Normal Flasher Behavior or Potential Flukes?

[shocker8786]

Hey everyone,

I have my first McCosker flasher wrasse in QT. He's been in QT for 4 weeks and had looked great. But now that I'm getting closer to introducing him to my display tank, I've been reading more about flukes and I'm wondering if I'm seeing signs, or just normal Flasher behavior. I've also seen him yawn a couple times over the past few days in addition to the behavior in the video below.

Should I be worried or am I being paranoid? Also what would the recommended treatment be? Seeing a lot of conflicting info for treating wrasses. Some say PraziPro, some say freshwater dip, some say both cause stress for wrasses and could kill the fish.

I want to treat if needed, but also don't want to introduce unecessary stress and potentially kill an otherwise healthy looking fish. Do you think the behavior warrants treating, and if so what protocol would you use for a flasher wrasse?

Edit: added YouTube link in case embedded video isn't working

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hey everyone,

I have my first McCosker flasher wrasse in QT. He's been in QT for 4 weeks and had looked great. But now that I'm getting closer to introducing him to my display tank, I've been reading more about flukes and I'm wondering if I'm seeing signs, or just normal Flasher behavior. I've also seen him yawn a couple times over the past few days in addition to the behavior in the video below.

Should I be worried or am I being paranoid? Also what would the recommended treatment be? Seeing a lot of conflicting info for treating wrasses. Some say PraziPro, some say freshwater dip, some say both cause stress for wrasses and could kill the fish.

I want to treat if needed, but also don't want to introduce unecessary stress and potentially kill an otherwise healthy looking fish. Do you think the behavior warrants treating, and if so what protocol would you use for a flasher wrasse?

Edit: added YouTube link in case embedded video isn't working

While these fish tend to flash, as part of recommended quarantine regimen, at 30 days of copper, you have run its course and often we recommend to follow with a praziPro regimen using PraziPro and dose at 85% of recommended dosage and apply initial dosage known as an interval for 8 days, do a water change and do one more 8 day dose interval. Add air stone with prazi which reduces oxygen and appetite slightly

 

[shocker8786]

While these fish tend to flash, as part of recommended quarantine regimen, at 30 days of copper, you have run its course and often we recommend to follow with a praziPro regimen using PraziPro and dose at 85% of recommended dosage and apply initial dosage known as an interval for 8 days, do a water change and do one more 8 day dose interval. Add air stone with prazi which reduces oxygen and appetite slightly

Thanks! Do you think the behavior observed is concerning our just recommend Prazi irregardless?

For the dosing, 85% of recommended, wait 8 days, water change (100%?), dose 85% again, wait another 8 days, then moved to display if all looks good?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Do prazi to be safe or at least see if continuous against objects

Thanks! Do you think the behavior observed is concerning our just recommend Prazi irregardless?

For the dosing, 85% of recommended, wait 8 days, water change (100%?), dose 85% again, wait another 8 days, then moved to display if all looks good?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Do prazi to be safe or at least see if continuous against objects

Prazi safe for most everything except feather dusters and will kill any bristleworms

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Hey everyone,

I have my first McCosker flasher wrasse in QT. He's been in QT for 4 weeks and had looked great. But now that I'm getting closer to introducing him to my display tank, I've been reading more about flukes and I'm wondering if I'm seeing signs, or just normal Flasher behavior. I've also seen him yawn a couple times over the past few days in addition to the behavior in the video below.

Should I be worried or am I being paranoid? Also what would the recommended treatment be? Seeing a lot of conflicting info for treating wrasses. Some say PraziPro, some say freshwater dip, some say both cause stress for wrasses and could kill the fish.

I want to treat if needed, but also don't want to introduce unecessary stress and potentially kill an otherwise healthy looking fish. Do you think the behavior warrants treating, and if so what protocol would you use for a flasher wrasse?

Edit: added YouTube link in case embedded video isn't working

Looks like it could be gill flukes. Don't do a FW dip - the wrasse will just get reinfected when you return it to the tank, plus it stresses the fish out. Prazipro can stress wrasse out, but in many of those cases, it was because people didn't aerate their tank properly, and yours seems fine in that regard. You do need to change up the instructions on the prazipro - those were written to control live bearing flukes and gill flukes are egg layers. You should dose it twice, 7 days apart. You need to also dose to the net volume of your tank - for example, a ten gallon tank typically holds about 8 gallons of water.

Hyposalinity is another option to treat flukes.

 

[shocker8786]

Thanks everyone, ordered some PraziPro will give that a go over the next few weeks.