HumbleFish
06/25/2014, 08:03 AM
To preface, let me just say I've done this before and witnessed no negative interaction. Also, ammonia alert badge and Salifert test kit showed 0 ammonia at the time this happened.
I was QT'ing a Copperband Butterfly, a Chevron Tang and a chromis in a divided 29 gal QT. Taking on the tang was somewhat unexpected (long story), but a few days ago I saw stringy white poo coming out of him and suspected flukes. The fish were already being treated with CP, so I opted to dose Prazi in conjunction as I have done this before and noticed no ill effects.
For the first 24 hrs, everything was fine. But yesterday afternoon I noticed the water had turned cloudy. A hour or two later the CBB was on his death bed, and the other two were laying on their side breathing rapidly. A little disclaimer: The CBB dying is not that surprising, as I haven't seen it eat in weeks. After testing for ammonia (and showing 0), I decided to move all the fish to my frag tank. I didn't have enough freshly mixed s/w on hand to make much of an impact by doing a WC, and I didn't feel carbon would remove the meds fast enough to save their lives.
The CBB died, but the tang & damsel recovered within an hour or two. In fact, they both ate before the lights went out in the frag tank last night. So, just a word of caution for anyone reading this thinking of mixing Prazi with CP.
I was QT'ing a Copperband Butterfly, a Chevron Tang and a chromis in a divided 29 gal QT. Taking on the tang was somewhat unexpected (long story), but a few days ago I saw stringy white poo coming out of him and suspected flukes. The fish were already being treated with CP, so I opted to dose Prazi in conjunction as I have done this before and noticed no ill effects.
For the first 24 hrs, everything was fine. But yesterday afternoon I noticed the water had turned cloudy. A hour or two later the CBB was on his death bed, and the other two were laying on their side breathing rapidly. A little disclaimer: The CBB dying is not that surprising, as I haven't seen it eat in weeks. After testing for ammonia (and showing 0), I decided to move all the fish to my frag tank. I didn't have enough freshly mixed s/w on hand to make much of an impact by doing a WC, and I didn't feel carbon would remove the meds fast enough to save their lives.
The CBB died, but the tang & damsel recovered within an hour or two. In fact, they both ate before the lights went out in the frag tank last night. So, just a word of caution for anyone reading this thinking of mixing Prazi with CP.