thanks! the fish will definitely be in QT for a while as I live more than 50 miles from a fish store. more than likely i'll order from F&S and get some food too.
Adding a Wild caught Carp to my tank?
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thanks! the fish will definitely be in QT for a while as I live more than 50 miles from a fish store. more than likely i'll order from F&S and get some food too.
so my wife picked up some "General Cure" from API that has Metronidazole and Praziquantel as active ingredients. says it treats gill and skin flukes, tapeworms and "parasites".
do you think it will do the trick?
do you think it will do the trick?
Yes, the Metro will treat most protozoans and the prazi will treat most worms including nematodes/trematodes. Prazi wont treat all species of worm infestations but I would say you would knock down 90% of possible parasites....
hey guys, thanks for all your advice.. yesterday I went out to catch the carp out of my stock tank. I couldn't get them with the fish net so I decided to just empty the tank. no carp...... no bones..... no nothing. now the water level was at least 8" below the rim and the tank is about 3ft deep so there was plenty of water.
so I went back in the house and asked my kids about it........ they had found the carp on the ground several feet from the tank, all dried out. so they tossed them to the chickens....... you gotta love farm kids!!!
I guess i'll wait until I get a bigger tank and go down a catch another one.....bummer
so I went back in the house and asked my kids about it........ they had found the carp on the ground several feet from the tank, all dried out. so they tossed them to the chickens....... you gotta love farm kids!!!
I guess i'll wait until I get a bigger tank and go down a catch another one.....bummer
No surprise it jumped. They are good jumpers and the new home would be deemed way too small by them.
As for parasites, it is indeed a risk, always a risk even after treatment and qt. No medication will kill all of pathogens and no med will kill entirely any one particular microscopic pathogen. With macroscopic it is quite possible though.
Metro + prazi would be best to be administered internally, with food. A long-term bath would be about 100th - 1000th of an efficiency of an internal administration. For external I'd use potassium permanganate, three 15 min baths 2 days apart. Let me know of you want to know the concentration. Carp can handle that no problem.
Flubendazole is banned, IIRC (maybe not) but Fenbendazole is a safer and more efficient alternative.
Bifuran (may be banned too) for gram-positive bacteria. Erythro for gram negative (oxytetracycline is the older generation alternative but erythro appears much better).
If the carp will go into an outside pond, which is already teeming with parasites, I'd scale down these efforts by 10x.
As for parasites, it is indeed a risk, always a risk even after treatment and qt. No medication will kill all of pathogens and no med will kill entirely any one particular microscopic pathogen. With macroscopic it is quite possible though.
Metro + prazi would be best to be administered internally, with food. A long-term bath would be about 100th - 1000th of an efficiency of an internal administration. For external I'd use potassium permanganate, three 15 min baths 2 days apart. Let me know of you want to know the concentration. Carp can handle that no problem.
Flubendazole is banned, IIRC (maybe not) but Fenbendazole is a safer and more efficient alternative.
Bifuran (may be banned too) for gram-positive bacteria. Erythro for gram negative (oxytetracycline is the older generation alternative but erythro appears much better).
If the carp will go into an outside pond, which is already teeming with parasites, I'd scale down these efforts by 10x.
