Internal parasites

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4 days ago I noticed a string of white poop hanging from my Electric Blue Jack Dempsey and suspected it probably developed internal parasites so I isolated it in a hospital tank and did a 50% water change. Well, now I see it in 3 more of its tank mates so I decided to treat them all. I plan to mix peas, metroplex, focus and hikari brine shrimp together and feed it to them over the next two weeks. I would add epson salt but I also have about 5 corys roaming the bottom.
Is there anything else I should consider doing besides water changes every few days?
Any help is appreciated.
 
plan sounds good to me. not sure I would use the focus but on the other hand will not hurt anything.

Hope all works out well.
 
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Good luck dude if they don't eat it you can inject into the stomach just make sure the syringes in the stomach / pass the gill plates
 
pops said:
plan sounds good to me. not sure I would use the focus but on the other hand will not hurt anything.

Hope all works out well.
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seachem focus is made to bind powder medication to food.

Personally, I would treat using gel based food so that you will lose less medication to the water column. The easiest route, although a bit more expensive, is treating with NLS hex shield since it already has metro and epsom salt. The epsom salt at that dosage will not affect the cories. Even soaking dried floating pellets with 3% epsom salt solution will not hurt the cories since the dosage is so small.
 
Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate, not SALT, as in sodium chloride. Epsom salt does not affect corys the way that sodium does. If your fish are still eating, I would feed NLS Hex-Shield. Potent food, that has worked well for me.

I would also NOT be feeding peas, or brine shrimp.
 
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Rocksor said:
seachem focus is made to bind powder medication to food.

Personally, I would treat using gel based food so that you will lose less medication to the water column. The easiest route, although a bit more expensive, is treating with NLS hex shield since it already has metro and epsom salt. The epsom salt at that dosage will not affect the cories. Even soaking dried floating pellets with 3% epsom salt solution will not hurt the cories since the dosage is so small.
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Forgive my noob response, but how would I calculate 3% epsom salt into my food? Currently, I just put epsom salt in the tank water on hospital tank.
 
Make an Epson salt solution and use a bit of it to bind all the mess with the food.

I bought nls hex shield and while my fish eats it, he really hated it and barely will eat it. I have focus and metro on the way to try with his pellets.

Hoping that will work better.
 
Phillip, while your experience with Hex-Shield wasn't overly positive due to your fishes palate, I have had success feeding it to numerous fish, and numerous species of fish. I have had some fish that eat it as readily as any other food, while some turn their nose up to it after a few days. IMO, it is far more effective than feeding metro soaked food due to the reasons I explained to you in your thread. Metro is not very water soluble, so attempting to mix it into a solution, that can then be fully absorbed by a dry pellet is not that easy. As Rocksor suggested, in that scenario gel food is more ideal.
 
State43 said:
Forgive my noob response, but how would I calculate 3% epsom salt into my food? Currently, I just put epsom salt in the tank water on hospital tank.
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based on RD's thread, I use 3/4 teaspoon of epsom and dissolve it in 1/2 cup of distilled water. I then include this into gel based food as th sole water source or saturate freeze dried food/floating pellets. The freeze dried food/pellets need to be eaten immediately once it hits the water to retain a mjority of the solution.
 
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