Treating fish with parasitic worms, fish stopped eating and has stringy white pooh.
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- Опубликовано: 20 ноя 2016
- Fish that stop eating and begin emitting translucent or stringy white faeces can be infected with various parasites. In this video we show you how we diagnose and treat a flowerhorn cichlid fish infected with parasitic worms.
Infected fish may show clinical signs of chronic weight loss, potbelly, “poor doers”, gut inflammation, mucoid white faeces, and inappetance. It is a zoonotic disease (i.e. humans can potentially catch it!). In humans, the clinical symptoms include diarrhoea, abdominal pain, weight loss, dehydration. Capillariasis may be fatal if treatment is not given early.
Your tank may become infected if fed tubifex worms, or by introducing infected fish. It has a direct life cycle, and can reinfect the same fish, or other fish in the tank, building up in numbers.
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Thank you very much for taking the time to make this video! You really helped me out tonight with what was a mystery fish issue in my tank! Side note: Those two fish behind you interacting with each other through the tank wall was pretty cute.
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2mg levamisol per litter, for three weeks, once a week. Thanks :)
i'm learning so much from this dude. so thanks dude
Thanks for posting these videos these r very helpful
as always very informative and spot on!
My Ottocinclus catfish has stopped eating from three days what should I do please help
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Great video keep it up doc we need more of your peeps to make videos.
Please always mention the medicine names in text format on video, so that all can exactly know the medicine names...... Thank you
Ya what medicine pls Mention...
My angelfish also have same problem...which is medicine is required and how to use
@@TG_Vlogs64 metrozyl
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@@TG_Vlogs64ivermectin or levamisole. Praziquantel and fenbendazole also work quite well.
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Hi Fish Doc!!! Thank you so much!!
What a wonderful video thank you!
Love these vids, can't wait for more.
Ohhh! Thank you sooo much!!!
Dr. Richmond Loh, kudos on the video excellent, much respect for taking the time to share your knowledge.
Thank you
Please do a video explanation of the most common pathogens and parasites found on freshwater and saltwater fish. And explain what they are the cause and the best treatments to try.
Thank you so much!
So if i got the conversions right,
.5 mg for a 53 gallon tank (55 im guessing)
So for a 200 gallon tank i would need 2 mg
And for a 10 gallon tank .1mg
Ive seen other youtubers that were suggesting 10mg every 3 weeks for a 200 gallon.
Your method is 2mg every week for 3 weeks.
What are your thoughts of dosing preventive? Every 3 months?
How does the water get in that filter?love the idea greatly appreciate the information!
Hi Dr. Loh.. could you tell me what is the magnificent you use?? 100x?
Thanks Dr Loh
Good job doc
I know this video is a few years old now but I love seeing real biology when it comes to fishkeeping. I am currently treating one of my cichlids with ivermectin but I will bring some feces in to work with me tomorrow to check out the progress and see what I can find :)
Let us know your findings
@@thefishdoctor8746 Yes, I brought a feces sample into my lab and he did have a couple of different parasites that I could see. It was not the stringy white feces that first alerted me to my electric blue acara (who is so sweet) being sick. He usually comes up and eats from my hand but he wasn't and his color started to look washed out. That's when I noticed the white feces and quarantined immediately. He is doing much better now. His tank mates (rainbow fish, bristlenose, and an angelfish) all seem fine but I am also putting them through a round of meds before I put my cichlid back with his friends.
Dr Loh, do you recommend using praziquantel and metronidazole as prophylaxis for Discus? Thank you very much!
Can you tell some details about treatment? After adding the medicine when is the first water change and how much med will be added again?
Hi, thank you for making this video. So for levamisole treatment it is once a week for three weeks and not once a week at alternate weeks right? There is so many confusing instructions online. Some says eggs only hatch after 2 weeks so the second treatment should only be after 2 weeks.
THanks Dr. Loh, this video saved my flowerhorn’s Life! He is now on the fast track to recovery. Today he ate for the first time in 2.5wks and couldn’t be happier! Once again, thanks a million!!
where did you get levamisole?
Great video! I hope i can learn much from you and can use it on my fish (what i hope i'll not have to!). New Sub!
