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sharp tooth;3484955; said:
well im dunno what to say, i bought some myself for my ray tank and treated that tonight. one looked dodgy so i water changed 50% straight away. everything is fine now.

that treatment is ment to be the safest you can get! did you read the website? its for discus so snakeheads should have no worries at all. ive been told nothing but good things about it thats why i used it in my ray tank tonight, but i wasent happy so did a WC. have you done a WC on the tank?

did you put the other one in fresh water with no treatment? if not ide put that one in water with no treatment init and do a WC on the main tank.

im so sorry if it has caused this which it sounds like it has. get the stuff out asap.
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nah it's ok hun. we don't know if the treatment caused this effect on the micro or not! but i'll definitely do a wc when i get back home. i'm not in london right now, yesterday i took the train up to newcastle and im gonna be back on tuesday night...i'm expectin the micro to be dead when i get back..i dunno...but i had no choice. anyway if it makes it through until then i'll do a massive wc and get rid of all the medication in it. i hope it pulls through cos that micro is huge...but if it doesn't happen then at least i tried. there'll always be more micros to come ;)
 
Pharaoh;3479762; said:
My understanding on tapeworms would say just the opposite. What you saw coming out of the fish was the eggs that it was laying. The tapeworm will live off of its host until the host stops providing nutrients. At that point it will die. There is no reasoning behind them. They simply serve the purpose of procreating. They never leave unless treated/killed.

Larger volumes of water will reduce the possibility of it spreading.
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should have another tank up and running in a couple weeks. my fear is that it has/will spread to other tankmates.
all fish are acting normal as of now, fingers crossed

does anyone know the timeline to see symptoms?
how long would it take to starve tapeworms to death?
 
mad ness;3492096; said:
should have another tank up and running in a couple weeks. my fear is that it has/will spread to other tankmates.
all fish are acting normal as of now, fingers crossed

does anyone know the timeline to see symptoms?
how long would it take to starve tapeworms to death?
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You could not see symptoms for quite a while. The life cycle of a tapeworm is about 4-6 weeks. Just an approximate.
I would say it would take longer than it would to starve a fish to death.
 
Pharaoh;3492143; said:
You could not see symptoms for quite a while. The life cycle of a tapeworm is about 4-6 weeks. Just an approximate.
I would say it would take longer than it would to starve a fish to death.
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right ok thanks for the info. are there any other medications or methods other than ones mentioned in this post that may work?
 
To be honest, I really wouldn't know. I even tried looking for information regarding tapeworm infected fish. All I could come up with is that they can carry the tapeworm larvae, but do not necessarily become infected. Its all a bit confusing.
 
Pharaoh;3492208; said:
To be honest, I really wouldn't know. I even tried looking for information regarding tapeworm infected fish. All I could come up with is that they can carry the tapeworm larvae, but do not necessarily become infected. Its all a bit confusing.
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yea I wasn't able to come up with anything conclusive either. the LFS's here don't seem to know either.

any idea why the eggs would only come out when the fish haven't eaten for a few days?
 
well when i got back from my holiday - the micros were still there...the infected one looking a bit livelier than it had when i last saw it. perhaps it will make it through...but i think i will stop with all the medication now cos it really hasn't made much of a difference.
 
neervana - are you able to take photos of the bum streamers? I will try to do the same and post up. Might make identifying this a bit easier.

Hopefully Mcarfi is right...
 
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