Help, Sick Lion!!!!

[svb57]

I have a Volitan Lion fish in a 120G tank w/ Bursa trigger, Snowflake Eel, and a Foxface Lo... The lion fish has done well since I got him in March. Eating silvers sides from day one. Over the last five days he has started to show very bad health signs: fading color, eyes clouding over, not eating, slugish.

Water parameters: temp 82, specific gravity 1.021, ammonia 0, nitrite 0 , nitrate 40

Help!! Not sure what is happening and what should be done!!!

[beester15]

To me it sounds like flukes. If you have a quarantine tank set it up and use the proper medicine (fluke tabs, pennicillin, copper) or you could freshwater dip it but, i don't like to use that method. There are many ways to cure the situation and you have to find what would work best. (don't mix medications)
good luck

[svb57]

Could really use some help here folks. Anyone!!!!!

[Gem Tang Rider]

Have you posted in the fish disease forum?

[svb57]

Thanks!!

I have posted in there now.

[Mad Scientist]

Go and buy some meds - something wide-spectrum (some of that maracin brand stuff works very well). IME if you treat a lion like this fast they almost all recover - if you don't they almost always die.

BTW, do a 25% water change asap - that's always a good thing to do in this situation.

[svb57]

I went and purchased a product called "PraziPro"...Treats flukes, tapeworm, flatworms, turbellarians...

Contains: oxybispropanol (sp) and praziquantel