I’ve been trying to get rid of internal parasites for many many months now. I have used a couple different medications multiple times with seemingly no luck. I haven’t lost any of the 11 discus yet, but it’s affected weight gain greatly with many of them.
Hello Dr., 6 weeks ago, we added 12 discus fries(1.25" to 2.25") from a local breeder (Boston MA tap water) in our established 75gal planted community. (Let me just share that this gentleman gave us 8 "runts" that was below his standards because of our interest in attempting our hands on discus!)
Chemistry has been stable; 7.6 pH, 0 ppm for Ammo, NO2, and NO3 at around 78 degrees. Our plants have been pearling, we gravel vac daily for loose detritus, everyone has been active and eating extremely well!
Now, 3 weeks ago, we lost one of the smallest discus fry, followed by a second 5 days later. (The first two fries had physical deformities; one had a missing eye, the other deformed gill plates.) A third fry died a week after and today our fourth.
Now, Today's fry had a slightly bulging belly and what appeared to be white, curly and stringy fecal matter from its anal area. I had noticed also one of the (2.5" live) larger fry with a similar white strand 2 days ago, which raised some concerns for the tank.
Should we treat the whole tank, and for what...what would be the ideal medication for a planted community with shrimp and snails? TIA
Many of our treatments have not been trialled for safety in shrimp and snails, so I'm unable to advise. In such cases, it's advisable to remove the invertebrates from the tank during treatment and then return them after a period of 1 month, after carbon filtration.
I have a question. My endlers had internal parasites because I did not put the new ones into a quarantine tank. I've been treating them for maybe more than a month now, and I stopped the treatment like two weeks ago. But their poop is often long, it is not entirely clear, but parts of the poop are sometimes clear. Does this mean they still have the parasite?
Very nice thank you so much , but where I can get this live Amazon??
Super awesome video Dr. Do you do repeated doses to target the adult life cycles of the nematode (im assuming the younger stages don't respond to the acetylcholine receptor agonist? If so, at what interval? Thanks again for these videos!
Finally the answer what's the problem with my betta
omg thank you so much for posting these videos. More legit info = more healthy fish :-)
Your fish cm
My Ottocinclus catfish has stopped eating from three days what should I do please help
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Dr Loh, very glad I found your channel. I don't know how many of your videos I watched until I could stop. Very informative. I learned a lot.
Now to my question and the reason I started watching in the first place.
We had a series of deaths among our African Cichlids. Very typical signs of bloat and Hexamita. Every time we thought that we beat it, a new individual got sick. We haven't been able to treat a single one. Maybe we didn't start in time or maybe the medicines haven't been the right ones. We have tried with metronidazole, sterazine and mebendazol. We have tried treating the whole tank and also treating the patient alone. Yesterday, our Geophagus Steindashneri drew her last breath. Before that, her partner died in the same disease. It's always one fish at the time. Never several.
The fish starts by hiding and being alone. Doesn't feed. Have stringy white poo. Breathing frequently but not like gasping for air. After a week or so, it starts swimming as is it couldn't hold it's balance, like a drunk person. When you can catch it just by hand, it's gone very far. Mucus covers the body and in the final stages the fins starts to deteriorate. They just kind of melt away.
We tried treating them from the first signs and not treating them at all. So far no one survived.
Now we have a Danakilia Sp. Shukoray who's been sick for some time now. She is isolated for now and I'm treating her with Flagyl at the moment.
My husband is a doctor in an ER and can prescribe medication equivalent to veterinarian medicine. So the Flagyl and Vermox came from him. The dosage has been exactly what's subscribed by regular fish meds.
I recently ordered a microscope that can enlarge 600x. I saved the Geophagus in the freezer. It should arrive today.
Is there anything you can suggest that my husband should prescribe other than these meds? Is levamisole possible to prescribe for a regular doctor?
Do you always have to know the bacteria to treat it? What could work in a broad spectrum?
The microscope I ordered doesn't have a USB extension so I couldn't possibly take pics but my husband is an expert in recognizing internal critters so he could absolutely be able to see and identify the bacteria.
As you can see from my long post, we are desperate. We have lost so many nice and expensive fish here. Also, we live in Sweden and can't therefor come with our fish to you.
I hope I described this as thoroughly as possible.
