Tank Shots from a bad day.

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Rivers2k

Rivers2k

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I was almost got to the point Saturday where I was going to throw all my tanks out the back door. Everything went wrong with my water change yesterday. Lost a prized fish and my canister filter started leaking. Had to purchase a new "quiet" HOB filter to use for now I think it is the loudest filter I ever heard. My two male HRP's have always gotten along well are now fighting.

But when it was all done at least I could sit back and enjoy how it turned out. I think it looks really good.













 
I lost a red spotted Severum. It looked like it had an IP where the stomach was shrinking but no stringy poo. I lost an HRP to it, Then a ram, and then the Severum was showing signs it seemed to be going from fish to fish and nothing was fixing it.

I have been feeding blood worms soaked in prazi pro but no luck. I read that you could use a siringe with epsome salt water mix and soot it in to the moth so it goes in and kills the parasite. So I tried it during the water change. First time I tired a little and no issue so I tried a second dose and it didn't with in seconds the fish died.
 
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I'm no expert with fish diseases, but.....I think the epsom salt with a syringe treatment is for Hexamita. Hex, I believe, is gonna cause white stringy poop. If your fish don't have white stringy poop, then you likely don't have Hex. So the sunken stomack with no stringy poop is something else.

I guess then, you'd have to figure it's an IP of some sort. There are IP's that Prazi won't treat. Perhaps your fish have that? If Prazi isn't helping, and you're SURE you're using Prazi correctly, at the correct concentration, for the correct period of time, then you might want to try some other treatment for IP's? Perhaps Levamisole or an anti-biotic?

I've done the syringe with epsom salt before, and it worked awesome. 2-3 days and fish that refused to eat anything were back to normal--eating and fighting with their neighbors. Remarkable. I HAVE had trouble doing it with smaller fish, though. It's easy for me to administer to 6-8 inch fish, but I don't quite have to skill to do it to smaller 3-4 inch fish.
 
ragin_cajun said:
I'm no expert with fish diseases, but.....I think the epsom salt with a syringe treatment is for Hexamita. Hex, I believe, is gonna cause white stringy poop. If your fish don't have white stringy poop, then you likely don't have Hex. So the sunken stomack with no stringy poop is something else.

I guess then, you'd have to figure it's an IP of some sort. There are IP's that Prazi won't treat. Perhaps your fish have that? If Prazi isn't helping, and you're SURE you're using Prazi correctly, at the correct concentration, for the correct period of time, then you might want to try some other treatment for IP's? Perhaps Levamisole or an anti-biotic?

I've done the syringe with epsom salt before, and it worked awesome. 2-3 days and fish that refused to eat anything were back to normal--eating and fighting with their neighbors. Remarkable. I HAVE had trouble doing it with smaller fish, though. It's easy for me to administer to 6-8 inch fish, but I don't quite have to skill to do it to smaller 3-4 inch fish.
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This was with a 5" Severum I had no problem administering it but as soon as I put him in the water he went on his side. I am using the prazi correctly I haven't heard of the other meds you suggested. I am just hoping none of my other fish come down with what ever it is.
 
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