But give it a try, I could be wrong......
Roy Hunter
Co-Chairman
ANGFA of North America
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> From: Gary Lange <gwlange at stlnet.com>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] Gutworm
> Date: Friday, April 04, 1997 6:58 PM
>
> I remember Ginny Eckstein saying to use the cattle wormer stuff, I
> guess it was levamisole. I don't know if the ivermectin is also a
> cattle dewormer, so it could have been that too. What she did say
> though was that most of the "dewormers" on the market kill some of
> the worms and others are just badly stunned and slide out into "the
> substrate". She suggested treating in a bare bottom tank and
> cleaning each day to ensure that you get rid of them. I think the
> dead ones etc., that fell out may have had eggs too so if you could
> keep the fish from reinjesting them you could break the cycle. She
> was pretty insistent upon this and suggested that anything short of
> this could lead to another round months later. (she raises mainly
> catfish so they are a lot closer to the substrate than bows but you
> see bows picking at sh*t on the bottom all the time). Of course with
> the fish removed a tank treatment should wipe out anything left in
> the tank so that you could reintroduce treated fish later. I guess
> the question Dianne is: How long ago did you have this infection and
> then following with ivermectin? Please post to the list your
> treatment and dosage as this also might be a handy thing to have
> around, just in case. Our editor, Kevin Hosmer got these little
> creatures in his system a few years back and it essentially wiped out
> all of his rainbows. He thought he had them licked and then they
> came back with a vengeance.
>
> Gary Lange
> gwlange at STLNET.com
> Rainbowfish Study Group of North America
> http://home.earthlink.net/~sbuckel/index.html
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> From: VERMILLION, DIANNE <DVER at son.rochester.edu>
> To: list rainbowfish <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
> Subject: RE: [RML] Gutworm
> Date: Friday, April 04, 1997 9:49 AM
>
> HI, I had great success with ivermectin eliminating callamanus from
> my
> fish. I did one round of treatment and the worms have not been
> back-and
> I didn't do any boiling of gravel or potassium permanganate either.
> sooo. I f you need the dose and sequence I will be glad to pass it on
> to
> you, I got the information from Roy originally.
> Good Luck, don't lose any sleep over it -my fish were fine; didnt
> lose
> one.
> Dianne
>