HELP PLEASE! Bloated eel with purple veins showing!

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I'm assumeing your feeding frozen blood worms.... they will cause impactions. I would also pick up some Prazi-pro. I've never used Epsom salts.. and I would agree with the info of Not useing "Salt" with loaches and scaless fish in general. Nightcrawlers have never given me problems with my spineys ( atm I own 4. 3 M dayii, and 1 starry night). I had impactin issues once with a fire eel, and that was from IPs.. Prazi-pro helped clear them up. I did catch it early, so i don't know if the epsoms are the best option or not. IMO I would try Prazi first but have the Epsoms on hand. 24-48 hours you should see a difference after treating w/ Prazi... but the full effects won't be apparente for up to 14 days. GL with whatever you do.. but I do agree.. Do something.
 
I'm going to stick with the treatment I've been advised on by clockwork, because with your info then I'm recieving a third completely different treatment method and I'm really not okay with constantly switching what I'm being told to do. I will keep your advice in mind if the salts don't work. As for bloodworms causing impactions... I've never seen that but I'll keep it in mind. Thank you.
 
Clockwork, I read the majority of that thread and I got to the part where frozen foods don't soak up the solution. I'm assuming water-heavy earthworms won't either. How am I supposed to feed my eels the solution if the only foods they eat don't work with the treatment? I couldn't possibly force it down their throats.

Also it seems like only one is really veiny and fat, the other seems mostly normal. I thought it was both, but the other is only slightly plump last time I looked. I should check the veiny one to see if anything changed, when he comes out I'll report.
 
I like prazi as a dewormer as well. You just have to realize medicating fish at home isn't an exact science... We don't have the equipment or the knowledge to 100% ID most diseases, we generally just narrow it down (when it isn't something simple like ich) to "internal parasites," "bacterial infection," etc., because those blanket diagnoses generally respond to the same medications.
So what's going on with your fish? Is it simple constipation or internal parasites? My experience with spiny eels leads me to guess it probably is an internal parasite issue.

So, if you can't get the eels to ingest Epsom salt, try dosing it in the water (will act as a mild laxative and help "clear" them out) and try prazi too. I have never seen a fish have a bad reaction to either one, seen plenty of sting rays get dewormed with prazi (very sensitive and expensive fish) and be just fine.

Good luck!


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Grr, alright. I'll dose. Maybe try soaking their food anyways after letting it dry a bit?

I'm assuming prazi is a brand name? I'll see if I can find it. Thanks.
 
The name of the medication is praziquantel and a few different companies make it for home aquarium applications but the most common one I see is Prazipro. Another popular dewormer is levamisole. These seem to work on different types of internal parasites with varying degrees of success. Metronidazole is also used but I'm not a huge fan of it. Sometimes a combination of these... API makes a combination medication called General Cure that has metro and prazi.
Epsom salt can't hurt, any excess the fish digests is harmlessly excreted.


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I've tried finding levimisole before for guppies with camalanus, couldn't get it here. I'm going to do the salt treatment first and then move on to whatever prazi kind I can find then.
 
cat i would just listen to aclockwork. he and jk47 and many others have been dishing out good advice here for quite some time. i too have used salt without any problems.

dave
 
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