Deworming
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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.
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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edmlfc1
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Re: Deworming
It's not for deworming.
I pefer gel-tek ultra cure px, if that's not availble prazipro.
I pefer gel-tek ultra cure px, if that's not availble prazipro.
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Re: Deworming
Great, more good advice from the LFS. Guess I'm making a trip back tonight.
Re: Deworming
I got a bottle of Gel Tek. Can I get some advice on how others have used this successfully. The bottle says "use ultra cure bx as the only product offered to the fish when fed. Add to the aquarium with the dropper tip on the bottle. Hold bottle 2 inches above the water surface and squeeze. Offer at least 5 drops per fish. Twice a day." Previously I thought I've read to so food in the medication then feed the fish. Is that correct? Also it say to offer two times a day. Should I go with two smaller feedings rather than feeding once a day? Any advice from people who have had success with this product would be really helpfull.
Thanks
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Myaj
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Re: Deworming
I know the bottle says to just drip it into the water and that works fine with greedy little fish that eat anything you put in the tank, like guppies, goldfish, tetras, etc.
Puffers are hunters and a little more picky.. by the time they examine those drops of gel and decide they *might* want to try to eat one, its probably half melted away.
So most of us just goober the gel onto our puffer's regular food and dose them that way. If your puffer accepts freeze dried foods, that's easiest, soak the foods in a little bit of the gel so they soak it up, and feed it (probably a good idea to do the two times a day thing if your puffer will eat twice, mine usually will not). If your puffer won't eat freeze dried, just do your best to figure out how to get a fair amount onto their food.. I usually goober a bunch onto some shrimp, I know another member actually got a syringe and injected the geltek right into an earthworm and did it that way.
The best part about it is the fish don't object to the flavor, so as long as they'll eat the food you are offering normally, they usually don't even notice the medication.
Puffers are hunters and a little more picky.. by the time they examine those drops of gel and decide they *might* want to try to eat one, its probably half melted away.
So most of us just goober the gel onto our puffer's regular food and dose them that way. If your puffer accepts freeze dried foods, that's easiest, soak the foods in a little bit of the gel so they soak it up, and feed it (probably a good idea to do the two times a day thing if your puffer will eat twice, mine usually will not). If your puffer won't eat freeze dried, just do your best to figure out how to get a fair amount onto their food.. I usually goober a bunch onto some shrimp, I know another member actually got a syringe and injected the geltek right into an earthworm and did it that way.
The best part about it is the fish don't object to the flavor, so as long as they'll eat the food you are offering normally, they usually don't even notice the medication.
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marksrush
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Re: Deworming
Did you buy Ultra Cure BX, or PX? BX is for bacterial infections, not deworming. You want PX for that.