Prazipro & fish appetite

[asylumdown]

My normal prophylactic QT procedure is a tank transfer protocol, dosing prazipro for the last two transfers. I'm presently in the middle of the protocol for a new addition and just dosed Prazi yesterday.

Any other fish and I wouldn't be concerned, but this fish is of a particularly fickle variety and is already pretty underweight. It's refused all food since I dosed, but was eating an increasing number of pellets for the past week. I'm not going to dose it for the final transfer, but do you all think I should do a 100% water change now just to get it out? It would mean it was only exposed to Prazi for 24 hours.

[Wheelman76]

If the fish has been eating for the past week then I wouldn't be too concerned if it's only been one day that he stopped eating. I don't think you will get much benefit with 24 hours of prazi treatment. I treat for 5 days and then do a water change add some carbon and then start another 5 day treatment the next day. I've never done the tank transfer method , how long is your usual treatment of prazi? Or how long is each transfer ?

[George]

I would leave the fish in PP water for the length of current transfer which is 72 hours. The fish won't die in 3 days if it was eating before the PP.
Sounds like you are doing PP back to back. You might want to wait a few days (anywhere from 3-5 days) between 2 treatments. The idea is PP can't kill fluke egg. The few days between treatments are there for the egg to hatch.

[asylumdown]

I've typically been doing a single dose at the start of one of the transfer periods (3 days), then another dose at the start of the second, for a total of 6 days under treatment. The bottle says 5 days is usually sufficient, so it seems like a convenient thing to incorporate.

There's no evidence of flukes on this fish, which is why it seemed like a big risk for little benefit if it was going to kill his appetite completely. It's a moorish idol, which is already supposedly the hardest fish in the sea to keep, so I'm being hyper vigilant.

[hackerberry]

Try offering Doc Eco's egg. Tried it for the first time and all my picky eaters are out and eating like crazy whenever I offer it. Hope the fish gets better.

[asylumdown]

Where do you get it? I've never seen it at any of the stores in calgary

[The Codfather]

Talk to Denny, think they carry it at concept.

[Myka]

I would finish the treatment too. If you don't, then you just need to repeat it, and chances are it will cause anorexia again as Prazi is known to do this.

[asylumdown]

On a slightly related note, does anyone know how much live rock if need to "instantly" cycle a QT tank with one 2.5" fish? My canister filter got hijacked to keep goldfish from my pond that I didn't really mean to keep all winter going. When the TT is done I want to keep him isolated and fatten him up, but I'll have to poach rock from my sump for a biofilter

[Wheelman76]

+1 on the docs Eco eggs , great product and im pretty sure the stock it at Concept. Also even if you don't see any flukes on the fish , prazi will treat for any internal parasites as well which is a good reason to try and treat for as long as you can.