TREATING HYDRA???

mmm so if its 4ml how many do you need for 300ltrs?

The vet told me 40ml.
I spilt some and used a paper towel and dripped it into the water, the fish are great and i see large dead hydras floating around. the parents i presume.
That tank doesnt get too many water changes.So a wc before treatment was fine.
But very true doesnt suit everyone, i have no inverts etc in that tank.just a chipokae.
Copper? can seachem cupramine do the job better?
 
After using the dog dewormer, I don't see any of the many hydras that were visible previously. I added the dewormer one night, and I didn't see any hydras the next morning. I'm going to keep an eye out just in case in comes back, but it seems to have worked wonderfully. All of my fish and inverts are OK.
 
lake_tuna said:
After using the dog dewormer, ( mine is a pig wormer, whats your active ingredient?)I don't see any of the many hydras that were visible previously. I added the dewormer one night, and I didn't see any hydras the next morning. I'm going to keep an eye out just in case in comes back, but it seems to have worked wonderfully. All of my fish and inverts are OK.
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that is excellent news !!!

I'm not dosing the angels tank.Will see how i go with less chemically based methods.
But chippys tank had the free floating dead large ones, which the filter removed, so I'm quite happy about that too.
 
I used Safe-guard Canine Dewormer. Active ingredient is fenbendazole at 222mg/g. So, it's 22.2% fenbendazole in the 1g packet.
 
glad to hear its working for you glad to also see your going to stop using so much chem based products sea chem is a great product but be very careful with what your adding into the tank and what chemicals are already in there and go the mystry snails i say but of course dont add if your going to dose with copper.
 
thanks
i just wondered if cupramine was safer than copper, i dont intend using it:)
I did manage to save 2 of my remaining angels from the intestinal outbreak that the neons had. By using metronidazole. So I'm really happy I didnt lose them all.
Also really glad I have my other angels in different tanks.
Its also more effective to use these drugs diluted in frozen food, then refreezed. Then the whole tank isnt wiped out of good bacteria.

So i used metro, did wc, then next day again in the food, and they are back to full health.
It causes so many problems dosing the whole tank, takes forever for it to stabilise again, as I have learnt, and alot of fish losses in the process. a nightmare really.

The best tanks I have are community tanks with heaps of fish, and I dont touch anything, dont add anything, no fish loss, so thats been the best lesson. :)
One tank though that i added heaps of stuff to, has never come good, seems like I'm in a continuous cycle. So agree with you on your advice :)
 
you would be very suprised at what tri sulfa and other drugs do to the bacteria its truley is amazing at how so little can kill so much so quickly, and adding copper to the water is completely harmless unless you have snails or shrimp and is easy removed with using geo liquid great stuff have u thought about using geo liquid in your tanks as its a all in one water conditioner but conditions and buffs the water to the standard of things like angels and discus and neons i use it in all my tanks even my marine tank its great stuff and never had any problems with it at all. some things just dont work for some tanks have you looked at changing the whole set up of the tank filter,gravel ect. just a note to self neons,gouramis,angels,guppys,mollys and platys are all well known for having worms make shure there wormed at least every three months. it dose suck when we learn the hard way about quarantining fish but even those who have done it for many years will sometimes make this mistake and kick themselfs for it later. hope things get brighter for you.
 
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