Parasite treastment

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Yeah, I tried a few pellets but no dice. He looked at them but wouldn't eat. He is passing a lot more white waste, so hoping that's a positive.
 
OK, need a bit more advice. My Terror is overpowering the filter and ammonia is starting to show in the quarantine tank. This makes me pretty certain I'll also have a nitrite spike coming as well.

Current readings are:
Ph: 7.6
Ammonia: .5 ppm
Nitirite: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 20 ppm

I have dosed with prazipro so I don't know if I should be doing water changes. Should I just add some prime? If prime is the way to go how much for a 5 gallon tank? I was thinking 2ml to keep any toxic levels detoxified. I can also do a huge water change and redose the prazipro, but I wasn't sure if I should go with another full dose after only a day. I can also add a bit more established media to the filter from another tank and see if that helps (I actually will do this while I await a response).
 
You should add prime 30 minutes - 1 hour before you dose prazipro. Prime is a reducing agent and may affect Prazipro. You might as well do an 75%+ water change, add Prime, wait and hour or 2 then do a full dose of Prazipro.
 
I'm mixing the fresh water now and have used prime as a conditioner. Any reason to add more Prime again since I'm doing a large water change?

edit...nevermind I think you were assuming I'd add prime to the tank after the change with straight tap water and not premixing.
 
Here are a couple pics before treatment and 1 day into treatment:
terror pre treatment1.jpg Terrot post treatment2.jpg

As you can see he is still showing his tear drop, but his fins are back open and displaying again. Hoping that we may be turning the corner. If he'd only show a bit more interest in eating now, I'd be really happy.
 
Fins might be more open due to reflection on bare bottom glass tank. He might think he is seeing another GT/fish.
 
So not sure this is any kind of good sign or bad sign, but the poop color changed from clear stringy to a solid white. Still long and trailing, but I was hoping this could be a good sign. Other than that I still can’t get him to eat. So I’m going to try general cure and see if that has any success.
 
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