YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!!! WORMS NOW?!?!

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predatorkeeper87 said:
I'm not here to bash, flame, etc etc but I have to agree with these guys...please don't release the fish regardless if its going into a manmade waterway or not...viruses and bacteria know no bounds when it comes to spreading to new locations. Google VHS virus in the great lakes and you can see the possible damage coming from doing these well-intentioned releases. If the fish seems to be going downhill as you said it would be better to euthanize him instead, I know its not the nicest option but this is also a responsibility we as fishkeepers (and especially native NA fish keepers like you and myself) need to be diligent in. I've put down native fish before that I could have easily put into the local gameland ponds beside my house but they were exposed to possible diseases/parasites that the entire pond ecosystem could have been decimated by with having no immunity to them.

P.S. this isn't an insult to your intelligence by any means. I have respect for you both as a fellow servicemember and fish keeper, I can see you are no novice when it comes to doing whats right.
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Ok, I'm with you on this and will put the fish down. It has had a very hard time in here so far and it just seems as if it's getting worse. I'll go ahead and do what YOU GUYS think is the right thing and majority rules so it must be the right thing. ;) lol As far as Chris Pratt goes. Not sure of what the relation of what I said and Pratt is, but I'll be him all day long if I get to so sex scenes with a drunken Jennifer Lawrence!

And is everybody on here a dang former or current service member? Seems like it
 
USMCSS said:
Ok, I'm with you on this and will put the fish down. It has had a very hard time in here so far and it just seems as if it's getting worse. I'll go ahead and do what YOU GUYS think is the right thing and majority rules so it must be the right thing. ;) lol As far as Chris Pratt goes. Not sure of what the relation of what I said and Pratt is, but I'll be him all day long if I get to so sex scenes with a drunken Jennifer Lawrence!

And is everybody on here a dang former or current service member? Seems like it
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chris pratt was the raptor trainer in the new Jurassic world movie lol.

as for military, theres quite a few of us on here. check out the recent veterans day thread, there are A LOT of us lol
 
predatorkeeper87 said:
chris pratt was the raptor trainer in the new Jurassic world movie lol.

as for military, theres quite a few of us on here. check out the recent veterans day thread, there are A LOT of us lol
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Oh jeez. With all the veterans I now know why they have a potty mouth filter on the page. I've already been reprimanded by Staff Sgt for my attempt to bypass it
 
hahaha yup, no games here marine.


getting back on topic here, those look to be just run of the mill anchor worms, which are pretty common in a lot of north American waterways. As such you see them a lot on most of the species here. fairly harmless but what I'm concerned about is your ornate poly you had in there. He will have zero tolerance to them so medicating this tank is probably a good idea. They can't really do a ton of damage unless you get a lot of them on one fish but what worries me is the possible spread of other contaminants from the worms themselves. These bacteria or viruses he will have no immunity to
 
predatorkeeper87 said:
hahaha yup, no games here marine.


getting back on topic here, those look to be just run of the mill anchor worms, which are pretty common in a lot of north American waterways. As such you see them a lot on most of the species here. fairly harmless but what I'm concerned about is your ornate poly you had in there. He will have zero tolerance to them so medicating this tank is probably a good idea. They can't really do a ton of damage unless you get a lot of them on one fish but what worries me is the possible spread of other contaminants from the worms themselves. These bacteria or viruses he will have no immunity to
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Well the kanaplex and paraguard will be here tomorrow so I'll start with that. Sound about right?

Where is this Veterans Day thread?
 
USMCSS said:
Well the kanaplex and paraguard will be here tomorrow so I'll start with that. Sound about right?

Where is this Veterans Day thread?
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yup, I'd use them together, paraguard will cover the worms, kanaplex with handle any secondary bacterial problems.

ill find it, wait one.
 
Put him down would be smartest decision you ever made instead of dumping him back to the canals, manmade or not. Fish diseases spread very easily, especially the birds transporting them. Because you exposed the native fishes to the tropical fishes, they could pick up some deadly diseases that some natives have no immune to. It happens often in some parts. For example, non native topmouth grudgeon is a carrier of a lethal diseases that European minnows have no immune to it where the topmouth grudgeon is immune to it.
 
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