I just noticed an anchor worm on my black aro. I was wondering if dimlin is a safe treatment for aros?
Anchor worm/Dimlin
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Thanks Koji. I already bought the dimlin so I will just use it. One other question I have is, it says to dose the tank, wait 2 weeks, dose again with no WC, then wait 2 more weeks. I was just wondering how important is it to wait all 4 weeks to do a WC, or can I do one at the 2 week mark?
Thanks Miguel. So you are saying that if I dosed the tank, waited 2 weeks did a wc, dosed again, then waited another 2 weeks. I wouldn't get all of the worms?
Heres what I found:
It is visible to the naked eye and the adult parasite may reach 12mm in length, with anchor like appendages at the head. It attaches to the fish and the anchor penetrates under the scale and into the muscle of the fish, where it feeds. This parasite reproduces by laying eggs, two egg sacs are produced at the end of the females body, the larvae hatch from these egg sacs and swim freely until they come into contact with a fish, they then commence the cycle again.
The parasite can cause serious damage to the fish where it penetrates the tissue. These wounds sometimes heal very slowly and if untreated become infected with bacteria and fungus, it is these secondary infections that cause the most risk to the koi.
To treat Anchor Worm you must treat the aquarium to sterilize the adults, this treatment should be repeated after seven days to ensure any eggs that were unhatched at the first treatment are now sterilized after hatching. Now all reproduction has been stopped. The treatment used is Dimilin.
Now the adults must all be removed from the koi. To do this you will need to sedate each koi individually and carefully remove the parasite with tweezers, making sure you remove the entire thing including the anchor part. Each entry wound should then topically treated. Check every fish in the aquarium to ensure none are missed.
If you have difficulty removing the Anchor worm, try dipping the ends of your tweezers in a potassium permanganate solution, this causes the parasite to release its grip.
So from what I understand the Dimilin does not kill the anchor worm, it just stops them from reproducing by sterilizing them. You than have to manually remove the parasites from the fish/tank.
As an option to using tweezers you can put the Aro in a 10 to 30 minute bath in 10 mg per liter of potassium permanganate to remove the anchor worm.
It is visible to the naked eye and the adult parasite may reach 12mm in length, with anchor like appendages at the head. It attaches to the fish and the anchor penetrates under the scale and into the muscle of the fish, where it feeds. This parasite reproduces by laying eggs, two egg sacs are produced at the end of the females body, the larvae hatch from these egg sacs and swim freely until they come into contact with a fish, they then commence the cycle again.
The parasite can cause serious damage to the fish where it penetrates the tissue. These wounds sometimes heal very slowly and if untreated become infected with bacteria and fungus, it is these secondary infections that cause the most risk to the koi.
To treat Anchor Worm you must treat the aquarium to sterilize the adults, this treatment should be repeated after seven days to ensure any eggs that were unhatched at the first treatment are now sterilized after hatching. Now all reproduction has been stopped. The treatment used is Dimilin.
Now the adults must all be removed from the koi. To do this you will need to sedate each koi individually and carefully remove the parasite with tweezers, making sure you remove the entire thing including the anchor part. Each entry wound should then topically treated. Check every fish in the aquarium to ensure none are missed.
If you have difficulty removing the Anchor worm, try dipping the ends of your tweezers in a potassium permanganate solution, this causes the parasite to release its grip.
So from what I understand the Dimilin does not kill the anchor worm, it just stops them from reproducing by sterilizing them. You than have to manually remove the parasites from the fish/tank.
As an option to using tweezers you can put the Aro in a 10 to 30 minute bath in 10 mg per liter of potassium permanganate to remove the anchor worm.
Will dimilin kill the good bacteria on my sump?
I just take out a big anchor worm from my arowana yesterday and today I see another 1 free swimming inside the tank. Very scared that it will be more and more.
I want to use medicine but thinking that it will destroy all my filter scare too.
I just take out a big anchor worm from my arowana yesterday and today I see another 1 free swimming inside the tank. Very scared that it will be more and more.
I want to use medicine but thinking that it will destroy all my filter scare too.
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No, it will not kill your biological filter from my experience. I had a bad case. It was out of neglect on my part as I'm not at that home all of the time. Each fish had at least a dozen. Dimilin did the trick. Didn't lose a single fish. I think it looks bad but it would take a lot of anchor worms to kill a large healthy fish. Keep picking the large worms off of your fish, Dimilin will do the trick they should be fine.
Thankyou bro,
will head to fish store and buy some dimlin now :3
forgot to ask, you put with filter running? still feed the fish or stop feeding? how about the water, decrease or not?