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I'd like to deworm my GSP in my 55 gallon marine tank, and wondering if it would be harmful to my inverts and coral if Jungle buddies tabs were added to the water. I am aware that soaking food is the best method, but my GSP's diet is not very controlled since she hunts and eats a lot of little critters breeding in the live rock and sand. I thought that it'd be best to use both methods to deworm, but not if it will harm the ecosystem. My quarantine tank is only 3.5 gallons, and is just a last resort. Toki is not skinny, but is showing slight weight loss, and some stringy poo. I want to fix it before it becomes a problem.

I'm not providing all the info in red because I don't need a diagnosis, just advice to this Q. But if you need to know more, feel free to ask. Thanks!

No reason to add it to the water, just soak his food in the meds. Any of your other fish can eat the food.

So it doesn't matter that Toki's diet also consists of critters in the aquarium that aren't under my control? I thought I read somewhere to only feed dewormer-soaked food during the deworming periods. Thank you for your feed back.

Not much you can do about that.