bugz000
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Hey there,
note for admins: i am completely new to this forum so if i have done ANYTHING wrong at all - please do let me know so i can rectify it <3
I've successfully kept several tropical tanks in the past but this one has me worried
about 2 weeks ago i picked up a 200 or 250 gal tank (not sure which, will measure soon for the dosage of medicines) with pump/heater etc - very happy
stocked it up a little, things going well
then my brother decided to move to marine, so he give me all his tropical stock and a plant! AWESOME!
on closer inspection once they were in the tank, little red "hairs" protruding from the rear end of nearly every fish he brought - i inquired what they were and he didn't know - we chatted a while and he went home
i researched and identified this as a rife infection of camallanus worms - nightmare!
i've been reading horror story of people losing thousands worth of stock and resorting to ditching everything, bleaching the tank and starting from absolute scratch
as you can understand i really don't want to do this, i only bought my original stock about a week ago
and as i understand the whole tank is pretty much infected at this point so i've moved the worst ones into a quarantine tank and what's left is small fry he brought in the main tank (impossible to catch)
my quarantine tank leaves a lot to be desired but i'm panicking a little - my logic being as the worms die with treatment - i'd rather them fall into the smaller tank than to scatter around the bigger tank
and any which come out of the fish in the bigger tank will have a lesser chance of being eaten as there's less of them
i've read up and found two medications which seem to be popular
there are snails in here, and i'd like to keep them but are they also prone to these worms? if i move them to my cold tank (aparently they're happy to move to cold - says the pet store) - will they carry worms to my goldfish?
he brought round a ton of tetras aswell but none of them appear to be affected by the worms - are they more immune to them?
this is a cry for help because online sources are erratic in advice, stating wildly different dosages, treatment durations, some treat the whole tank, some drain the tank to a couple inches - at this point i've read pretty much every article on these worms, and from the unreliable resources provided i'm left not knowing what to do
what i'm asking of you guys is to maybe walk through this with me?
suggest a treatment - i post result, so on - i need an experienced eye to watch over the whole thing
i'm sure some of you out there has dealt with this before - is what i've done so far good?
i have so many questions but i'll surely learn from all this
and i thank you all so much in advance - i'm sure you get these kinds of posts a lot - but i truly do appreciate it, i'm asking for years of experience to be thrown my way without charge to cover for my inexperience, and for that i thank you all <3
note for admins: i am completely new to this forum so if i have done ANYTHING wrong at all - please do let me know so i can rectify it <3
I've successfully kept several tropical tanks in the past but this one has me worried
about 2 weeks ago i picked up a 200 or 250 gal tank (not sure which, will measure soon for the dosage of medicines) with pump/heater etc - very happy

stocked it up a little, things going well

then my brother decided to move to marine, so he give me all his tropical stock and a plant! AWESOME!

on closer inspection once they were in the tank, little red "hairs" protruding from the rear end of nearly every fish he brought - i inquired what they were and he didn't know - we chatted a while and he went home

i researched and identified this as a rife infection of camallanus worms - nightmare!
i've been reading horror story of people losing thousands worth of stock and resorting to ditching everything, bleaching the tank and starting from absolute scratch
as you can understand i really don't want to do this, i only bought my original stock about a week ago
and as i understand the whole tank is pretty much infected at this point so i've moved the worst ones into a quarantine tank and what's left is small fry he brought in the main tank (impossible to catch)


my quarantine tank leaves a lot to be desired but i'm panicking a little - my logic being as the worms die with treatment - i'd rather them fall into the smaller tank than to scatter around the bigger tank
and any which come out of the fish in the bigger tank will have a lesser chance of being eaten as there's less of them
i've read up and found two medications which seem to be popular
- Levamisole
- Fenbendazole
there are snails in here, and i'd like to keep them but are they also prone to these worms? if i move them to my cold tank (aparently they're happy to move to cold - says the pet store) - will they carry worms to my goldfish?
he brought round a ton of tetras aswell but none of them appear to be affected by the worms - are they more immune to them?
this is a cry for help because online sources are erratic in advice, stating wildly different dosages, treatment durations, some treat the whole tank, some drain the tank to a couple inches - at this point i've read pretty much every article on these worms, and from the unreliable resources provided i'm left not knowing what to do
what i'm asking of you guys is to maybe walk through this with me?
suggest a treatment - i post result, so on - i need an experienced eye to watch over the whole thing
i'm sure some of you out there has dealt with this before - is what i've done so far good?
i have so many questions but i'll surely learn from all this
and i thank you all so much in advance - i'm sure you get these kinds of posts a lot - but i truly do appreciate it, i'm asking for years of experience to be thrown my way without charge to cover for my inexperience, and for that i thank you all <3
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