(1000L/265G tank. All our water parameters are excellent, water changes weekly and feces are syphoned. Only Af. Cichlids are the victims. None of the other fish ever died from this.)
Thank you so much!
I just got some from Ebay,its only like 100SKR for the Levamisole for a 1000 liter
Sounds complex. Submit fish for testing to a veterinary laboratory. I offer such services in Australia.
The white body mucus, drunken swimming, and advanced fin rot sound like columnaris, which is a vicious bacteria. Once columnaris is inside a water column, it’s impossible to get rid of without a full breakdown and bleach cleanse of absolutely everything in the tank. Highly contagious, very common, especially in larger chain stores.
I recently purchased a school of panda corydoras, and they started exhibiting signs of columnaris while in quarantine. Despite aggressive antibiotic treatment, I lost all but two of them. One of the survivors has such advanced fin rot on the tail, he probably won’t live beyond a year, if that.
Columnaris is an absolute plague. Acraflavine and terramycin do a good job of combating it, though.
Hi so what was that worm looking thing you mentioned as normal tank flora? I' ve seen it before. I thought it was a parasite
Handsome, smart and taking care great care of animals = jackpot
Fenbendazole works great too
From what ive read, isnt levamisole light sensitive? Or is it ok to treat with light? And ive read 24 hour bath, 2ppm. So will thag work?
you are awesomeee
Can we give levamisol safely to Siamese fighting fish and loaches.
Pls mentaioned dosage and alternative as levimisole is banned in few countries.
What specific med is best to treat sunken belly is cichlids?
What would you recommend fembendazole or praziquantel?
Hi Doctor, few guppies in my aquarium are infected with camalanus worms.. Red color worm showing up at the vent. What treatment do you suggest?
thank-you for the video i have a 10 gallon tank of swordtail fry aprox 3-4 weeks old once in a while iv seen a couple flashing I see no clamped fins or spots on them or their fins do i need to mediate and if so with what could you please do a video and do a touch up on this situation or guid me to someone that has done the video so i can learn what to do
I am glad I found your channel.. my v-tail beta Male has been let active and seems not to want to eat.. I found a stringy thing where his under dorsal fins and it had like a little clump at the end and I don’t know what to do.. just a few days ago it was gone like he pooped it out.. i DONT know wether it’s a wolf or something but my fish won’t eat and is just sitting at the bottom of the tank breathing yes but just sits there
I saved my flowerhorn with this treatment thank you very much doctor
narendran ravi what dosage did you used? Pls help thanks
What is the medicine name and dosage plx
Can I use albendazole instead of Levamisole as I am not getting Levamisole solution
how long after treat should you see improvement and eating?
Dr thank you for your vid. Can you let us know what happens to Betty blue...thank you
Just saw your channel, hope you have new videos, thanks
Hello Dr fishman, my fish has a developing diamond eye. does putting salt on it work?
Hi Dr. Loh, as part of the treatment with Levamisole (or any other Bendazole) for parasites, should aquarium water changes (30%) be performed after administering the final dose of the medication? Also, are lethargy and poor appetite common adverse effects of these medications? Thank you.
We normally allow at least 24h for the drug to exert its effects in the water. Perform weekly water changes as normal.
Hello Doc! I'm from Brazil, one of my "Acará Bandeira" fishes, was swollen, white pooh and appear a hole in its head. It is recovered after 5 days on "hospital tank" with some weak fish's medicines available in Brazil (import fish's antibiotics are banned). Well, but other "Acará" has a white pooh, and some white spots in its tail. I think that main tank was infected. My friend goes to USA and brings me Seachem Paraguard. This medicine is effective to treat my main tank? What do you recommend? Thank you.
Hi, great video. Question. When your fish produces white poop with a little black at the end does that automatically mean it can have an internal parasite? Thanks
i love him...
do you need to isolate the fish or can i add it to my community tank? i assume the other fish have also been exposed.
Dr.can I use dichris adult 150 mg for internal parasites in my discus tank
My Ottocinclus catfish has stopped eating from three days what should I do please help
metronidazole vs levamisole can you use both at same time and are there diff symtoms for the diff parasites besides stringy poop?you should do a video on the different internal parasites.
