Prazipro reef safe?

[bullit67]

One problem I see with this is flukes well fresh water flukes any way are to small to be seen with the naked eye you need a micro scope to see them. I know this from many years of koi keeping I have taken a koi heath course with Dr. Eric Johnson DVM. he is a world renowned koi vet. And done many scrapings on my koi looking for flukes. If they are from the same family you wont be able to see them.

[Alberta-newb]

I try to avoid medicating an entire DT if at all possible, the one exception I made was treating for flatworms which I believe resulted in the death of one of my favorite fish. So personally I only use Prazi-Pro in a QT tank. That being said however, I was also concerned at one time about parasites and not having QT space for all my fish I opted for an anti-parasitic that is food based. This medicates the fish directly as opposed to treating the entire water column. What I used is a product called Gel-tek (found at Petland). It's an orange thick liquid that contains praziquentel, as well as two other anti-parasitic meds. It's supposed to be tasty to fish directly but found my fish ignored it so instead I soaked mysid shrimp with it. I held off feeding for a while so everyone was hungry then target fed each fish that I was worried about. No problems, no loss of any inverts either. Not ideal, but worked when QTing everything isn't a viable option.

[Snaz]

Originally Posted by my2rotties

It is indeed flukes... I added water to the Ziplock bags and see thousands of them floating in the water around the fish.

Are you sure you did not see scales floating around? Same shape.