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Today I started the 24h prazi+levamisole bath. I increased the SG a little bit (1.010) just in case the brackish water forces him to injest water (with meds) to keep osmoregulation. I offered him some regular shrimp today and he didn't accept, that worried me. Hope that treatment give us some results. I just don't know how often repeat the treatment.

My fish wouldn't eat when treated with levamisole, and I do think increasing SG a bit does help slightly.

Hey Nick.. how did you solve the case?

After your treatment is over do a large 50% + water change, add carbon to get the meds out then your fish will start to eat again. Annabelle did the same thing. Even when I use melafix and pimafix she won't eat. Once I did the water change she started to eat again.

Hey, good to read your reply!

I try to avoid adding meds in the main tank, I did the treatment in a hospital tank. After the 24h prazi+levamisole bath I acclimated him to the main tank's water (from 1.010+meds to 1.03 pristine brackish water). He's still a little boated, but he IS eating.

I did not notice any worms swimming in the hospital tank's water. I still don't know how often repeat the treatment.

Just try to watch when he goes pooh. Then you will know if you need to retreat or not. If you see white stringy pooh in the next few days don't retreat right away. Annabelle did that, she was passing the last of the dead worm. One day I saw white stringy pooh the next day it was big black pooh. I was worried I would have to treat her again, I took the advise of a friend and waited. She is now "worm" free, dead and alive!

If you want to treat him again in a few weeks just to make sure, soak his food in the meds and see if he will eat it. If he does treat him that way instead of moving him into a hospital tank. If he won't eat it then you can do the hospital treatment again. I would give it at least 3 weeks before I treated again.

Actually I feed him at night, so when I turn on the lights in the next morning I could see him defecating, he didn't that since I treated him. Does the type of food change the feces coloration? I only see black poos when I offer him some snails, when I offer some clams or shrimp his poo is kinka whitish.

Color in can be color out - every now and then I toss a puffer at work a fatty little waxworm, if they need enticing to eat and are too small for the big nightcrawlers, and it freaked me out before I realized those come right back out the same waxy color.