Managuense cihlid help
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UPdate Well tomorrow is treatment number two! I have a question though every time i do a big water change my big jag spits up or somehow gets a bunch these white wormy stringy things all around his face. He then makes a couple laps and rubs them off and they stay gone until the next water change. I attached two pics to show it. Is this typical of cammallanus or is it something different? Thanks in advance
Over a month straight of non-stop medication has to be taking a toll on your jag, weird that you're still having issues. Went through the thread quick and didn't see anything about carbon in your filters, I'm assuming you hopefully haven't been using carbon during these treatments right?
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Hey thanks for the reply jrt! No sir i never run carbon in my tanks just sponges and the bio max media. Whats crazy is besides the odd poop (looks like a pellet connected to another pellet with a long thin white almost wormy/jelly string) he has been acting great! Super outgoing right up front begging for food ect. I scooped the one i seen out and put it on a paper towel to investigate and it just mooshes as soon as you touch it which if it was a worm you would think it wouldnt break right apart?
Other than that all the other fish have poop consistant with the food i feed them
Other than that all the other fish have poop consistant with the food i feed them
That is bazzar I don't know what they are. Do you notice any "Y" shaped ends on them? Did you ever get any Kanamycin?
Yea I scoured the internet trying to find pictures and no luck whatsoever. I did get the seachem kanaplex (ordered 8 jars they ran out of the stuff for a good 3 weeks). You know not 100 percent sure on the y shaped ends on thing i know is i do see them hanging on the divider and they are clear wormy/jelly hairlike strings but they dont effect any of the other fish. This will be the second treatment of levamisole but i am starting to wonder if maybe i am not dealing with callamanus beings that 1) i dont think that parasite lives outside of the fish and two shouldnt the worms be red from feeding on the fish ?? Idk aquanero kinda at a loss here haha i was hoping like heck you had the answer haha.
There is one suggestion I would make at this point. Do large water change 50%+ and do not medicate the fish for two days. Run some carbon thrugh the filter if you have any to help remove any residual meds. Then in two days give it a bath in 1 teaspoon of Meth blue per five gallons of tank water, add to this one table spoon of salt and ¼ teaspoon of Epsom salt. Let the fish sit in the bath for 30 mins and return to the main tank. While the fish is in the bath do a water change in the main tank and see what the results are after that. Don’t use any more meds in the mean time.
Ok just so we are on the same page I waited three weeks between the levamisole treatments and today would be the second treatment. During the three week period i was doing fourty percent water changes on all my tanks three to four times a week. Also before the first treatment of levamisole I gave the fish a two week break after the prazi before the levamisole. Just so you know the whole scoop so they havent been constantly immersed in meds.
Now with the bath how exactly do you do those? I have read about them but never actually done one. Should i just use a big tupperware container fill it with water from the tank, and say its five gallon container then use five drops nox ich?? or should i look for a pure methelayne blue?? Then just one table spoon aquarium salt right as well as 1/4 teaspoon epsom salt ( kind you would get at a cvs ect?) Sorry for so many questions just wanna make sure i have the right idea lol.
Now with the bath how exactly do you do those? I have read about them but never actually done one. Should i just use a big tupperware container fill it with water from the tank, and say its five gallon container then use five drops nox ich?? or should i look for a pure methelayne blue?? Then just one table spoon aquarium salt right as well as 1/4 teaspoon epsom salt ( kind you would get at a cvs ect?) Sorry for so many questions just wanna make sure i have the right idea lol.
Ok that's a different story then. Much better........lol. Try the meth blue before any more worm meds. It works sometimes when all else seems to fail. I can't promise any thing but it might just work. You always have the levamisole if it doesn't and this is not a harsh treatment. I want to see what it looks like when it goes back into the tank after the water change. Also if it is going to expel anything from the epsom salt better it's into the bucket.
Ok sounds like a plan then thanks for the help aquanero. One thing though is five drops of nox ich comparable to a table spoon of methelyne blue? Also aquarium salt with epsom salt right? As a side note what should i expect to be "Expelled" lol we talking something pretty nasty??
