copperband twitching its head

I know prazi-pro has a solvent but praziquantal is suppose to contain some thing else, metronidazole does sound familiar but I am not sure what the extra substance is. After doing some surching if you get the praziquantel for humans then it has no other medications in it but aparently the praziquantel for dogs does. this drug treats for worms and flukes. Flukes will retract during the day when exposed to bright light the little buggers can retract under scales of a fish. If you don't see them on the scales yet then your fish should be savable. flukes can be species specific so if you are lucky that is the type you have so they will not spread to your other fish. The fish that brought them into my tank was an angle and it spread to my clowns and none of the other fish.

Originally Posted by daniella3d

No, prazipro does not contain anything else except a solvant. It is praziquantal in a liquid form, already dissolved and ready to use. I have read that some people say it containt metronidazole but I have no idea where they got this.

It's not that it will kill the flatworms in high dose, but rather that it kill certain type of flatworms and not others and the others that it does not kill are those pests in our aquarium. I would rather use flatworm exit instead if needed

The problem that remain with my copperband is that he's breathing quite fast in the morning and that changes during the day, then he start to breath slowly and normaly by mid day. Maybe there is just a lack of oxygen in my tank during the night because I shut off my skimmer to let the fish sleep? or maybe he's just spooked when the light turn on? I would imagine that if this was flukes it would be breathing fast all day, not just in the morning?

[daniella3d]

Praziquantal is praziquantal, it is a pure medicine just like metronidazole (for protozoares). Prazipro contain praziquantal and a solvant, nothing else that I am aware of. It would be nice if you could find the reference about dog praziquantal containing something else and what is that something else. Praziquantal itself does kill flukes and some type of flatworms, not just flukes.

I don't think he's got flukes anylonger. I am not even sure it was fluke because I have not seen any. Today his breathing is nice and slow but he has not eaten the mysis and white worms yet...he's too full of feather dusters. I will try to offer the fish some fresh mussle as well.

Originally Posted by bvlester

I know prazi-pro has a solvent but praziquantal is suppose to contain some thing else, metronidazole does sound familiar but I am not sure what the extra substance is. After doing some surching if you get the praziquantel for humans then it has no other medications in it but aparently the praziquantel for dogs does.

[daniella3d]

Ok I am a bit tired of this. The copperband was ok after 2 prazipro treatments but now it's started doing the same thing again. He's breathing fast from one gill and the other gill is closed and not moving.

UPDATE: Today he's ok, breathing normally. Not sure what to think of this but since he's eating well and he's fat, I guess I should not worry. I bought a cleaner shrimp today and will give him a new friend. Hopefull that will help if there are still some parasites. Anyone seen this behavior with one closed gill and breathing only from only one gill? One of the gill move and breath and the other is not moving at all and it is closed shut.