Deworming fish

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I'm currently deworming my arowanas, more for prevention.
I'm using Azoo Anti endoparasite, its instruction is to dose 10 ML pero 25 gallons.
Active ingredients is Mebendazole/Metronidazole.
Just wondering if ity'll be ok to soak food with it and feed to my arowanas?
I injected it into some superworms and fed it to my arowana, just wondering if this will also be effective?
 
Im de-worming my puffer using similar stuff...

I basically get a cup and defrost frozen shrimp or whatever in the cup with just tank water and about 4 doses of meds and let it soak...

After about 4 hours i feed it to my fish and it seems to be working coz shes been pooping a lot of 4-8" long worms

Now as for your method of injecting it straight into the food i'd be careful to not go overboard... Coz if its a full dose you dont know how your fish will react to the meds once ingested...


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Fat Homer said:
Im de-worming my puffer using similar stuff...

I basically get a cup and defrost frozen shrimp or whatever in the cup with just tank water and about 4 doses of meds and let it soak...

After about 4 hours i feed it to my fish and it seems to be working coz shes been pooping a lot of 4-8" long worms

Now as for your method of injecting it straight into the food i'd be careful to not go overboard... Coz if its a full dose you dont know how your fish will react to the meds once ingested...


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Thanks :) will observe my arowana :) so far she seems to be acting normally this is the first time i tries to deworm her, btw how many daya do you deqorm your fish? Will 1 dose be enough?


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One dose is definitely not enough IF your fish does have parasites...

Im now 10 days into deworming my puffer with 4 more days to go... So 2 weeks total...

But if your doing it just to be safe... Use one dose then monitor your aro for a day or two and see if there are any parasites being pooped out... If there are non... Then you might be okay with just one or two doses...


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Fat Homer said:
One dose is definitely not enough IF your fish does have parasites...

Im now 10 days into deworming my puffer with 4 more days to go... So 2 weeks total...

But if your doing it just to be safe... Use one dose then monitor your aro for a day or two and see if there are any parasites being pooped out... If there are non... Then you might be okay with just one or two doses...


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Thanks, Will repeat dose tonight and observe if there are worms in th poop :)
afterwards will use epsom salt :)
 
Sounds good to me... Nothing worst than dealing with parasites in your main tank...


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The main thing you have to do is soak the food in the medication. Since fish cannot absorb IP medication through their skin/scales, the meds must make it into their digestive system. Soaking the food is the best way to do this and I would def not recommend injecting it. 1 dose will for sure not be enough, I would say MINIMUM 2 week treatment.
 
bganulin said:
The main thing you have to do is soak the food in the medication. Since fish cannot absorb IP medication through their skin/scales, the meds must make it into their digestive system. Soaking the food is the best way to do this and I would def not recommend injecting it. 1 dose will for sure not be enough, I would say MINIMUM 2 week treatment.
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thanks :) So far have not noticed any worms come out oof my Arowana :)
 
Question... How do you know if your fish have worms... ??
Is this a standard procedure for fish???
Should all aquarium fish be de-wormed when you get them.??
 
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