Dwarfs
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My dad just ordered some for treatment (see colin bc's link for info) of my community fish. I lost 2 rams and a leopard danio already, and couldn't wait any longer. Colin bc's thread reccomends levasole, anyone here had luck? 
Has anyone tried levasole
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I have never tried it, although on a guppy forum I used to frequent, it was talked about quite a bit.
Here's some info:
"I thought this might be worthy of a separate post. As a result of what my local vet told me, I went and bought a bird worming syrup concentrate called Avitrol Plus. This stuff contains 10mg Levamisole Hydrochloride, 8.48mg/ml Levamisole base and 2mg/ml Praziquantel.
The good thing about this stuff is it's already dissolved in liquid, therefore none of the associated problems with trying to get the Levamisole to dissolve.
I simply got some freeze dried blood worms, squeezed a few eye droppers full of the syrup over them, added a little water, and let the works soak up the syrup.
After a few minutes I put the worms in the tank, and although not too fussed by them, the guppies ate them.
I went away for a couple of hours, and when I returned, I could not see any worms protruding from the affected fish. Looks like this treatment works and might be worth while considering."
From: Here
More info:
"In the Christmas issue of the UK Practical Fishkeeping (just picked up at Borders) they have a Health Centre article on, wouldn't you know it, Camallanus, by Dr. Peter Burgess.
A cross section of an infected fish (just the thing to look at during lunchtime) shows that the vast majority of the worm usually remains within the fish. Most of the time they are undetectable.
Dr. Burgess mentions a number of facts important to our discussions on the dreaded Camallanus. Several Camallanus species evidentially are prone to attack different fishes. That is not so significant, except that it means given the right nematode or roundworm, almost any fish can be at risk.
Oh yes, as elsewhere, Burgess writes that livebearers are particularly vulnerable, especially to a tropical beastie called C. cotti, which can even be mistaken for partly digested bloodworms or Tubifex worms!
Furthermore the larvae, when released into the water column (tank water) are quite animated. This fools fishes into gobbling them down and introducing them to their digestive systems!
Most sobering was the observation that the life cycle can be 3-4 months from larvae to full sized, reproducing adult. This suggests that a one to four week quarantine is useless if a preventative anthelmintic treatment or de-worming treatment is not given.
I don't think my fish have ever picked this ufrom other hobbyist's fish. (Maybe just lucky, maybe not very observant.) However I will look at fish which are a generation or two from stock secured through commercial channels verrrry carefully. The number of cases mentioned by Guppylog forum members indicates that it must be common somewhere along the commercial pipeline to our tanks.
While in nature, Camallanus is usually spread by an intermediate copepod which is eaten by the fish, Burgess feels that the tropical Camallanus is unlikely to be spread by Temperate Zone copepods (different species) which might be fed to fish. I might add, if the food cultures are raised where they would neither encounter fish nor water from a wild fish habitat, chances are even slimmer that infections are possible from that source.
When the worms are visible from the fish's vent is WHEN THEY ARE RELEASING LARVAE! One must be very careful not to spread the affliction with any water, aquarium equipment and even one's hands. Treatment must be done then, both to get the bloodsuckers within the fish and the larvae spreading around the tank!
Some fish, the article mentions, may pale in coloration, get slimmer and emaciated and fade away. The adult Camallanus might never be seen. I wonder how many fish deaths have attributed to something else. Another source of "mystery deaths"?
There are Temperate Zone Camallanus species which can be a threat to native fishes and colored carp (koi, goldfish). Drat, another whole chain of prevention to look to.
Camallanus are livebearers. Their young can infect other fish in an aquarium without any intermediaries. When purchasing fish, examine everything in that tank and maybe even in the petshop!
Aquarists in the UK must go to a vet for Flubendazol or Levamisole. (Sound familiar?)
The good news is that proper medication is going to kill the Camallanus which are free-swimming and those with a fish's system. After a week (or the two day heavy duty bath), the medication should be water changed out of the tank."
From:Here
I have never tried it, although on a guppy forum I used to frequent, it was talked about quite a bit.
