Hey All,
Would appreciate any feedback from those who've had similar experiences.
Long story short, I have a problem with parasites. Mainly internal, like hexamita, but I also occasionally deal with gill flukes. The occurrence is actually fairly infrequent tank to tank, but since I have so many tanks, it adds up to where I'm always dealing with one problem after another.
I think the issue is that most of my tanks have cross-contaminated by now. So I'll treat one tank, then a week later the affliction springs to life somewhere else.
I now have a unique opportunity to fix it. I've recently moved, and as part of that I had to trim down my stock. My fish room is now at the smallest it will be for a long time. I'm wondering if I should take this opportunity to treat all my fish all at once. This would be a large, and expensive, undertaking. But I think it would help. Then going forward I would treat as a prophylactic in QT all incoming fish.
Specifically, I would do a week of Metronidazole. Then a week of prazi-pro. Break for two weeks and then repeat. I wouldn't do anything for ich as I haven't had that in years. And same story for bacterial infections, fin rot, etc. It's really just the parasites.
What do you think? A good idea, an awful idea, good but with a few tweaks needed, etc? I'll post my stock list in the next post if anyone would want to review it for input.
Thank you.
Would appreciate any feedback from those who've had similar experiences.
Long story short, I have a problem with parasites. Mainly internal, like hexamita, but I also occasionally deal with gill flukes. The occurrence is actually fairly infrequent tank to tank, but since I have so many tanks, it adds up to where I'm always dealing with one problem after another.
I think the issue is that most of my tanks have cross-contaminated by now. So I'll treat one tank, then a week later the affliction springs to life somewhere else.
I now have a unique opportunity to fix it. I've recently moved, and as part of that I had to trim down my stock. My fish room is now at the smallest it will be for a long time. I'm wondering if I should take this opportunity to treat all my fish all at once. This would be a large, and expensive, undertaking. But I think it would help. Then going forward I would treat as a prophylactic in QT all incoming fish.
Specifically, I would do a week of Metronidazole. Then a week of prazi-pro. Break for two weeks and then repeat. I wouldn't do anything for ich as I haven't had that in years. And same story for bacterial infections, fin rot, etc. It's really just the parasites.
What do you think? A good idea, an awful idea, good but with a few tweaks needed, etc? I'll post my stock list in the next post if anyone would want to review it for input.
Thank you.
