Using piperazine?
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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.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
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.
Using piperazine?
related to my previous post can you use this.. In the thread piperazine is on there and it says you can not get it in liquid form in the U.S. but I did from walmart it sasy for cats and kittens is this useable?
please read what i found
Treatment for internal worms must be administered to a fish that is eating. Live foods are best, as this allows "gut loading," which is the practice of feeding live foods additional vitamins or medicines just prior to feeding. If live foods are unavailable, the next best option is to use freeze-dried foods. The dry food will soak up and retain a majority of the medicine. Piperazine is a good first choice for treatment. Add 250mg per 100g of food each day for a period of 10 days. Praziquantel or levamisole can be used as a second choice, with the same dosage and time frame. Niclosamide can also be used at 500mg per 100g of food for 10 days (Bassleer, 1996).
and also this from this forum please what do i do....
Piperazine (PI-per-a-zeen) is a systemic Anthelmintic ( ant-hel-MIN-tiks), which are used to treat worm infestations. Piperazine specifically treats common roundworms (ascariasis) and pinworms (enterobiasis; oxyuriasis). It works by paralyzing the worms and then are passed in the stool. Piperazine may not be available without a prescription. Available as a tablet only in the US.
Noga's recommended route of administration is orally only. Dosed at 4.5 mg/lb of body weight/day for 3 days.
please help i only need to treat about one teaspoon of food how many drops of teh med would this require
Mix 25 mg of piperazine citrate with 10 gm of flake food, and feeding this to the fish for 5-10 days. A repeat course of treatment is recommended 10-14 days later (dosed at 50-100 mg/kg of body weight).
Treatment for internal worms must be administered to a fish that is eating. Live foods are best, as this allows "gut loading," which is the practice of feeding live foods additional vitamins or medicines just prior to feeding. If live foods are unavailable, the next best option is to use freeze-dried foods. The dry food will soak up and retain a majority of the medicine. Piperazine is a good first choice for treatment. Add 250mg per 100g of food each day for a period of 10 days. Praziquantel or levamisole can be used as a second choice, with the same dosage and time frame. Niclosamide can also be used at 500mg per 100g of food for 10 days (Bassleer, 1996).
and also this from this forum please what do i do....
Piperazine (PI-per-a-zeen) is a systemic Anthelmintic ( ant-hel-MIN-tiks), which are used to treat worm infestations. Piperazine specifically treats common roundworms (ascariasis) and pinworms (enterobiasis; oxyuriasis). It works by paralyzing the worms and then are passed in the stool. Piperazine may not be available without a prescription. Available as a tablet only in the US.
Noga's recommended route of administration is orally only. Dosed at 4.5 mg/lb of body weight/day for 3 days.
please help i only need to treat about one teaspoon of food how many drops of teh med would this require
Mix 25 mg of piperazine citrate with 10 gm of flake food, and feeding this to the fish for 5-10 days. A repeat course of treatment is recommended 10-14 days later (dosed at 50-100 mg/kg of body weight).