Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
Callamanus Treatment - Help!
( So far I can only see the worm on one fish I really hope I've caught it early enough. Please Log in to join the conversation.
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I had same problem a while ago, used DRONTAL which is cat and dog worming tablets. Active substance is PRAZIQUANTEL which suppose to be very effective against all kind of intestine worms
I will not tell u any dosage cause don't want to kill your fish and if u decide to use it i wash my hands clean
Anyways i crushed it into dust dissolved in water and mixed with some food
The only problem is that some of the fish doesn't like the taste of it.
Lvamisole HCL is hard to get cause is licensed for use with cattle only in this country even though, vets don't stock it and were very suspicious when i was talking about using it with tropical fish. Fail to get it anyway.
Didn't give up though and found treatment for tropical fish wit levamisole in it, in Poland. It's produced by ZOOLEK and the name is CAPITOX. Will be getting some in 6-7 weeks to have it stocked just in case
will give u shout in case u still need it
good luck
Bart
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I dont know whether im dosing incorrectly or the fish arent eating enough of the brine shrimp, either way its not working
Im going to stop treating the tank for now until i can find a more effective treatment.
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I think I've finally beaten it, a couple of days after stopping treatment the fish with the worm passed a large black stool(which I think was dead worms) and the worm passed with it, since then I haven't seen any at all and both female guppies have since dropped fry.
I lost all fish other than 3 guppies though
( I reckon the treatment could of killed off bacteria in my tank and I had a massive ammonia spike.I'm hoping that this is the last I'll ever see of this worm and will be trying to get my hands on some Levamisol HCL to use as a preventative treatment when I decide to put any new fish into the tank.
I hope my experience can be a help to someone else!!
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The dreaded worm made an appearance again this morning, a different fish this time.
Had a feeling it wasn't the last I'd seen of it, it just seemed to give up too easily
I'm going to give the anti-parasite food a go, I've got guppy fry now though, will they be able to eat it? or would an in-water treatment be better?
Thanks again everyone!
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