Hey Guys
Does anyone know if I can get fish deworming medicine in the UK?
Have you used it yourself?
Do you have a favourate?
How much is it and where can I get it from?
Thanks in advance
ps. Maybe a stupid Q but could I use Dog/Cat dewormer and just soak the Puffers food in that?
Does anyone know if I can get fish deworming medicine in UK?
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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.
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Re: Does anyone know if I can get fish deworming medicine in UK?
I import wormer plus from the UK because it flubendazole based and effective against a VERY wide variety of parasites. You can find it by googling the name, or searching ebay.
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Re: Does anyone know if I can get fish deworming medicine in UK?
Flubendazole is the active ingredient in Flubenvet which is a powered wormer that I use for my chickens. I have no idea what the dosage would be for fish, but you do have to sign a register with your name/address when you buy it, since it's a vet. medicine. The dose for each chicken is tiny (I dip a grape in the powder and feed it to each once a day for a week twice a year, but it's very safe even in larger doses, as long as they don't eat buckets of the stuff) so I expect you'd need even less for a fish (even a big fish). You can buy a small tub from farm suppliers.
Maybe you can find flubendazole in another form, but if not, Flubenvet is a possibility.
Maybe you can find flubendazole in another form, but if not, Flubenvet is a possibility.
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Re: Does anyone know if I can get fish deworming medicine in UK?
Alright,
Wormer plus is the one recomended to me on this forum, by t1gerbee.
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trks ... cus+wormer
I've tried it on my F8 about a month ago now. I'm not sure it worked, but it didn't appear to do any harm either. I added to the tank though (as per the instructions) after removing carbon from the filter. I plan on soaking food in it soon to see if that works as this is what is recomended by many posts on the forum. I think that the effectiveness depends on the type of IP, so it can be a bit hit and miss.
Wormer plus is the one recomended to me on this forum, by t1gerbee.
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trks ... cus+wormer
I've tried it on my F8 about a month ago now. I'm not sure it worked, but it didn't appear to do any harm either. I added to the tank though (as per the instructions) after removing carbon from the filter. I plan on soaking food in it soon to see if that works as this is what is recomended by many posts on the forum. I think that the effectiveness depends on the type of IP, so it can be a bit hit and miss.
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Re: Does anyone know if I can get fish deworming medicine in UK?
This is the shop in the UK you can buy Wormer Plus from.
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Re: Does anyone know if I can get fish deworming medicine in UK?
Forms of flubendazole for livestock may contain an ingredient which increases uptake, but also has a negative effect on fish, making their skin more transparent to toxins in the water, I'd probably buy the fish stuff, since it's not expensive.
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puffertt77
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Re: Does anyone know if I can get fish deworming medicine in UK?
Figured it was a long shot... I've never had to treat my fish for IPs, fortunately.Nick wrote:Forms of flubendazole for livestock may contain an ingredient which increases uptake, but also has a negative effect on fish, making their skin more transparent to toxins in the water, I'd probably buy the fish stuff, since it's not expensive.