help with jungel parasite treatment

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One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.

Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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help with jungel parasite treatment

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im treatin my gsp russel as advised by forum,
first treatment was 2 tabs straight in tank,
2 days later 25% water change, then as u said, put one tab in tank +one in there food (frozen bloodworms)
should i notice a drastick change, (weight gain?) or is it gradual?
or should i just put half a tab with there food each day? if so for how long roughly?

frozen bloodworm doest absorb much solution i guess,so is it better 2 soak freeze dried ones instead?? :?
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Re: help with jungel parasite treatment

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when im medicating my fish, I mix up solution with garlic juice then thaw out there food store it overnight in fridge in the meds , shrimps from grocery store without shell I found absorbs the good stuff really well and the fish will love the garlic juice./ignoring the meds.
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Why is it that the puffers seem to like garlic?
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cool,how often if im usein jungel?
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I have cured my puffs with GEL-TEK. Some how people cant find this med at LFS, where I found it right away. I was trying to go on their web site but no luck. So i got 2 more bottles just in case.
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believe most time its 5 day treatment should have results bye a week.
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Flutter wrote:Why is it that the puffers seem to like garlic?
I think it's just one of those "go figure" things. Maybe the same reason I like it?
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DarkStorm wrote:believe most time its 5 day treatment should have results bye a week.
brilliant, when u say "results" u can actually see it yeah? :)
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should see them in poop with the parasites dead, when your using the fizz tabs are you removing carbon from tank? (as it will neutralize the meds quickly.)
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Chillyfish wrote:brilliant, when u say "results" u can actually see it yeah? :)
They'll start pooping out tons of worms. Then when their poo is worm-free, you're done.
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Re: help with jungel parasite treatment

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How can we tell..Gulp, poop filled worms? Also, I have a carbon filter but I'd rather not take it out since its my only filter and it didn't go so well last time I had tiger barbs and was treating them. I'm not sure if the ick med were to blame or the lack of a filter. Should I risk it? If it helps, I soak the food, I don't just drop the tablet.
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You can tell because it will be all brown, no white stringy stuff.

No need to remove the carbon if you're not treating the water. Invest in some stuffing from a craft store. I got some at the LFS, but you can get it at fabric stores, etc. You just pull out a little wad and stuff it in. It's way cheaper. You only *need* carbon to remove meds anyway.
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cool, well if thats the case, then I'm done! I saw one of my turtle pedestal covered in..hamster looking poo.
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I have taken out the carbon, but there poop seems dark brown anyway???
But I do have White gravel, so if it's ment 2 b whitish I prob can't see it!
2 b honest I havnt seen any traces of worms at moment? Are there other illments he could have apart from worms??
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I've been wanting to ask this for a while but didn't want to look like an idiot or negligent owner :-)

Both my puffers have ridiculously over-sized and over-filtered tanks with very good circulation, so maybe that's why, but I NEVER see puffer poo! They are healthy and not underweight so I don't worry about parasites...I test regularly and do frequent water changes and when I vacuum, I get crud but nothing solid or identifiable?

Am I blind, or is it the setup or do my puffs need more fiber in their diet, LOL???
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