What patisite do I have??????

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Bigfish954

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I've been dealing with some kind of internal parisite for months. I don't think its hex because I've used metro multible times and my fishes poop is still white and stringy and about half of the fish hardly eat/don't eat at all. I have also been using prazi and that didn't help. I ordered some levimesole and am doing one more hard dose of metro and prazi right now. I euthanized one of the sicker fish and opened it up to see if I could find any worms so I could get an id. I have pics attached to the thread of possible worms. My tank which is 180 gallons has mostly cichlids in it and a pleco and an upside down cat and a tinfoil Barb. For filtration I have a Rena xp4 and a sun sun 304b. The fish are mostly juviniles. The pleco has it now too and poops white stringy feces mixed with regular feces. I know levimesole treats calumanus which is red worms but I haven't found any red worms in the tank or in the fish I dicected(I did find a white one tho, I think). But if prazi and metro arnt working then levimesole is the next logical option. I also tried using a syringe to give my fish that don't eat Epsom salt/meto/prazi water and it didn't do much and I killed one of the fish accidently in the process and stressed the fish out force feeding them the solution. I don't know of any worms that are immune to prazi metro and levimesole so if the Levi dosnt work I don't know what I will do.hooefully the pics I uploaded have the worm I'm dealing with in them and I can get an idea.

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Also it seems like there are sometimes packs of eggs in the white fish poop like a cacoon and sometimes the poop is clear white and sometimes like pure white. And I did have a case if hith like 2 months back but cured it. I didn't quarentine any if the fish and got them all from multible stores/sources so I guess that's why I have a parisite problem. Also there was this white thing sticking out of my plecos butt if that means anything I uploaded a pic

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If levamisole doesn't work, you can try febendazole. Thomas labs Inc makes one for fish, or you can go to your local pet store and use the febendazole in found in canine dewormer SafeGuard or Panacur. You can combine with praziquental (Prazipro)
 
I've heard of that medication, it only works if the fish eat it right? Does it treat different parisites that Levi metro and prazi don't treat? Also I don't think I have calumanus because I haven't seen any red worms and I didn't see any in the fish I dicected. Does Levi only treat calumanus or does it treat more than just that? And can I use it with metro and prazi or do I have to stop using them while I use Levi? I honestly don't really know what I have so I'm using a shotgun approach the only thing I know for sure is that I have some kind of internal parisite.
 
febendazole can work in the water column just very hard to dissolve. not sure if you are dealing with a parasite problem here or not.
Do you have access to a microscope? best bet is to look at a fecal sample and gut contents

also febendazole has similar coverage to using prazi and levi
 
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