Levamisole/Guppy Fry

[GuppyGoddess]

Hello,

I asked on the live bearer section but nobody has responded. . .so, hopefully someone may have answers here. . .

I would like to dose my guppy tank with levamisole. There are two young females in there - about 1/2" long. Are they too little to be dosed up? The tank is 5.5 gallon and those two little girls, a male guppy, and a male pygmy cory.

Thanks.

ETA - reason for dosing is b/c months back a camallanus worm was found on one fish, which I took out. Yesterday I culled a guppy (very thin but no signs of camallanus) and I need to find a replacement for him so my son doesn't notice his fish is missing! If I put another fish in there, I want to be sure ALL of them are safe from possibly internal parasites.

 

[Jenste]

generally if the medicine is safe for the adults it is safe for the young...they are the same genetically - if it eases your mind you can do multiple partial doses instead of just the larger main dose

 

[WILDER]

When using meds with fry you have to half dose.

With levaimsole they say you can't overdose.
Contact laurafrog she used interanal wormers with fry I think.

 

[GuppyGoddess]

Okay, will do. I brought home another male and want to stick him directly into the tank (after acclimating, of course), so I'm going to do a big water change here in a bit and then get him set up. I couldn't find a duplicate of the fish I culled, but found a pretty orange one and need to get him in b/c I don't have a quarantine tank. Then will add levamisole tomorrow. One of the fry looks like she's going to have a gorgeous tale! I'm excited to have fry and fry that are WORM FREE, if I can get the meds to work.

I don't want to have to buy guppies again. . .at least right now. Aquabid sure has some tempting ones.

 

[WILDER]

Good luck. Never had any luck with guppys myself.

 

[GuppyGoddess]

Laurafrog mailed me back and she used another product and said her fry seemed to do fine. She had a lot though, so if a few died, it'd be difficult to find remains.

I've had terrible luck with guppies, as well. Not only are the ones I'm raising always sickly in some manner, I cannot find any store that carries healthy ones. I ended up getting the newest guppy at a chain store b/c it was the only place that had decent guppies. Or moreover, I think that is one of the few stores that removes sick fish from the tanks rather than letting them swim around spreading disease. One mom/pop store I was shopping at told me they never kill sick fish, which clearly was proven by the grotest guppies they had swimming around.

My son LOVES his guppies so I'll try and make it work. All my other tanks have bettas I wish I had just put a betta in my son's tank to begin with. That is what his brother has.

 

[WILDER]

I love guppys too. Tryed keeping them 3 times but gave up in the end.

Try and find a good breeder of them.