonych]

From what I understand, TTM only works for fish. Prazi can be used with it or after it. All inverts, rocks, etc. must be quarantined for 72 days to be on the safe side.

Correct. TTM works by preventing cyst formation, and thus the release of new infective stages. If you combine prazi with TTM, dose on the 1st and 3rd transfers.

 

[microlady]

If you wait until after TTM to dose Prazi, what is the best method? I've read that Prazi can suppress appetite so I'm trying to limit the stress during TTM. My fish are eating fine now so I might wait until the fish are in the quarantine tank before I use it. Is it one dose, and then another dose in 5 days? I guess I could read the instructions on the bottle, but I'd like advice too.

Thanks!

 

[Spar]

If you wait until after TTM to dose Prazi, what is the best method? I've read that Prazi can suppress appetite so I'm trying to limit the stress during TTM. My fish are eating fine now so I might wait until the fish are in the quarantine tank before I use it. Is it one dose, and then another dose in 5 days? I guess I could read the instructions on the bottle, but I'd like advice too.

Thanks!

i have never personally experienced the appetite suppression, but I guess it is possible.

when doing it afterwards, you just need at least 5 days to pass before the 2nd dose. the 2nd dose is required because the eggs will survive the first round, but will have hatched within 5 days. I personally do 7 days between...

flukes are easy because they don't sexually mature for several weeks, so even if you allowed well more than 5 days to pass, the 2nd round would be just as effective.

do a 25-50% water change between doses.

 

[Duke4life]

As someone who had never used PraziPro before until Monday, it does work and fish never changed habits, minus my eel who went on a short hunger strike. I did loose a cleaner shrimp during this past dose.

 

[Louis Z]

I still do tank transfer method on inverts. Yes they are not fish and no they do not become infected but I don't want anything coming in to the display tank from the fish stores water that I originally brought the inverts in. Looking at every fish store and I can see they have some disease or parasite being passed in their connected tanks. I hardly ever see anyone treat the infected fish. They also put fish in the coral tanks . So I bought some mushrooms and they got a new shipment of fish so they dumped in the mushroom tank. When I saw only mushrooms in this isolated system, I thought how nice they don't contaminate their invert tanks with fish . I was wrong. So it's good to QT everything. Yes it's a PITA but you more than likely save on money and headaches . Even after TTT method I still isolate up to 3 months . That still is PITA but again very much worth it. Many things don't show themselves within the first two weeks .

 

[Louis Z]

With fish I usually wait to do prazipro after TTM . I also FW dip Inbetween tank transfers. I also treat with the lower recommended dose of chloroquine in each of the tanks while in in TTM . I think it's enough stress on the fish being in a bare tank and being moved and shocked with FW And treated with chloroquine . I don't want to add a fourth treatment. I do include the days spent in TTM as part of the 3 month overall QT.

 

[Louis Z]

I have to amend . I just had theFW dip fail in preventing possible brooklynella . I am now moving toward quick cure dip 28 to 35 drops per gallon for 1 to 1.5 hours at very beginning before TTM .

 

[Newsmyrna80]

FW dips will not prevent Brook. 1 hr to 1 1/2 hr formalin dip is too long. A dip done for 45 minutes with 21 drops/gal is more than sufficient for treating Brook. These dips can be done every other day.

 

[Louis Z]

Thank you. Newsmyrna , I have been waiting for a response on dosage. I just couldn't remember dosing and trying to do a search on quick cure leads to huge amt of posts to wade thru. No one had responded to my earlier question. So I had to guess from what I read along time ago . As for FW dip on brook , I read in posts where it was possible to reduce amt of infection. So I had notion of FW being used for fluke removal and brook reduction . Brooklynella got by me on my recent acquisition after initial FW dip. I had to amend my "new arrival QT treatment protocol". I have now moved the quick cure dip to the very first line of defense. Then TTM modified with chloroquine being dosed at same time . I will move FW dip toward the end because the fluke removal doesn't seem as pressing . I am trying to develop the new arrival protocol because this has happened to me twice before. I have had fish dying on me within first week of receiving them. Waiting for symptoms to show up is no longer in my protocol. It seems it's too late by then. Straight out of the bag from LFS they go thru treatment to kill brooklynella , velvet, and ick

 

[snorvich]

FW dips will not prevent Brook. 1 hr to 1 1/2 hr formalin dip is too long. A dip done for 45 minutes with 21 drops/gal is more than sufficient for treating Brook. These dips can be done every other day.

This.

 

[Chicago]

i have my fish going through ttm.. i change it every 24 hours in the am... so can i do a prazi pro for 24 hours like twice or 3 times.