Thank u for the info. what is the best was to treat for ick
Down south Cichlids watch ruclips.net/video/xn2EbgxDiZk/видео.html
My flowerhorn has this too what medicine did you use ? I also have another Flowerhorn that starts to cough out of no where like heck. what can it be ?
Dr Richmond how can you tell me the difference between the male and female oscar?
Thank u sir ur medication is best and it work plz sir do video for chiclid ich
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I have a fish that is not eating and that is pooping white. It is In a 1 of 4 tanks that all use the same sump filter. I have about 25 fish in all in my set up. Would it be best to treat all of the fish even if they are not all showing this problem. I believe the one that is sick is a flowerhorn hybrid. Not sure exactly what it is.
Fish Dr. what are your thoughts on Zedrix Guardian or Cz clear for white poop issues? I currently use your treatment but have seen others use the medicines mentioned above. THANKS FOR THE VIDEOS!!!
See thefishvet.com/2017/04/13/%e2%80%8bever-wondered-whats-in-fish-medicines-do-they-work/
Hey doc how should i add the second dose after the one week water change? Should i add the dose required only for the quantity of water changed or should i add the second dose the same quantity as the first?
My goldfish is having white poops. I gave him a salt and Paraguard dip and now he’s acting stressed sitting on one side of the tank by the bubbler. His poop is long, white and stringy. What can I do? I have metronidazole and Kanaplex handy at home. I don’t want to lose him, he’s big and my favorite fish!
i keep seeing tanks without substrate. is that how a proper hospital tank should look? also, what is those mineral pebbles in the filter? medication or trace elements?
I've seen some people recommend a higher dosage of 5% flubendazole at 20 mg / liter instead of 2 mg / liter. Is that overdosing? What is the recommended dosage for capillaria?
I think this is what my fish has I'm treating atm or it might have fluke so I'm treating for both
Awesomeness
How would you treat for camallanus red worm?
please tag a link for the medicine you had used !! My betta has not eaten for a week out of the blue . could you take a fece sample from him? Ive fed him everything he likes and seems like hes interested but has a "sore throat" reaction.
Hi Doc! My Midas Cichlid has a rectal rolaspe. How do I treat it?
will this treat heximita or wasting disease ? I have a fish with hole in the head that eats bust its belly its sunken in big time.
Is the fish medication "Clear" the same as Furan2?
I'm positive this is what my betta has. My problems is that he is in a tank with a breeder box with a female betta and 8 kuhli loaches. The female seems fine, though I often wonder if my khulis are eating enough, and they were there before him. Could he have gotten it from the kuhlis? Is it contagious? Should I treat the entire tank, or just him? Will treatment negatively affect khulis, which gave very delicate scales?
Can i use ampicilin to betta fish at the same case? Please answer thank you
hello Dr.,
My flowerhorn is suffering from hexamita and cant eat any food at that time all i have got is metronidazole, i am injecting this in his stomach through his mouth since 5 days & alsoTreated him by epsom salt and now he start eating pallet food by last two days,kindly suggest it is recover from heximita or not ?? plz rply...
Hi,sir, I want to know,why my famfa fish always had bloated stomach
Had this list lots fish
I have a large Angel fish with exactly those same symptoms and have added the treatment yesterday.
Just one thing though, how long do I leave it before I do a partial water change as I don't want to dilute the medicine that's been added?
Thanks in advance!
Where did you buy it?
@@HCBCHEMISTRY Ebay, it's usually a bit cheaper than buying the same brand from a shop
@@MakoyUnggoy thank you, what's it called exactly?
@@HCBCHEMISTRY The one I bought was NT Labs Anti-Fluke & Wormer, but if you can buy it will depend in what country you are in I suppose compared to me
Great video where do I get this medication?
Does it mean I have to destroy the bacteria I have established in the tank? I think most of my fish have caught it by this stage but I have a planted aquarium....I've been feeding them food with garlic included...I've lost 3 fish in a month.....So I'm really baffled since I haven't introduce any new fish to the tank...
Can you feed your fish during Levamisole treatment?
Sir, Likes to know about Internal Biological Filter from this vedio. How we can make the same as it beautiful
Hoping you can help me with the correct dosing, grams per 10 gallons?
Hey im like 3 years late and alot of my goldfish's poop are clear with a little bit of brown,im worried for them
Are they ok?
