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Is it ok to medicate or dose food as a preventative? If I don't see any signs of white stringy poop can I still do it or is that a big NO?
All medications have side effects. JSo, I don't like to use them unnecessarily or unless the probability of a particular disease is high (ex. prophylactically using copper or CP to treat Marine Velvet Disease).
IME; most intestinal worms are mild and you will eventually see white stringy poop hanging out of your fish. So, don't food soak metro until you see that. It is even reef safe, so long as you also use Seachem Focus to bind the medication to the food.
@Humblefish, @melypr1985 , and anyone else that can help:
Have a leopard wrasse sick. I've had him for I think at least 2 months. He took about 2 weeks to come out of hiding and since then has eaten great and been very active. Only him and a pygmy angel in the tank (which was in the tank a month before him). They are in my second tank where I put new arrivals.
Feeding is live brine at least once daily (often twice) and also try to feed NLS pellets (which I never saw him eat) and frozen roggers food (which he eats occasionally but not to the degree he eats brine). Yesterday he was fine, active and eating, today when I came home from work he was laying on his side, breathing heavy and what looks like white poop coming out. It's not very stringy poop, more like two white balls stuck together.
I dosed Prazi based on some quick internet searching here, otherwise the only other medication I have on hand is furan-2 (although it's early enough I could buy something else and move him to a hospital tank, the current tank has LR and a few small frags).
Took a video:
Any thoughts on what I can do?
@melypr1985 Should I do a freshwater dip as well or would that stress him out even more?
@melypr1985 Based on another thread I'm reading now where you posted, I possibly should have done the freshwater dip before dosing Prazi. Sucks to learn now.
I apologize if this has been asked, but in regards to soaking food with meds, (metro/prazi) are they "reef safe" in the sense that inverts may consume that food as well? So really only harmful to corals?
I would use a binder (e.g. Seachem Focus) to make it "reef safe": https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/metronidazole.298762/#post-3655831
I guess more specifically, is metro safe for example a cleaner shrimp to ingest? It's almost impossible to keep those guys off of any consumable food put into a tank haha
Can the intestinal worms be treated by only treating the water ? With prazi or with Gc ?
In my experience, I've had very little luck with only treating the water. If you can get the fish to eat medicated food, it is far more likely to survive and overcome the infection. Dosing the water metro or gc is kind of a Hail Mary in order to get the fish to the point where it will eat medicated food.