deuxe,
Sorry to hear about the juvies giving way to hexamita. Unfortunately as I have learned over the years this is almost expected with juvenile ebjd, especially if you have ever fed them frozen foods of any kind. For whatever reason there weak immune systems can't normally handle the frozen foods until they get older. I thought no ebjd could consume frozen foods until I received EBJD from Rick Coye and I will tell you those could eat anything as a normal J.D. I have had a couple of hardier lines of Blues that can handle the frozen foods from Hikari at juvie size(1.5-2.5). I would stay away from Sanfran. Bay bloodworms at all cost, as they are just plain dirty worms. I have tried every treatment from soaking black worms in epsom salt, to very high doses of metro treating infected juvies with hex.(a.k.a.white stringy feces) and have never seen a solution. Now, with hardier species of cichlid these same methods can be used with great success, but with the ebjd, it takes on a whole new level of difficulty The problem is the hex. can live in the gravel and the fish will eat it and it spreads like wild fire, once one blue gets infected if he is not removed immediatly, it want be long and you will see all are infected. I am at the point now where I just want feed any frozen foods until they reach 3+ inches because of there painfully weak immune systems. I have talked to a couple of breeders who will still feed Hikari frozen blood worms at a young age as one of there staple foods, they are very clean worms, but there is still risk involved. Did you feed any frozen food by chance?
Sorry to hear about the juvies giving way to hexamita. Unfortunately as I have learned over the years this is almost expected with juvenile ebjd, especially if you have ever fed them frozen foods of any kind. For whatever reason there weak immune systems can't normally handle the frozen foods until they get older. I thought no ebjd could consume frozen foods until I received EBJD from Rick Coye and I will tell you those could eat anything as a normal J.D. I have had a couple of hardier lines of Blues that can handle the frozen foods from Hikari at juvie size(1.5-2.5). I would stay away from Sanfran. Bay bloodworms at all cost, as they are just plain dirty worms. I have tried every treatment from soaking black worms in epsom salt, to very high doses of metro treating infected juvies with hex.(a.k.a.white stringy feces) and have never seen a solution. Now, with hardier species of cichlid these same methods can be used with great success, but with the ebjd, it takes on a whole new level of difficulty The problem is the hex. can live in the gravel and the fish will eat it and it spreads like wild fire, once one blue gets infected if he is not removed immediatly, it want be long and you will see all are infected. I am at the point now where I just want feed any frozen foods until they reach 3+ inches because of there painfully weak immune systems. I have talked to a couple of breeders who will still feed Hikari frozen blood worms at a young age as one of there staple foods, they are very clean worms, but there is still risk involved. Did you feed any frozen food by chance?
