What are the best Meds for treating Wild Caught Fish?

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MonsterCichlids75

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I'm just curious what are good meds to use when treating a new wild caught fish (fish like bluegills and other sunfish) because I know In the wild they pick up some nasty parasites and bacterias and I don't want to expose any of my current fish to anything that might come in with a few sunfish for my native tank since I use the same siphon and net and cleaning materials in all of my tanks. Thanks!


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If its a cycled tank just clean water and a month or so, but kirch gave a good suggestion for prevention.

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petspoiler said:
women?! pleeze. you're like one of my grandsons. I can't even visualize you thattaway, it's just wrong.
I forgot all about NLS.

you might wanna cut back on your jet fuel intake.
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Thanks F..For real piece of mind that there are no longer any parasites present he's going to need a little more than to have the fish spend time in a cycled tank.


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For external parasites such as fish lice, use dimilin. Skin flukes and gill flukes require praziquantel as active ingredient. Prazipro will cover it. If you have sodium chloride, the better to have in case of emergency cases.


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krichardson said:
Thanks F..For real piece of mind that there are no longer any parasites present he's going to need a little more than to have the fish spend time in a cycled tank.


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For sure!

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petspoiler said:
women?! pleeze. you're like one of my grandsons. I can't even visualize you thattaway, it's just wrong.
I forgot all about NLS.

you might wanna cut back on your jet fuel intake.
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Alright thanks for the help guys, sounds like prazi pro is a must, oh and this isn't my plan but I've known people who has set up native sunfish tanks and never treated them for parasites and stuff and the fish lived and acted perfectly fine. I'm not going to do that because I don't want any risk of any of my cichlid tanks getting contaminated, but just out of curiosity are the wild fish just used to having certain parasites so it doesn't really affect them as much but it would be a real problem if the same parasites got a tank raised fish?


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MonsterCichlids75 said:
Alright thanks for the help guys, sounds like prazi pro is a must, oh and this isn't my plan but I've known people who has set up native sunfish tanks and never treated them for parasites and stuff and the fish lived and acted perfectly fine. I'm not going to do that because I don't want any risk of any of my cichlid tanks getting contaminated, but just out of curiosity are the wild fish just used to having certain parasites so it doesn't really affect them as much but it would be a real problem if the same parasites got a tank raised fish?


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Kinda a two way street too. What does not affect tank raised fish may affect wild caught ones worse. This is usually why owners of altum angelfish are generally frightened by the idea of mixing altums with scalares (tank raised angels though wild ones also are caught and sold).


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Would that sodium chloride be contained in something else or used on its own?


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