So I had been treating fish with velvet using Chloroquine Phosphate. Initially I obtained it via EBay, which that didn’t pan out. I obtained CP from a different seller on eBay with same results. I attributed my failure with having not used pure CP or pharmaceutical grade CP.
So I finally was able to get a script for CP and ordered it from diamondback drugs. This time symptoms cleared up very quickly but after about 2 weeks I started seeing symptoms again. I then happened upon a YouTube video of a fish vet from here in South Florida who was discussing the use of CP. He mentioned that if you run into a tough strain of parasite like I did he advised to do a 50% water change and to re dose CP. I tried this again and after about two weeks had fish swimming up against the powerheads again. I did freshwater dips to rule out flukes and found nothing
I also read somewhere that CP degrades with light and that it needs to be redosed every week. I just find it scary to be adding so much medication without being able to test for it.
Am I the only one who has had issues with CP?
I eventually went back to Copper and fish appear fine after 4 weeks in treatment.
So I finally was able to get a script for CP and ordered it from diamondback drugs. This time symptoms cleared up very quickly but after about 2 weeks I started seeing symptoms again. I then happened upon a YouTube video of a fish vet from here in South Florida who was discussing the use of CP. He mentioned that if you run into a tough strain of parasite like I did he advised to do a 50% water change and to re dose CP. I tried this again and after about two weeks had fish swimming up against the powerheads again. I did freshwater dips to rule out flukes and found nothing
I also read somewhere that CP degrades with light and that it needs to be redosed every week. I just find it scary to be adding so much medication without being able to test for it.
Am I the only one who has had issues with CP?
I eventually went back to Copper and fish appear fine after 4 weeks in treatment.