anchor worms
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Actually the only Info necessary for now is...How Many?
Just some big ones at all...take some tweezers...
Many and esp. small ones...."Anchors away" containing Dimillin....
...but chemical treatment is alwas a risk and then more infos like claimed before are really very necessary!
Just some big ones at all...take some tweezers...
Many and esp. small ones...."Anchors away" containing Dimillin....
...but chemical treatment is alwas a risk and then more infos like claimed before are really very necessary!
he is in my 125g with other sout amerincans about 10 different ones the flower horn has 2 or3 worms on the left sid eof him
Really, if it´s just one fish with 3 Anchors, just pull them out...causing just a little wound...
A little Stress for that fish but none for the others.
If you don´t find any new ones in some time, that was it.
If you find some new, actually some plenty more new (if they are still some few go back to start
)...you still can practice some chemistry 
A little Stress for that fish but none for the others.
If you don´t find any new ones in some time, that was it.
If you find some new, actually some plenty more new (if they are still some few go back to start
)...you still can practice some chemistry A chemical always harms all fishes in a tank that is why I would never recommend if there is still a physical possibility...
The question always is if there already is some offspring....in most cases not if you find and remove as soon as possible, so there is no need for chemical treatment unless you are sure that you got hit by the next generation or the parental parasites are too many to remove.
So short answer for now: No
Examine all fishes and be sure that from your point of view there are only a few, take them, remove them and wait until you find new anchors or hopefully not.
That´s all
The question always is if there already is some offspring....in most cases not if you find and remove as soon as possible, so there is no need for chemical treatment unless you are sure that you got hit by the next generation or the parental parasites are too many to remove.
So short answer for now: No
Examine all fishes and be sure that from your point of view there are only a few, take them, remove them and wait until you find new anchors or hopefully not.
That´s all
The worms attached to the fish you see are females.
The males breed and die off.
Your tank could be full of free swimming female anchor worm, looking for host to attach.
Is this fish, newly aquired?
Have you bought feeders?
Have you aquired any other fish lately, thus the anchor worm infestation?
You might want to treat the whole tank, before you find small worms on all the fish.
The males breed and die off.
Your tank could be full of free swimming female anchor worm, looking for host to attach.
Is this fish, newly aquired?
Have you bought feeders?
Have you aquired any other fish lately, thus the anchor worm infestation?
You might want to treat the whole tank, before you find small worms on all the fish.
AndreR;992169; said:Cutting the head off is faster
OK for elaboration....
Cutting the fishes head off....
The point is:
Chemicals do harm the host!
If there is no other possibility a chemical treatment is OK, but in this moment it does not appear to be....not yet!
Anchors won´t kill the fishes immediately..or actually at all, so...
IF there are many little by offspring it is not too late to use chemicals and in that case the treatment claimed at the beginning.
But
IF it is enough to pull out those few, it would be too late not to harm the fishes just by using chemicals prophylactically.
SO it is always an individual decision to choose the right way or the dumb side of the force
Besides, the lifecycle at 28°C lasts for 7-10 days...
...a good opportunity to quarantine an empty tank
But the longer you think about it the less important the whole thing here gets...do something!