fearlessfisch
Aquarium Advice FINatic
I have posted here occasionally about my problems with parasites (well, I don't have them...the fish do).
I fought camellanus and also some horrible little white worm that would burrow in or out of the fish's sides......attacking one fish at a time, for months. Also, the fish had red gills, suggesting gill flukes. What a mess.
I think my medication treatments were as horrible for the fish as the illnesses...both have killed.
I am hoping that the camellanus worms are gone after extended treatment with levamisole, following a regimen I found online.
I am hoping that the burrowing worms and gill flukes are gone after sequential treatments with Rid-Ich (unsuccessful), then Coppersafe (unsuccessful), then Fluke Tabs (possibly successful?). In between medication trials, I always waited at least a week (to see if the worms would come back, which they did until this last regimen, knock on wood) and also did huge water changes.
I have not seen any worms for a couple weeks now. However, the fish seem traumatized, and I am afraid the meds themselves may have done internal damage, even though I used less than the recommended dose.
I now have living in my tank:
a single german blue ram
a gold gourami
and some corycats.
The corycats are slowly becoming their old color after having turned red as a result of the skin condition the Fluke Tabs caused (destroying slime coat, which was described in the instructions). They are not very active, but are more active than the others in there now.
All of my neons were lost, I think from the medication rather than the worms.
The gold gourami spends all his time sitting at the bottom of the tank in a cave, only coming out briefly to go to the surface for air--then returning to the cave. I wonder if his labyrinth organ was damaged.
The blue ram just sits at the bottom of the tank.
They have been like this for two weeks, despite daily 70 percent water changes to make sure I remove all worm carcasses and because the meds messed with the bio filter. I see the corycats eat, but not the others, but they must be eating something, because they are surviving, and their condition hasn't changed in two weeks.
I feel so guilty, but everyone was dying of the parasites when I wasn't medicating. They are not getting better, though. I am concerned they may have been damaged internally.
And I am concerned that--even if I do confirm that the parasites are eradicated now--it will be hard to add new fish to the tank. I am afraid new, healthy fish would target the ones I have in there....who appear to be living but weakened by the med. experience.
I don't know what I'm looking for. Just wanted to share this. I hate fish meds. I have rarely had a good experience with any of them. This tank looks so lonely, and the fish look so sad.
I fought camellanus and also some horrible little white worm that would burrow in or out of the fish's sides......attacking one fish at a time, for months. Also, the fish had red gills, suggesting gill flukes. What a mess.
I think my medication treatments were as horrible for the fish as the illnesses...both have killed.
I am hoping that the camellanus worms are gone after extended treatment with levamisole, following a regimen I found online.
I am hoping that the burrowing worms and gill flukes are gone after sequential treatments with Rid-Ich (unsuccessful), then Coppersafe (unsuccessful), then Fluke Tabs (possibly successful?). In between medication trials, I always waited at least a week (to see if the worms would come back, which they did until this last regimen, knock on wood) and also did huge water changes.
I have not seen any worms for a couple weeks now. However, the fish seem traumatized, and I am afraid the meds themselves may have done internal damage, even though I used less than the recommended dose.
I now have living in my tank:
a single german blue ram
a gold gourami
and some corycats.
The corycats are slowly becoming their old color after having turned red as a result of the skin condition the Fluke Tabs caused (destroying slime coat, which was described in the instructions). They are not very active, but are more active than the others in there now.
All of my neons were lost, I think from the medication rather than the worms.
The gold gourami spends all his time sitting at the bottom of the tank in a cave, only coming out briefly to go to the surface for air--then returning to the cave. I wonder if his labyrinth organ was damaged.
The blue ram just sits at the bottom of the tank.
They have been like this for two weeks, despite daily 70 percent water changes to make sure I remove all worm carcasses and because the meds messed with the bio filter. I see the corycats eat, but not the others, but they must be eating something, because they are surviving, and their condition hasn't changed in two weeks.
I feel so guilty, but everyone was dying of the parasites when I wasn't medicating. They are not getting better, though. I am concerned they may have been damaged internally.
And I am concerned that--even if I do confirm that the parasites are eradicated now--it will be hard to add new fish to the tank. I am afraid new, healthy fish would target the ones I have in there....who appear to be living but weakened by the med. experience.
I don't know what I'm looking for. Just wanted to share this. I hate fish meds. I have rarely had a good experience with any of them. This tank looks so lonely, and the fish look so sad.