How to Treat Fish with Internal Parasites | Skinny Disease, Bloating, White Stringy Poop 

Alot of these say to remove the filter do u do that or just put it in with water changes ?

@Michael Gusmini alright thanks for the help

How can I treat my community tank for horsehair worms? Noticed them in some ghost shrimp that came in a few weeks ago.

QUAD FLAKE and PraziPro/General Cure... GGs Worms... Still do the process 3 times... but the quad flakes are amazing! Also the Trio Flakes are amazing.

As I am a complete newbie to fish keeping hobby so was just wondering how to treat for intestinal parasites etc. for small tropical freshwater fish which are around only 2cm- 4cm being the largest size in my 18.5-20 US Gallon fish tank or 70 litre which I have. As I had my firsh tank/ aquarium set up for over 1 year or around 1.5 years doing fishless cycling method and having growing out some live plants using Fritz Zyme 7 live nitrifying bacteria and for natural ammonia using Fritz zyme fishless fuel. According to my local pet store/ fish store they said my fish tank water was very well cycled and very good consistent water parameters except that my water PH being slightly high at 7.6 and also quite high water hardness but other than that completely good. I have quite a lot of live beginner aquarium plants covering nearly my whole aquarium and the fish I have are 5 small red cherry barbs, 2 bright and wonderful Yellow Honey Gourami and 2 beautiful black/ greyish colour Dwarf Suckermouth Catfish/ Otto which are very much like plecos (Latin name: Otocinclus. sp.) As they only tend to stick to the sides of my glass fish tank or on top of ornaments or my live plants. As for regarding health generally majority of the fish look very nice, vibrant colour and swimming around well however one of the red Cherry barb is looking quite sluggish or at least down at the bottom of the fish tank by himself and not eating much mostly unlike the other community fish or possibly something red sticking out of it's underside belly lile bloat possibly??? I have also one of catfish I noticed strangely just started yesterday white stringy poop coming out as it was swimming around which if correct according to my research/ knowledge is obvious sign of intestinal parasites etc. Other than that all my other fish such as my 2 Yellow Honey Gourami are completely fine and seem to be very healthy and doing very well, looking fine and eating well etc. Any useful information/ tips and advice would be very helpful and greatly appreciated. As obviously unlike in this wonderful RU-vid video I obviously can't treat fish individually by taking them out of the fish tank and lying them flat on a towel etc. as my fish are way too small. Also unfortunately as I don't have enough money I only have 1 fish tank so no other separate fish tank to use as a hospital tank to treat the fish that maybe looking sick in my opinion individually. As recommended by Kaveman Aquatics RU-vid channel I have been using since I bought my fish (not bought all at once obviously) using Seachem stability and Seachem Prime and Seachem Flouish Advance for my live plants. Thank you, Kind regards, Tom from UK.

I’m not too keen on KG. Guess not my style.

@@Notevenone same. They constantly push their sponsored products whether or not they are actually good products. It’s pretty clear they are in it just for the money

Let's not forget MD tanks (plant info)

You should eat a cookie

KG always takes so long too explain

I have 20 guppy there are skinny and not eating 1 or2 die every week. Will this medications help? Pls help

@@jacksonvang2946 I know it’s 3 months later but yes. Did you end up treating yours?

Sassy probably read your post and told him about it. She's real good at that.

What happened? I have a 60 gallon Community fish that's got "I Think" are internal parasites?? My Cory's have shrunken to little tiny tiny ones, Molly literally just has a top fin due to wheen I got him 4 months ago etc two Rainbows Dwarf Gourami Kribensis Cichlid in the tank? I did the Focus Metroplex and Kanaplex concoction in pellats and NOTHING changed.... PLEASE ANYONE help

Did it work? I’m having the same issue. Had a few fish start dying of bloat but water is fine. I do see a lot of scratching and I’ve seen some white poop. Hoping this works! 🤞🏼

@@royr2854 If tapeworms , will work...

