copperband twitching its head

[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.