Adding fish to a tank that had or has callamanus?

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koh the face stealer

koh the face stealer

Jack Dempsey
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Jun 12, 2011
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Some of you may remember my battle against callamanus that I lost my green severum to. I've been so depressed walking into my room to see basically an empty 55 gallon that is inhabited by a longfin albino bristlenose pleco and a clown pleco. I miss my severum and every time I walk through my lfs I look at the severums and even furthers the pain of my loss and the pain of my ignorance.

I was going through the lfs last week and seen a big gold severum and a flicker of joy sparked when he came to greet me at the front of the tank.... Anyways I want another severum and I don't know how I should go about this with the recent problem I had with this specific tank he would be going in. The plecos that are in the tank have no signs of this parasite and it's been almost a month since the departure of my favorite fish.

How do I go about doing this? Do I treat the tank prior to bringing in a new fish? Bring in the new fish and treat him and the tank at the same time as I'd have to treat him anyway? Or do I just bring him home and hope for the best?

What do I do?!?!?!?!

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Tear the tank down, temporarily house the plecos, rinse out the sand aggressively, rinse the out all the filter media/tubes, add all new water, rinse all the driftwood in hot water and after replacing everything back in the tank run a course of fendbendazole or levamisole with the new fish or before the new fish?



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Treat the tank wait two weeks add new fish. I wouldn't tear the whole tank down.
 
Clean your filters do a good substrate cleaning perform a couple of large water changes, over 100% in total. Treat for a week and waite 2 weeks after treatment doing water changes and substrate vacuming. You should be good after that. If that doesn't do it, get a hand granade ;)..............GL.
 
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