Feeders pretreatment. What should I do?
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Quarantine of any fish means the fish are monitored for any symptoms of disease. Once the tank/fish is dosed with medication, the tank becomes a treatment tank not a quarantine tank.
If feeders in a quarantine tank display symptoms of a parasite, treat for that parasite. Otherwise, if the fish appear to be healthy during their quarantine regimen, simply gut-load them with an enriched flake or pellet food prior to feeding them to your main display predators. The gut-loading will provide nutrition to your predators that their sacrifice alone won't supply.
If feeders in a quarantine tank display symptoms of a parasite, treat for that parasite. Otherwise, if the fish appear to be healthy during their quarantine regimen, simply gut-load them with an enriched flake or pellet food prior to feeding them to your main display predators. The gut-loading will provide nutrition to your predators that their sacrifice alone won't supply.
Great advice as always from Oddball.I keep a feeder tank and every incoming feeder fish is treated as if it might be loaded with parasites.They are fed and medicated and luckily I only have one fish that eats them.
Hi krich
I already have a red tail payara, a black aro and two tapajós pikes, but I'll purchase a pack of acestrorhynchus and a pack of boulengerella as son as possible.
I'm using guppys, lebistes, platys, geophagos brasiliensis and a few goldfishes to my predators
I like the prazi approach. Sadly we don have prazipro here in Brazil and it's very hard to find pure praziquantel medicines so I'm thinking about to use a vet medicine that conjugates praziquantel with albendazol. What do you think?
Hi oddbal! I was reading your thread about the use of feeder and nutrition content. Congratulations it is very informative!
Generally I make preventive medications (dewormers and others) in any animal that enters in our bioterium. By the way... I don't work with fishes but with snakes..
I know what you means when you said: treatment tank. But let's be honest with each other thats just a matter of ethmology because if we follow the term quarantine exactly...every one here should keep the feeders isolated for 40 days am I wrong?
I really like to pretreat animals. I'm a vet and I'm feel more confortable with medicines. I don't think that I have enough experience with feeders to discriminate who is healthy and who is sick...so I feel more confortable doing some profilatic treatment.
This is my first predator tank! I was involved with saltwater aquariums and sps reefcorals for a long time...everything is new to me in this hobby! I'm very happy to participate this forum and learn something new!
By the way...off topic...my reef aquarium: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2083948
Sorry for my poor english...
Hails from Brazil!
D.
I already have a red tail payara, a black aro and two tapajós pikes, but I'll purchase a pack of acestrorhynchus and a pack of boulengerella as son as possible.
I'm using guppys, lebistes, platys, geophagos brasiliensis and a few goldfishes to my predators
I like the prazi approach. Sadly we don have prazipro here in Brazil and it's very hard to find pure praziquantel medicines so I'm thinking about to use a vet medicine that conjugates praziquantel with albendazol. What do you think?
Hi oddbal! I was reading your thread about the use of feeder and nutrition content. Congratulations it is very informative!
Generally I make preventive medications (dewormers and others) in any animal that enters in our bioterium. By the way... I don't work with fishes but with snakes..
I know what you means when you said: treatment tank. But let's be honest with each other thats just a matter of ethmology because if we follow the term quarantine exactly...every one here should keep the feeders isolated for 40 days
am I wrong?I really like to pretreat animals. I'm a vet and I'm feel more confortable with medicines
. I don't think that I have enough experience with feeders to discriminate who is healthy and who is sick...so I feel more confortable doing some profilatic treatment.This is my first predator tank! I was involved with saltwater aquariums and sps reefcorals for a long time...everything is new to me in this hobby! I'm very happy to participate this forum and learn something new!
By the way...off topic...my reef aquarium: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2083948
Sorry for my poor english...
Hails from Brazil!
D.
Well,it's good to have a member who is vet...you certainly know more about any medications than I can tell you lol.
Welcom to MFK. Your English is much better than my Portuguese. Nice to have you as a member.
Albendazol is simlar to Flubendazole a broad spectrum anthelmintic. Not very common here and a little harsher than Praziquantel IMO but an effective med.
Albendazol is simlar to Flubendazole a broad spectrum anthelmintic. Not very common here and a little harsher than Praziquantel IMO but an effective med.
Hi Decoy... sadly we don't have any of this foods here.
Our government it's really hard with fish medicines, almost all are prohibited for our "health agency". It's a shame!!!
But it's ok. I'll give a chance to this prazi + albendazol to my feeders and let see how it works.
D.