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Boy. I'm sure late to this party. Sorry guys.. had to work. Looks like Humble had you covered though!
I think my online habits have unknowingly synced up with your work schedule lol
That's pretty lucky!
Epsom salt? Isn't that interesting!@melypr1985 @Brew12 If nothing else, I believe @Orcus Varuna has discovered a new option to help relieve constipated fish: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4502860/
Epsom salt? Isn't that interesting!
I wonder if it would have the same impact on marine parasites. Treat popeye and parasites at the same time!
I can see how Epsom salt would "flush the parasites out", but they would then be in the water column to infect another fish. Metro supposedly kills them inside the intestines and then the fish poops them out.
Which could be useful if the infected fish is alone in the QT and moved do another, sterile QT right after. Though I think metro would still be needed to be fed. The likelihood of flushing all the parasites in one go is pretty low wouldn't you think?
What are your thoughts on a pretreatment with metro prior to performing the Epsom salt cleanse? If you think I should pretreat any reccomendations on duration would be helpful. Finally, will any store bought Epsom salt work or is there a specific brand I should buy?
I'm not sure copper would kill them. It doesn't kill things like flukes, so if it killed some it probably wouldn't kill all. I think the safest thing to do is to just feed with metroplex and focus (or hexsheild if that contains metroplex) and kill the parasite in the gut before it get's pooped out. It doesn't seem feasible to flush live ones from the fish only to have them or another fish eat them again.Wait are you guys saying the fish runs the risk of pooping out live parasites and reinfecting it's self of not removed after every poop? If so then a separate qt would be requiredI wonder would copper kill these parasites once they were free floating?
You can use the pure epsom salt from the pharmacy portion of the store. You don't want any that has dyes or fragrance added to it.
I'm not sure copper would kill them. It doesn't kill things like flukes, so if it killed some it probably wouldn't kill all. I think the safest thing to do is to just feed with metroplex and focus (or hexsheild if that contains metroplex) and kill the parasite in the gut before it get's pooped out. It doesn't seem feasible to flush live ones from the fish only to have them or another fish eat them again.
You would plan to feed them once a day for a minimum of 10 days but probably more like 2 or even 3 weeks since some of these intestinal parasites can be stubborn.
Am I missing the metro in the ingredients list? My eyes must be getting bad...
Haha
IH-imadazole-..... Is the IUPAC name for metronidazole