Hexamita?

[pcfriedrich]

Does that explain the white feces to? And he is in a 90 gallon tank as well and I make sure the staple of his diet is Hikari Cichlid Gold and then he sometimes gets crickets, bloodworms, krill, and no live or dead fish of any kind.

maybe I should've read the entire thread first...

if your O will still eat, feed him nothing but food medicated with the metrandazol (or whatever the hell it is) for at least a week.

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

Metro is almost impossible to overdose with - as has already been mentioned the jungle labs parasite clear tablets are very good - they contain several anti parasitic medications including metro.

However, if a fish is eating and showing white feces it may not always be a sure sign of hexamita - white stringy feces is a sign of stress, all fish have parasites and bacteria's living in their intestines and digestive tract, when they stress too much things get out of balance.

It is not always completely necessary to treat with medications - I usually wait 1-2 weeks before using meds past salt and increased temps with a lot of water changes.

 

[pcfriedrich]

I guess I shouldn't have but I assumed that the metronidazole would not react with melafix because melafix is all natural. I mixed a bit in with some frozen blood worms and tossed it in. They had terrible instructions for mixing with food so I kinda tried to do an approximate ratio. Everything seems fine and the oscar is already very active and hyper again. The instructions were terrible so do any of you guys have a way of mixing and using it that has worked for you?

somebody suggested to me that I crush up pellets and crush up pills, and mix the concoction with a small amount of aquarium water to create a paste.

Jungle Brand makes food pellets with the medicine already in it, though. I saw it at Petsmart the other day.

My GT is showing symptoms of hexamita again. anyone know how to completely irradicate it from a tank? my GT has had it twice and my O has had it once.

 

[pcfriedrich]

Metro is almost impossible to overdose with - as has already been mentioned the jungle labs parasite clear tablets are very good - they contain several anti parasitic medications including metro.

However, if a fish is eating and showing white feces it may not always be a sure sign of hexamita - white stringy feces is a sign of stress, all fish have parasites and bacteria's living in their intestines and digestive tract, when they stress too much things get out of balance.

It is not always completely necessary to treat with medications - I usually wait 1-2 weeks before using meds past salt and increased temps with a lot of water changes.

okay.

My GT is not eating, showing white stringy feces, but is still quite active. So I'm confused as to what his problem might be...

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

If he's not eating give him 2 weeks before medicating - unless you have reason to believe he's infected, i.e. you've added a new fish that you know was infected ect.

 

[CichlidDan]

Wow quite the turnaround in the scar. I didn't feed him all day so he would be hungry, then I fed him with medicine in the food roughly in the ratio as instructed. Tonight he was out and about wanting more food. (unbeknownst to him it was again medicated) Weird that an antibiotic used or once used on humans now has a warning label known to the state of California to cause cancer.