Jungle lab parasite clear treatment duration

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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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we_tigers
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Jungle lab parasite clear treatment duration

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How long can the treatment go on?

I've done 4 treatments so far every other day with 25%, because it's working..

but the package says up to 2 treatments.

Any experience/thoughts?
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Re: Jungle lab parasite clear treatment duration

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For my Betta"Not the same as a puffer obviously" I used the Jungle fizz tabs*Again. Not the same, Sorry.* for fungus and a bunch of other nasties. After I did what I believe was 2-3 treatment's with it he seemed Pretty much back to normal. I did one more round and he is as good as can be pretty much. I was dosing a tablet per 10g and dissolving it in non tank water first then just dumping the water in. Worked great for me"Even though it's not quite if at all the same med"

I'm sorry about your puff and I wish you all the luck with him.
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Re: Jungle lab parasite clear treatment duration

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I do 4 or 5, then wait a couple weeks, then do a couple more.
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