His 2 big favorites... Ick-X...and (external / internal) Para-Cleanse... or API General Cure... Find the ingredients online for those products. Europe has fish meds.

I want to treat my large common pleco! I’ve had him for over 10 years, he’s 14 inches long and I love him 😢I hope it works

I believe my fish (glo tetra) is suffering from swim bladder. He is not thriving, very skinny compared to other like fish. He is swimming very erratic and he floats to the bottom. He will actual lay on the bottom of the tank. I hate seeing him like this. I’ve treated with kanaplex and aquarium salt (not at the same time) It seem to work at first but then he starts swimming erratic again. I feel really bad because I don’t know if he is suffering. I don’t know what else to do? Please help us 😢

He really does. He speaks to the everyday person, not all scientific. But when he does he makes it easy to understand

Common with especially wild caught puffers... our big P*tco store sells sick puffers with no meds. hope it changes soon. They apparently don't even carry internal parasite meds, when I asked. (Hawaii) They carry a gazillion water conditioners. (yeah, great). I may post a vid... What to buy Before you get fish... -thank God for the Co-op... but, was still too late for 2 out of 3 fish. They ate... and got skinny and stressed... eventually too weak to eat. :( The 3rd GS Puffer got thru Ich-X meds and now Para-cleanse, doing great!

(Hope not the food... Even Plants can carry critters.

@@bubblerings I haven't added any plants or anything new in over a year! Crazy 😩

@@lookwithinandsee sadly, sounds like the food is 'Dirty'... infested with worms... -Only way to tell without a microscope is: Treat your tank... Keep track of what foods / brands are fed... See when parasites show up. -By the way... can try to go back and see what are the newest frozen foods (and brand) that you bought. Chances are, that a recent batch was contaminated. Now, if your problem is something else, like a problem in the tank... Maybe conditions have changed and brought on illnesses like Ich or Fungus (white loach). A dead fish hiding under aquascape or in the filter can cause trouble. Anyone experienced would tell you to test your water... Ammonia, Nitrites (both quite toxic)... Nitrates can be toxic, but not as likely, if doing water changes. *could be anything to stress fish... did anyone spray for bugs by the tank or air pump? Chemicals make fish sensitive to everything. Hope you can do your detective work and find answers... I got my first notebook after all these years... Keeping notes Helps to diagnose problems.

I now this is 1 year old, but did your Kuhli loaches withstand the medication?

​@@fitrockxthey did! However, the white one is still solid white, and the others are normal colored. So weird?!

I haven’t found a notice or difference between the two versions of dosing. However I recommend following the package directions as it would be more potent. If I was treating murphy, id follow the directions, when treating quarantine fish we something different entirely based on our water change system.

This is the exact same thing as General Cure, same active ingredients

Same ingredients. Just a different brand.

Well if Y'ALL don't mind let me jump in here since Cory's probably to bust....What happened? I have a 60 gallon Community fish that's got "I Think" are internal parasites?? My Cory's have shrunken to little tiny tiny ones, Molly literally just has a top fin due to wheen I got him 4 months ago etc two Rainbows Dwarf Gourami Kribensis Cichlid in the tank? I did the Focus Metroplex and Kanaplex concoction in pellats and NOTHING changed.... PLEASE ANYONE help

No... day one... and if doing Fritz instructions also Day 3... (water changes, as per instructions.) REMOVE CARBON from filter packs before treating... Apparently, Cory has good results with one treatment Left In for a week, then water change and two week rest. Treat again, same way...

I just spent $23 for the 10 pack from lfs 🤦‍♀️

No melafix work for external only

If it ain't broke don't fix it

I’m having my American friends ship them to me.

It’s one of the ingredients in paracleanse so it should do some but be as broad spectrum as paracleanse.

Trying to find this out myself. You ever find out?

what happened back then?

Read the label..