Will Prazipro Kill Cammalanus?

[NeonTetraFish64500]

One of my guppies have cammalanus. Will Prazipro cure it? And how quickly will the other fish in my tank be infested?
Thanks!

 

[bluesword23516]

If you can take it out as soon as possible. I would put the other fish in a bucket and siphon out the gravel really well to pick up any eggs. Other fish get it by picking of particles on the bottom.  It can infect them in a week or it could take months

 

[fm1978]

Yes Prazipro should work, however this is one of those situations where a full clean-out in going to have to happen. I
 
If you assume that all fish have been exposed to it, they may or may not have been, but in all likelihood, they will at some point soon, you should treat the whole tank as recommended on the instructions of your medication. After treatment, though, the whole tank and decor including substrate needs to be cleaned.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

If it can be obtained in Canada, get Levamisole HCL.
 

Treating your tank

1. Remove the Charcoal filtration and UV if you have it. Everything else should remain exactly the same. Same lights, same filters, same plastic figures and plants and same live plants and same temperature. pH doesn't matter. Everything that normally gets wet needs to be treated with the medication

2. Set the water temperature to about 75° F. Change the water in the tank to be treated, as close to all of it as you can. Don't try to scrub the tank clean. That destroys the Good bacteria and Protozoa and it will have to cycle those things back. That takes time and does harm to the fish etc. while it is working. Just change the water with your favorite Chlorine removing chemicals.

Make sure you have the solution you need for the treatment.

3. Pour in the solution of Levamisole and swirl it into the aquarium water to mix things completely.

4. Watch the fish for the next 3 days and 2 nights. Net out any dead ones. Let them dry on a news paper or paper towel and into the trash. NOT THE SINK or COMMODE! Don't put them back into our water system.

Any unused solution can be kept in a closed glass container, don't use a metal lid, in a refrigerator for 6 weeks as long as there is no evaporation.
Keep feeding the fish as usual. No reason to change anything. Besides, you want them to eliminate the dead Nematodes and need to keep things moving through the gut.

5. On the third day, change the water again to remove the dead Nematodes and the Medication.

That's it - But it has to be done again in 3 weeks. There is some question about the Levamisole killing eggs in ripe females. These eggs could be expelled after death and remain viable to hatch into more worms.

So, treat the tank in 3 weeks at the same rate you treated it first. Change the water in 3 days and you and your fish are free of the Nematode.

 
Read it all here http/www.inkmkr.com/Fish/CamallanusTreatment/TreatmentProcedure.html

 

[NeonTetraFish64500]

My substrate is sand and I have a bunch of moss and stuff. I don't think I can clean all that and it will cause a lot of stress on the fish.
Do I have to clean everything and won't the larva die because of the medicine?
Thanks

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Those directions and that med are bang on. The guy who sells the meds is well known in the USA and has a Ph.D.in Physical Chemistry.
 
What he is telling you is that one dose kills almost all of them for sure but it is possible that any females holding those eggs might release them still viable some time after they die. To deal with this one potential contingency he tells you to repeat the single dose following the same directions 3 weeks after the first, That is all you have to do.

 

[NeonTetraFish64500]

I already got prazipro and I'm really short on money so I can't afford to buy another bottle. Do I have to clean all the sand and ornaments to kill all the worms?

 

[TwoTankAmin]

You might want to read this thread http/www.theoscarspot.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=24070
 
among other things you will see this there:

 
Fenbendazole and Praziquantel CAN be used for treatment but may not kill the worms,only paralyze them.
If using either of those it's highly recommended to thoroughly gravel vacuum the tank every 24 hours during treatment.

 
I can't vouch for its accuracy of that.
 
However, all the reliable sources I check come to the same conclusion- use the Levamisole HCL. Using the Prazi and vacuuming every day is in no way certain to work.
 
I sympathize with your financial situation, but unfortunately is has nothing to do with what will or will not work. I believe you have the wrong medication and need to get the proper one if you can.
 
If you clean all the sand and ornaments, the odds are you will need to clean the glass and the filter(s) also. And when you do all this you will likely have also removed enough of the nitrifying bacteria will result in cycling issues in the tank.
 

 
5 gram packet - $10.00 + postage treats 100 gallons of Fresh Water tank water.

 
Now I realize this is for the USA, but Levamisole HCL is an animal medicine. It is used for cows pigs etc. So farm supply or tractor places may have it in Canada, it is not expensive. Call around and tell them you need a powdered pig dewormer that contains it.
 
I just found a thread on a Canada forum where Dr. Harrison sent the med to Canada read here http/www.aquariumforum.com/f5/camallanus-levamisole-hcl-canada-69426.html

 

[NeonTetraFish64500]

Will cherry shrimp eat cammalanus larvae and the eggs?

 

[TwoTankAmin]

If they did you  would easily be able to find out from a simple Google search: "Camalanus eggs + cherry shrimp" But cherries eat algae not meat so I doubt they will eat either eggs, larvae or worms. I could be wrong here.
 
But I think you are asking the wrong question. What you may have meant to ask is will levamisole kill cherry shrimp, that is the more pressing issue. This thread would answer that http/shrimpkeepersforum.com/forum/index.php/topic/3083-levamisole-and-shrimp/

 

 

[NeonTetraFish64500]

Now my fish are dying from dropsy and stuff like that. I'm probably going to euthanize the guppies since there like that because I don't want them to suffer. My two neons seem fine and the worms will probably die cause they won't have a fish to hang on to so I guess I'll wait a few weeks or months before adding anything else to the tank.