Default deworming?
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2017 8:58 pm
Hello All,
Thanks for all of the help and resources available through this forum! I thoroughly read the deworming instructions in the forum library and have gone through old posts here. I am looking for opinions on whether to deworm by default for a new addition (tetraodon schoutedeni)? Photo attached. The article in the forum library seemed to suggest that it should be done by default, and I'm leaning toward doing it since I know my puffer was being fed live feeder goldfish (I know, I know ) before he became the newest member of the family. He's in a 55g with some serpae tetras and peppered corys. I've only had him two days, but he's eating well, ramhorms, blackworms, and reconstituted freeze-dried krill soaked in vitamin water. I picked up the metroplex and levamisole hcl just in case. I am afraid to rock the boat since he's eating well and seems healthy but also don't want him to have a shortened life due to any possible parasites. He was given a "general cure" before I got him (which I am under the impression doesn't really tackle parasites?), don't have any more specific information than that. Darned if I do and darned if I don't?
Thanks so much,
Astrid
Thanks for all of the help and resources available through this forum! I thoroughly read the deworming instructions in the forum library and have gone through old posts here. I am looking for opinions on whether to deworm by default for a new addition (tetraodon schoutedeni)? Photo attached. The article in the forum library seemed to suggest that it should be done by default, and I'm leaning toward doing it since I know my puffer was being fed live feeder goldfish (I know, I know ) before he became the newest member of the family. He's in a 55g with some serpae tetras and peppered corys. I've only had him two days, but he's eating well, ramhorms, blackworms, and reconstituted freeze-dried krill soaked in vitamin water. I picked up the metroplex and levamisole hcl just in case. I am afraid to rock the boat since he's eating well and seems healthy but also don't want him to have a shortened life due to any possible parasites. He was given a "general cure" before I got him (which I am under the impression doesn't really tackle parasites?), don't have any more specific information than that. Darned if I do and darned if I don't?
Thanks so much,
Astrid