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I have a female panduro that has been staying up at the surface with her mouth wide open. I have isolated her from the other fish by putting her in a strainer hanging down in to the tank such that she can rest on the bottom of it and not have to work to keep at the surface. She has been this...
Unfortunately, all but one died. I think they were unable to ingest the daphnia. The one that survived I saw feeding on daphnia and I continued to feed him Metrinidazole-dosed daphnia for some time after the others had passed. I am still watching the remaining one and am not adding any new...
IME brine shrimp are more work than daphnia. You can get Daphnia magna from Dallas Discus. They ship priority mail and their prices are reasonable. Daphnia magna reach a good size (about 0.5 cm) and are really robust.
My guess is that bbs would tolerate metronidazole just fine. I was...
Yes, the daphnia tolerate the Metronidazole fairly well. I'm using 1000 mg/L and letting them sit in that for a couple hours. They noticeably slow down but I don't see any drop out. My fish, I'm not sure about. It's hard for me to tell if they're ingesting the daphnia because my tank is...
That gives you alot more insight when it comes to fish than the average person. I appreciate your help.
I found a scientific paper where the researchers fed Metronidazole to Daphnia magna and found they could go as high as 1000 mg/L Metronidazole for 48 hours before they saw a toxic effect...
That makes sense, thanks for the explanation. I will treat with the Metronidazole for now and in the meantime get a hold of some Levamisole in case I need to treat with that. Hopefully they’ll respond to the Metronidazole.
What sort of work do you do, Andrew?
I have Metronidazole which is made by Seachem. Their directions say to use 125 mg/40 L. I'm a little confused about the wide range of suggested dosages. Could this be due to different formulations of the drug? Seachem's Metronidazole comes in powder form and is supposed to be 100%...
I'm from San Francisco. I'll check around to see what I can get here but maybe the problem was I wasn't using a sufficient dose of Metronidazole.
I'm trying Beleg's idea just in case they take in a few of the daphnia. I know daphnia are really sensitive to any toxins so I'm starting with a...
Thanks for your reply Andrew. The dose I used was what was advised by my LFS, however when my fish failed to show signs of recovery, I did some internet searches to ascertain whether my dose of Metronidazole was too low and this seemed to be right on. I will try the higher dose, maybe that...
Hi, I wonder if someone can give me some advice for my panduros. I noticed a couple of weeks ago that my male panduro was spitting out his food. I also later observed his feces were pale and stringy. From the information I pieced together on this forum, I concluded he had internal parasites...