Emaciated fish... Hopeless or will it fill back out?

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I've starved my dats to the brink of death and they turned out just fine. I'm not sure if these tigers will be the same but I can tell you that I'd be treating that tank with prazipro.


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strollo22 said:
I've starved my dats to the brink of death and they turned out just fine. I'm not sure if these tigers will be the same but I can tell you that I'd be treating that tank with prazipro.


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Prazipro?

Meds aren't an area of expertise for me.

Off to Google!

Edit- Guess I'm making a LFS run tomorrow. Thanks man!
 
Prazi pro is one of the more mild yet effective ip treatments on the market. I treat all new fish with it. I believe that in order for a fish to look that emaciated in such a short amount of time, it may have some sort of ip


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strollo22 said:
Prazi pro is one of the more mild yet effective ip treatments on the market. I treat all new fish with it. I believe that in order for a fish to look that emaciated in such a short amount of time, it may have some sort of ip


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That does make sense. These two tigers have a significantly more ravenous appetite than any of the other tigers I've dealt with at this size.
 
I agree with Alex's advice. Do a 50% water change and good substrate vacuming before starting treatment, treat the whole tank. As an FYI if you can't find the Prazi you can use API general cure. It might take a couple of treatments so be patient. As an alturative you can do a fist round treatment with GC and a follow up treatment with prazi. GL.
 
Hi chicx. How are you?


I'm not a expert in fish health but if they are eating and can't restore the body condintion one of the most probable causes is a great load of parasites. Which parasite? I realy don't know because there are many kind of worms and protozoaries that could lead to a lost in weight and in mass.
If I was you...I'll try a broadspectrum approach of deworming (drugs that can handle with worms, flukes and protozoans. Probably first with praziquantel and after that with metronidazol.
Try to keep your fishes in the last stressfull ambient possible because stress can affect the imunity of the animal (cortisol effect) and this could be a invitation to more and more parasites.
Downsides: Of course that this kind of treatment could be too harsh for a fish in a poor conditions.


Sorry for my poor english.


Hails from Brazil


D.


P.S: There are other conditions that may lead to this scene..like metabolic disorders and others..but probably parasite infections are the most probable cause
 
Aquanero said:
I agree with Alex's advice. Do a 50% water change and good substrate vacuming before starting treatment, treat the whole tank. As an FYI if you can't find the Prazi you can use API general cure. It might take a couple of treatments so be patient. As an alturative you can do a fist round treatment with GC and a follow up treatment with prazi. GL.
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I actually like the API General Cure more then just strait Prazi as it contains both Prazi and Metro.

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Hi guys.


Sadly we don't have API General Cure here in Brazil. I can't say nothing about the effectiveness of this product....but I was reading at the API site and there is none prazi in its formulation, just:


sodium chloride
metronidazole
trichlorfon
silica amorphous, fumed, crystalline free
copper sulfate


I really like prazi because it's safe and effective. I really don't like to put any copper in my Dt because the potential problem with biofilter (cooper can affect some bacs, I'm not saying that it kill than all, but it causes some effects). I don't know the concentration of copper of this product and I don't know if it's ok to use in Dt. Probably I will prefer to do it in a Qt. Copper is very usefull to knuck some protozoans and other infective agents! By the way...some fishes (at least saltwater fishes) are very sensives to copper.
I never used Trichlorfon with fishes, just with snakes as baths to knock out external parasites, it's pretty effective in this animals. It's a organphosphorate with a good effective against some pests too. But take care because it's carcinogenic! Of course that it isn't a rapid contact that will cause cancer but we have to paid attention to this fact.


Good luck...keep us informed!


Apologies for my terrible english


Hails


D.
 
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