Prazipro in the reef - once and for all

[christyf5]

I ran prazipro in my full reef a few years ago with no problems. Used the dosage on the bottle. I think the treatment ran for 5 days or so before I put carbon in. I don't recall any casualties but I don't have a sandbed so I wasn't worried about worm or featherduster death affecting the tank at all.

[Delphinus]

I lost an abalone a few days after treating my old tank with Prazipro. Everything else pulled through though and the fish who had gill flukes is still with me. IMO, it may be a measured risk as far as "reef safe" goes but to me it's more important to get rid of flukes - the reef will recover.

[tytown]

Just a quick update. I've finished 2, 5-day prazi doses on my display and it didn't have any negative effects on the health of my system. It did however obliterate my fluke infestation!
Fish, inverts,stony and softies all fared well. The shape of my BTA's has changed a bit but I imagine they'll bounce back.
Worked for me but it's no damn fun pouring chemicals in the display and having to turn the skimmer off for 2 weeks.
Thanks everyone for sharing their experience!

[hfp75]

I'm just finishing setting up my 4' display and have had fish & coral all over while I moved. It's 2/3 full and I thought now would be the best time for prazi it went in yesterday. My Xenia is not happy and the nems aren't either. I'll post an update in a few days...

[asylumdown]

if this turns out to kill xenia, I'm sure there are a few people who'd pay extra for it...

[tytown]

So 2 weeks following my treatment i've noticed a decline in coralline and macro (dragons breath) algae health. It seems to be going pale and almost brownish.
This could be due to a recent drop in dKh (sitting at slightly above 5) but just a heads up. Im dosing to correct for the alk drop, but will keep updates coming. Im not 100% sure the issue was from the prazi but I should be able to confirm based on how things look once i get my alk back up.
Nems, inverts and fish still doing fine.

[tytown]

It could be one more thing, I used a lot of carbon following a large water change on my system. Perhaps a slight overdose...