coldeb Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 I had 8 Discus of various sizes and breeds with a breakout of gill flukes.3 younger discus died. the 5 remaining have white faeces and are not eating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Sounds like you need to be treating them with metro/prazi.. Do a search on the forums for discus or sick discus or metro or prazi and you will find all the info you could ever desire on it.. How many fish do you have? What size tank is it? And how many water changes have you been doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Not sure but similar symptoms are seen with tapeworms. Try a praziquantel bath - that should kill cestodes and trematodes (tapewormsand flukes). The worms should start coming out almost immediately when the fish are dosed. Many tapeworms are resistant so it would be good to do a follow up treatment 14 days later. It might also be a good idea to treat for roundworms, levamisole has greater broad spectrum effectiveness against nematodes. If you can get fenbendazole, and are prepared to squirt it into the fish's mouth (since they aren't eating), that is an excellent dewormer that will work well for both censtodes, trematodes and nematodes. Others may have good advice here specific to discus. Good luck, I hope they pull through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAuckland Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 hi...try below. 1. move them to an individual clinical tank....100% new water and PP 1 to 1.2mgs and salt 100 to 200gm per 100L or water for day one.. 2. day two 100% water change add metro 1.5gm plus 100 to 200gm of salt per 100L of water 3. day three 100% water change again and go back to NO.1..reason is there will some un-hatch bateria still remain inside.. 4. repeat same as No. 2..for 3 days...that should solve the problem.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 I have no idea if your fish has 'worms' or not but if it does, metronidazole should have minimal effect on nematodes and likely no effectiveness on tapeworms or flukes so you will need a different medication for those. Metronidazole is an anti-protzoal and anaerobic antibiotic so it will work on common flagellates like hexamita. Also, take care as metronidazole can build up in the tissues and cause kidney failure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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