My green Terror Cichlid has the same is this a serious issue I just spotted it tonight and no way I can treat now..
HI DR ,
I bought two fish on 02/12/2017 and in a week I lost my 07 fish and they are dying.I don't know what to do ....... Evry week I use to change 50% of water but still, my fish is dying I found some of my goldfish lost their color and fin tailrot and I purchased API Melafix during I pour 01tbsp into the tank then still my fish is dying.I am feeling very bad for them please help in this
Hay Doc please make more about Datz Tiger
What microscope would you recommend for the average aquarium owner?
Hello the fish doctor.. Just a quick question.. I am using RO water.. Water parameters is good. Ph level is good.. Nitrate/nitrate level is maintained.. Also tried deworming my flowerhorn but still his hump is decreasing day by day.. Can you please provide me any suggestions... It would be really helpful for my fh...
For the inner workings of the kok, see ruclips.net/video/i8CWLqjsUXw/видео.html
Thanks so much for the video, glad I watched to the end as I think my treatment is working as excess white faeces is being produced so seems to be working itself out water change and vacuum is this Friday after the 3 day course... my question is when do you think a SECOND treatment is needed DOC?. Used waterlife octozin UK based
I have a micro scope and I found these eggs in my Discus poop. My Discus Poop was white just like that. I have used levamisole 3 times now doing LARGE water changes and cleaning the bottom as best I could after each time and I do w/c 2 times a week. My tank has a sand bottom and some plants. so keeping it spotless is not going to happen. My understanding is the levamisole only paralyzes the adult worms and does nothing to the eggs? It has been 2 weeks since the last levamisole treatment for my fish and I found more white poop and looked under the microscope and found the same eggs. Can this worm really be cured? Will my fish have to just live with it? Do you know the life cycle how long eggs take to hatch and so on? Thanks wish I had a fish Dr near me.
Can you use API general parasite cure my fish has this and I don’t want it to die:(
Dr.My flowrthorn is too sick as it not eating anything..its suffring from the same disease aswell as anus out.Its colour is fading but its moving well.and its one side gill is not moving.Please help me out what to do as soon as possible..please
My Ottocinclus catfish has stopped eating from three days what should I do please help
Use metroxyl 400 tablet
In case you didn’t get answers by now- you can prepare fresh garlic and the chemical present in it will attract your fish no matter what and they will eat it. Good for if they stop eating.
hi! the levamisole powder im using is 100%, it says on the package to treat the tank, do a water change then wait 3 weeks to do another treatment. that sounds too long? or is it just because its 100% levamisole? thankyou🙂p.s i already see an improvement in my fish after 1 treatment but were not quite there yet so im unsure of what to do.
I can't be sure of the make up of other brands. Best to follow manufacturer's instructions.
HELLO MY FRIEND praziquantel can work for this ?????
I think my black ghost knife fish has this, can I show the picture to you in a way to double check? I want to make sure to know what to do about it
My Betta fish (Tabbytha) has a parasite hanging out from her belly.ive been giving her medicine and I feed her once every other day but I don't see too much of a difference.what should I do?should I remove the parasite or take her to Petco??? BTW she does eat her food.i give her 2 small flakes only! She is very playful still and she's happy.
Hi Dr Loh. since it is safe, should levamisole be used as a preventive treatment on community tanks, like once or twice a year, like it is used for chicken or cattle? I am a fellow veterinarian but I don't have expertise in aquarium. My community tank is a hobby. Fishes are well except one female guppy suddenly died yesterday. No signs, she was pregnant, big and ate well. Only little thing: i noticed mixed normal brownish and abnormal white string long feces the day before her death. The tank is 150liters, with one female endler, 10 cardinals, a pair of chunas, 2 corys, 2 kuhlis, 2 otos, 1mo baby guppies from the females who were bought pregnant a month and a half ago, and a baby discus who will be transferred to a bigger tank in a bit. The aquarium is cycling for 3 months. planted tank, T=27degC, GH=5, pH=6.9, no nitrite, no ammonia, no nitrate. No other fish has weird feces. So I am lost. Should I treat blind (something I don't like to do professionnally), should I collect feces from different fishes of the aquarium to look under microscope first?
Zaza Blue yes, diagnostics always helps you decide on the cure.