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Has anyone used this dewormer?
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:56 am
by palaeodave
http://wormerplus.co.uk/
I've been thinking about using a dewormer on my tanks just as a precaution and found this product. Does anyone have any experience with it or know much about the active ingredient?
I haven't been able to get hold of levamisole so looking for alternatives.
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:45 am
by Diana
From the site you linked, scroll way down, near the bottom.
'Flubendazole is still the main active ingredient in the new version'
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:37 am
by palaeodave
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I could see what the active ingredient is, I just don't know anything about fish medications.
Would this be a safe and effective enough medication to go for?
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:10 pm
by Diana
http://www.inkmkr.com/Fish/FlubendazoleTreatment.pdf
here is some info about Flubendazole. It is talking about a particular formulation when it suggests dosages, so I would ignore that, and go by the dosages on the product that is available to you.
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:11 pm
by plaalye
I've been using it as a preventative treatment for all new fish in quarantine, following Charles' directions in the link Diana posted. So far so good. The known problems I've successfully treated are a bad case of camallanus in some m. praecox rainbows, and it solved a case of wasting/skinny(?) in my hillstream tank that levamisole didn't
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:16 pm
by millsn
I have also used this treatment and now swear by it.
I tried levamisole four times before deciding that it didn't do the trick for "my type of worms". I lost four clowns to skinny whilst I was using levamisole.
As soon as I used wormer plus the remaining clown was wormed. It took a few months to feed him back up.