Here's some info:
"I thought this might be worthy of a separate post. As a result of what my local vet told me, I went and bought a bird worming syrup concentrate called Avitrol Plus. This stuff contains 10mg Levamisole Hydrochloride, 8.48mg/ml Levamisole base and 2mg/ml Praziquantel.
The good thing about this stuff is it's already dissolved in liquid, therefore none of the associated problems with trying to get the Levamisole to dissolve.
I simply got some freeze dried blood worms, squeezed a few eye droppers full of the syrup over them, added a little water, and let the works soak up the syrup.
After a few minutes I put the worms in the tank, and although not too fussed by them, the guppies ate them.
I went away for a couple of hours, and when I returned, I could not see any worms protruding from the affected fish. Looks like this treatment works and might be worth while considering."
From: Here
More info:
"In the Christmas issue of the UK Practical Fishkeeping (just picked up at Borders) they have a Health Centre article on, wouldn't you know it, Camallanus, by Dr. Peter Burgess.
A cross section of an infected fish (just the thing to look at during lunchtime) shows that the vast majority of the worm usually remains within the fish. Most of the time they are undetectable.
Dr. Burgess mentions a number of facts important to our discussions on the dreaded Camallanus. Several Camallanus species evidentially are prone to attack different fishes. That is not so significant, except that it means given the right nematode or roundworm, almost any fish can be at risk.
Oh yes, as elsewhere, Burgess writes that livebearers are particularly vulnerable, especially to a tropical beastie called C. cotti, which can even be mistaken for partly digested bloodworms or Tubifex worms!
Furthermore the larvae, when released into the water column (tank water) are quite animated. This fools fishes into gobbling them down and introducing them to their digestive systems!
Most sobering was the observation that the life cycle can be 3-4 months from larvae to full sized, reproducing adult. This suggests that a one to four week quarantine is useless if a preventative anthelmintic treatment or de-worming treatment is not given.
I don't think my fish have ever picked this ufrom other hobbyist's fish. (Maybe just lucky, maybe not very observant.) However I will look at fish which are a generation or two from stock secured through commercial channels verrrry carefully. The number of cases mentioned by Guppylog forum members indicates that it must be common somewhere along the commercial pipeline to our tanks.
While in nature, Camallanus is usually spread by an intermediate copepod which is eaten by the fish, Burgess feels that the tropical Camallanus is unlikely to be spread by Temperate Zone copepods (different species) which might be fed to fish. I might add, if the food cultures are raised where they would neither encounter fish nor water from a wild fish habitat, chances are even slimmer that infections are possible from that source.
When the worms are visible from the fish's vent is WHEN THEY ARE RELEASING LARVAE! One must be very careful not to spread the affliction with any water, aquarium equipment and even one's hands. Treatment must be done then, both to get the bloodsuckers within the fish and the larvae spreading around the tank!
Some fish, the article mentions, may pale in coloration, get slimmer and emaciated and fade away. The adult Camallanus might never be seen. I wonder how many fish deaths have attributed to something else. Another source of "mystery deaths"?
There are Temperate Zone Camallanus species which can be a threat to native fishes and colored carp (koi, goldfish). Drat, another whole chain of prevention to look to.
Camallanus are livebearers. Their young can infect other fish in an aquarium without any intermediaries. When purchasing fish, examine everything in that tank and maybe even in the petshop!
Aquarists in the UK must go to a vet for Flubendazol or Levamisole. (Sound familiar?)
The good news is that proper medication is going to kill the Camallanus which are free-swimming and those with a fish's system. After a week (or the two day heavy duty bath), the medication should be water changed out of the tank."
From:Here
Dwarfs
Fish Connoisseur
Alright. I'm convinced. YOUR GOING DOWN WORMS!!! 
As soon as it get's here anyway 
Thanks cation
As soon as it get's here anyway Thanks cation
Dwarfs
Fish Connoisseur
Levamisole is great! It healed my honey gouramis almost overnight, and my badis is recovering! My tetras are looking better, and I've only lost 4 fish while waiting for the Levamisole. If anyone has problems with nematodes and can get some levamisole, do it 
I dosed about 2 teaspoons of powder for a 55g US tank
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