They are in a QT right? If it were me, I’d probably remove the rock and treat them with metroplex. Externally in a the water column for 14 days, and internally by binding he medication to food once they start eating again, for at least 10 days.
If you’d like to cover the possibility of flukes, you can replace the second dose and the dose 6 days after (you dose metroplex every 48 hours) with general cure. You can feed general cure in the place of the metroplex for a stronger dewormer as well.
This would give you at least a base coverage for brook, intestinal parasites, and flukes prophylactically.
I treat all of my fish prophylactically... I just can’t risk the chance of making a mistake in judgement and having something take out all of my fish.
Here is a good link describing a possible prophylactic treatment schedule for quarantine. I follow a similar ideology, just might tweak it a bit based on the type of fish in qt, the specific condition of said fish, and my own personal preferences.
My Current QT Process
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?sh...ds/My-Current-QT-Process.483371/&share_type=t
If you’d like to cover the possibility of flukes, you can replace the second dose and the dose 6 days after (you dose metroplex every 48 hours) with general cure. You can feed general cure in the place of the metroplex for a stronger dewormer as well.
This would give you at least a base coverage for brook, intestinal parasites, and flukes prophylactically.
I treat all of my fish prophylactically... I just can’t risk the chance of making a mistake in judgement and having something take out all of my fish.
Here is a good link describing a possible prophylactic treatment schedule for quarantine. I follow a similar ideology, just might tweak it a bit based on the type of fish in qt, the specific condition of said fish, and my own personal preferences.
My Current QT Process
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?sh...ds/My-Current-QT-Process.483371/&share_type=t
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