Male Platy not feeling the best

Buzzthebuzzsaw

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I've had a male platy for about 4 months.
He's been perfectly fine up until recently where he seems to hide away and not eat.
I've seen some of the fish flash every so often, but have no way of checking if gill fluke are in the tank.
All the water parameters appear in check and I perform a 30% water change each week.
There's a fair few small baby guppy's in the tank, with 2 white cloud mountain minnows, 1 rubber nosed pleco, 1 ringed pleco, 2 cherry barbs, 4 neons, & 2 checkered barbs and 6 male guppy's.
The tank is 80L.

If anyone has any advice about what could be wrong or suggest a cure it'd be great!
Thanks.
 
If they are flicking on objects its a parasite, small grains of salt on the skin is whitespot, velvet can look yellowish or golden on the skin or even rust like, gill flukes red inflamed gills or pale, heavy breathing.
 
I've cured Whitespot before and Velvet, without too much hassle.
I've been looking for a way to get rid of gill fluke and haven't seen anything, any suggestions?
 
Coppersafe
Manufacturer: Mardel
Chelated copper treatment recommended for the treatment of ick, flukes, anchor worms, velvet, protozoan diseases and other external parasites.


Clout
Manufacturer: Aquarium Products
A very strong and effective medication for parasitic and protozoan infestations. Treats: Ich, Hydra, leeches, Planaria, Epistylis, Trichodina, Hexamita,Tetrahy-mena, body fungus, digenetic flukes, parasitic copepods, monogenetic flukes and anchor worms.


Maracide
Controls Ich and other common parasites
 
Would any treatment for Ich treat gill fluke?
I have some White Spot Terminator which contains Malachite Green, would that do the trick?
 
It could, but I would rather you get a med that treat gill flukes, hope they get well soon.
 

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