angloe1
Aquarium Advice Regular
My fish have the long stringy 'parasite poop'. Do I need to treat them with food and a tank treatment or just one or the other? Will the tank fizzies do the trick on their own?
That's what I have. (jungle parasite clear) So I can use them on their own? I don't need to use parasite food in addition?metronidazole works well. There are some foods that have it in them, or the jungle parasite clear tabs work as well.
jetajockey said:metronidazole works well. There are some foods that have it in them, or the jungle parasite clear tabs work as well.
Do you have a hospital tank? IMHO, I would just treat the infected fish in a different tank than treat the whole tank. If it's ich, it's a different story. Since it's not ich, I'll treat the fish separately. Research metrodinazole. This is what I use with my discus when I suspect parasites(white poop). IME, it works really great.
If a few of my fish have it, wouldn't it make sense that they all would have them? Aren't they contagious?
angloe1 said:If a few of my fish have it, wouldn't it make sense that they all would have them? Aren't they contagious?
If that's the case then I'll treat the whole tank.
But do you need parasite food and a water treatment or just the water treatment? Or just the food? Will treating the water also treat the fish?
angloe1 said:But do you need parasite food and a water treatment or just the water treatment? Or just the food? Will treating the water also treat the fish?
What fish are involved?? What are you treating?
For external parasites (ich, velvet, etc), treating the water is adequate.
For internal parasites (if you are seeing white stringy poop etc.), then an anti-parasite food is much preferred. Treating the water might kill the eggs or larvae of the parasite, but generally won't touch the parasite in the fish. <Esp. for big fish like goldfish ... you don't get a lot of drug inside them if you just add it in the water.>
I would use Jungle's anti-parasite food (Metronidazole & Praziquintal). But as others had mentioned earlier, you can also make your own anti-parasite food with the metronidazole you have.
jsoong said:What fish are involved?? What are you treating?
For external parasites (ich, velvet, etc), treating the water is adequate.
For internal parasites (if you are seeing white stringy poop etc.), then an anti-parasite food is much preferred. Treating the water might kill the eggs or larvae of the parasite, but generally won't touch the parasite in the fish. <Esp. for big fish like goldfish ... you don't get a lot of drug inside them if you just add it in the water.>
I would use Jungle's anti-parasite food (Metronidazole & Praziquintal). But as others had mentioned earlier, you can also make your own anti-parasite food with the metronidazole you have.
I just remembered that I started a thread asking how metrodinazole works and somebody gave me a great answer. Here's the link...
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f12/metrodinazole-144869.html