Kilgore
Aquarium Advice Activist
This is my last ditch effort to save this fish. Since the day I brought her home about one month ago she has been wasting away in spite of a normal appetite. She frequently has long stringy feces (white and sometimes a mix of other colors depending on what she has eaten). I know that she is in bad shape now because she has become very thin and appears to have absorbed her own eggs/young (her gravid spot is all but gone).
I have treated the entire tank twice with Praz Tastic (praziquantel) to deworm all the guppies (got a bad batch from the LFS) but she is the only one who has not recovered. Since then I removed her to a hospital tank and treated her twice with JungleLabs "Parasite Clear" which contains Praziquantel, Metronidazole and something else I can't think of at the moment. No results. Finally, I have also tried the Jungle Labs Anti-Parasite food but it is in pellet form and she won't touch it, even when I soak it in garlic and mash it up.
So I have the powdered form of the Praziquantel and I could mix it with frozen or flake food but do not know how to measure a proper dose. I have also read that tuberculosis can sometimes be treated with Erythromycin and I have Maracyn 1 so was considering that. Can they be used together? Or maybe TB doesn't have the stringy feces symptom.
I need the hospital tank for other fishes now (quarantine), so I am ready to give up. I am not ready for euthanasia, however, so does she have to be kept in isolation, or can I return her to the main tank and let nature take its course?
Please help! Thanks.
I have treated the entire tank twice with Praz Tastic (praziquantel) to deworm all the guppies (got a bad batch from the LFS) but she is the only one who has not recovered. Since then I removed her to a hospital tank and treated her twice with JungleLabs "Parasite Clear" which contains Praziquantel, Metronidazole and something else I can't think of at the moment. No results. Finally, I have also tried the Jungle Labs Anti-Parasite food but it is in pellet form and she won't touch it, even when I soak it in garlic and mash it up.
So I have the powdered form of the Praziquantel and I could mix it with frozen or flake food but do not know how to measure a proper dose. I have also read that tuberculosis can sometimes be treated with Erythromycin and I have Maracyn 1 so was considering that. Can they be used together? Or maybe TB doesn't have the stringy feces symptom.
I need the hospital tank for other fishes now (quarantine), so I am ready to give up. I am not ready for euthanasia, however, so does she have to be kept in isolation, or can I return her to the main tank and let nature take its course?
Please help! Thanks.