Re: [RML] Gutworm

Bruce Hansen (bhansen at ozemail.com.au)
Sat, 5 Apr 1997 11:11:08 +1000

That treatment went out with the Ark Peter - Ivermectin or one of it's
inevitable successors is the go because it treaTS THE TANK - the parasite
is rapidly spread because there is no intermediate stage being a ?nematode
type of worm so the baby worms just wriggle out and find another fish.

Bruce Hansen, ANGFA
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Remember, "When in doubt, leave it out!"

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> From: peter.unmack at ASU.Edu
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] Gutworm
> Date: Saturday, 5 April 1997 1:21
>
> On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Frex wrote:
>
> > Major symptom is a bundle of red "feelers" protruding half an inch from
the
> > fish's vent.
>
> That sounds like Camalanus. You treat them the same way that you treat
> worms in people, orally (a pill down the throat, no Flex, I'm sorry, it
> is not what you were thinking.....). I forget the drug used, but you
soak
> their food in it and feed it until it's all gone away if I remember
> correctly. I had it, and got rid of it using that technique. I think I
> was just feeding flake food soaked in it and fed (I think I froze it
> actually). Not sure about the plants and gravel but who cares about
> them anyway! :-) I wouldn't have that useless crap in my tanks. :-)
>
> Tootles
>
> Peter Unmack