Callamanus - Alternative Treatment

[swany]

For those of you willing to experiment. This worked for me...

I recently purchased a vitamin supplement product called "VitaTrace" made by Kordon. As with my other vitamin supplements, I added it to the food and let it soak a couple of minutes. The packaging, however, states to only add it to the water. So, I did that too. Well, I love to experiment. Soon after feeding my "vitamin enriched" food, the fish affected with Callamanus were swimming about normally, however, I noticed the worms getting very agitated and looking like they were trying to leave. They were coming out much further than they ever had. I did not watch long enough to see if they would actually drop out, but now about a month later, my fish no longer shows signs of infection. In fact, none of my fish show signs of infection.

If there are other "experimenters" out there to test this product for callamanus, I would love to hear your results. This could, "very very hopefully" produce an enormous breakthrough on treatment options and save our fish the horrible stress of being treated with levamisole.

This only appeared to work with the "vitaTrace", I also added it to the water as suggested by the product packaging.

 

[wally 666]

nice post

 

[silentskream]

ooh! very interesting.
i'm curious to hear results!

 

[Star_Rider]

Camallanus??
there are other option for the parasite..fenbenzadole and flubenzadole are the other options.
I have never had a bad exerience with Levamisole Hcl. it does need to be used in 3-4 weeks to retreat as the parasite may shed and leave eggs.

reinfestaion occurs in many cases..fenbenzadole will kill the eggs.

I have not heard of using vitamins..the worms do live in the digestive tract of the fish and will pull nitrients from the digestive tract..the issue comes when the worm over populates the system..
the use of vitamins is interesting and I would becurious of the results..could it be possible that the vitamins allow the fish to get the upper hand?
keep a close eye in the tanks and the inhabitants.

 

[swany]

Thanks peoples! I would really love it if someone else would try this treatment to see if they get similar results. Any takers?

 

[12 Volt Man]

careful.

when the worms are poking out far they are the female parasites releasing live larvae into the tank..

just be on the look out.

just because you don't see the worms poking out does not mean they are not still inside the fish.

that is what is so evil about camallanus.

I have battled them before, back when there was very little info about them on the web (2000). The problem is the fish can go for a long time without showing the worms and then one day boom! there they are.

Not saying it didn't work, but be warned: the little buggers are very resistant parasites.

I would be surprised if them vitamins killed them. But like Star_Rider said, vitamins can be used as an immune system booster, so maybe it worked. lets hope so.

this is not meant to discourage you or anything like that, just a friendly warning to be careful!

keep us updated!