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My new niger trigger is covered in flatworms
Thank god I have him in QT.
How can I get these worms off him? They are crawling all over his body and eyeballs. lol I was thinking a freshwater dip. Match the temp and ph and dip him for 2mins. Does that sound like a good idea?
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Ya a fresh water dip will help. Flat worm exit by salifert works good as well
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If that does not work, how do I use the flatworm exit? Do I spray him with it with a syringe?
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Add it to the water he is in. I forgot the exact directions but QTing is the best/easiest way to apply. He needs to be in a tank with that for a certain amount of time. Directions are pretty straight forward. If I find directions I will post them,
It was $15 at my LFS. I passed what I had left to another reefer. We both used it on some acros. I think he has also passed it on to another reefer. Nothing like helping each other out!
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I've never seen a flatworm on a fish before. This would be totally new to me.
Flatworms are found on the sandbed, rocks, corals, clams etc. You need to do some more research on what type of parasite you're fish has. Flatworms are not a fish infecting parasite.
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If that doesn't work try Methylene Blue at a rate of 9 drops per gallon of fresh water. Use Sodium Bicarbonate or pure vinegar to adjust the pH to the tank pH. The Methylene Blue will treat a wide variety of flukes, external parasites, and gill parasites.
If you have a Q/T then I would suggest Seachem Cupermine.
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I had a royal gramma with a bad infestation of skin flukes and several minutes in a freshwater dip got rid of them all. Be sure to place the fish in quarantine for observation in the event that a few flukes survived the dip.
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Interesting.. well the freshwater dip worked perfectly.
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Some flukes require a good 10 minutes in FW to fall off/die.
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I only left him in there for 2min 30sec.
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is it possible to get a pic of what was on the fish?
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id like to see too
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It does not help that my cam sucks and the fish is almost black.
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When needed i give my fish a 7-8 minute FW dip. Going any longer than that can be risky, but much less can be totally ineffective.
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Thats good to hear. Just make sure to keep an eye on him to make sure that you got all of them, whatever they were. If not another dip may be in order. Triggers are pretty tough fish they can stand a FW dip longer than 2-3 minutes with no problem.
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Yeah, 10 min. is a long time, but I think a trigger can handle it.
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