API General Cure - Protein Skimmer?

[president89]

Should I turn off my protein skimmer when using API General cure?

 

[Breakthecycle2]

Are you dosing in your main tank?

 

[president89]

Yes - fish only.

 

[Breakthecycle2]

What do they have?

 

[president89]

Internal Parasites - White poop and getting skinny. Looking for an answer to the skimmer question. I think it's uncommon to actually dose a tank with a skimmer, so I haven't been able to find info.

 

[Breakthecycle2]

Internal Parasites - White poop and getting skinny. Looking for an answer to the skimmer question. I think it's uncommon to actually dose a tank with a skimmer, so I haven't been able to find info.

You should shut off the skimmer, but I wouldn't use that for internal parasites. Use metro in food, prazi pro in food or Dr G's medicated foods.

 

[president89]

You should shut off the skimmer, but I wouldn't use that for internal parasites. Use metro in food, prazi pro in food or Dr G's medicated foods.

API general cure has metro and praziquantel.

 

[Breakthecycle2]

API general cure has metro and praziquantel.

Well, you aren't giving any details, so it would impossible to know how many fish you need to treat. Treating just water for internal parasites isn't going to work that well either.

 

[president89]

I would think treating the water would be the best. Fish drink the water they swim in. Medicated food can be very hit or miss.

 

[Humblefish]

@president89 Read this: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/internal-parasites-intestinal-worms.267419/

 

[president89]

So I dosed the general cure per the directions. Changed water, redosed, changed water again per the instructions. I didn't run carbon to remove. Then I fed the fish some topdressed pellets with metro. Basically NLS pellets, top dressed with seachem metro, seachem focus, with some fish oil to bind it. The fish are still dying. I'm wondering if I over medicated them... This is a clownfish growout with a couple hundred fish.

 

[Humblefish]

@president89 Could there be another disease present? Brook?

 

[president89]

No visible symptoms...Just getting skinny, rapid breathing and death. I suppose I can. Look closer, but I hadn't seen anything that made me think otherwise.

 

[president89]

These fish are 1" so it is hard to see symptoms. I'll keep an eye on them.