The main purpose of this thread is to provide a place for people to discuss their experiences dealing with Prazi resistant flukes.
In my first ever attempt at QTing my fish I seem to have encountered Prazi resistant flukes (hurray!). Some searches on r2r and other forums indicated to me that this experience was becoming more common, so I thought it might be helpful to start a thread on it for people to share their experiences.
I am about to try a treatment using fenbendazole that @Humblefish recommended and @GoldeneyeRet has used.
The treatment is as follows- (below is a quote from Humblefish):
Noga recommends treating with fenbendazole @ 25mg/L (95mg/gal) in a 12 hour bath in order to eradicate monogeneans (flukes). The fish should be transferred to a clean/sterile QT post bath in order to prevent reinfection. He doesn't say in his book if a second bath (5-7 days later) is necessary like it is with prazi, but for now I would do it for good measure. Again, transfer the fish into a clean/sterile QT following the 12 hr bath treatment.
@GoldeneyeRet has suggested that fenbendazole may only require a single treatment based on his experience.
I will do 1 bath and then a move to a sterile observation tank and let people know what happens.
For others who have this problem- how did it go for you? What treatments did you use? what worked and didn’t work?
In my first ever attempt at QTing my fish I seem to have encountered Prazi resistant flukes (hurray!). Some searches on r2r and other forums indicated to me that this experience was becoming more common, so I thought it might be helpful to start a thread on it for people to share their experiences.
I am about to try a treatment using fenbendazole that @Humblefish recommended and @GoldeneyeRet has used.
The treatment is as follows- (below is a quote from Humblefish):
Noga recommends treating with fenbendazole @ 25mg/L (95mg/gal) in a 12 hour bath in order to eradicate monogeneans (flukes). The fish should be transferred to a clean/sterile QT post bath in order to prevent reinfection. He doesn't say in his book if a second bath (5-7 days later) is necessary like it is with prazi, but for now I would do it for good measure. Again, transfer the fish into a clean/sterile QT following the 12 hr bath treatment.
@GoldeneyeRet has suggested that fenbendazole may only require a single treatment based on his experience.
I will do 1 bath and then a move to a sterile observation tank and let people know what happens.
For others who have this problem- how did it go for you? What treatments did you use? what worked and didn’t work?
