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Treating Camellanus with Levamisole Hydrochloride | 30 comments (22 topical, 8 editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Treating worms with Levamisole Hydrochloride (none / 1) (#1)
by angelhologram on Sat Apr 29, 2006 at 05:09:03 PM PST

Umm Scott, Step 4 was dose your fish and Step 5 was wait a week or two. This is a little misleading. You may want to add Step 4.1 wait 24 hours Step 4.2 do a 100% water change then go on to Step 5. Otherwise people may think they are supposed to leave the stuff in there for 2 weeks.
Otherwise, great job and thanks for the input (and the site).
*BEFORE you buy fish make sure you understand what "Cycling" a tank means <- quoted from miskaral* ~Trying to make a difference one fish at a time~


Re: Treating worms with Levamisole Hydrochloride (none / 0) (#2)
by Scott Lockwood on Sat Apr 29, 2006 at 05:26:54 PM PST

You mean you're not? :-) Seriously, how long DO you leave it in? That was something else I couldn't really nail down.

"I love to visit PetSmart's Tropical Fish Dept. to see what new diseases are around today." -- inkmaker
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Re: Treating worms with Levamisole Hydrochloride (none / 0) (#4)
by wraith on Sat Apr 29, 2006 at 09:17:03 PM PST

when I treated for this #@&*X disease I got my levimisole from inkmaker. I first did as big of a water change as I could. I then added levimisole. I wasn't sure what to do next so I emailed him for a few more instructions. He replied with "It depends on the stress of the fish. If they are handling the dead worms OK then wait 3 days and change the water. Retreat in 3 weeks."
The water change I did was about 50% as I didn't have enough pail space to season more. After the first treatment I did a water change every 3-4 days After the second treatment I did the same thing for another 3 weeks to get the rest of the levimisole out of the water.
As for the measurements, because I bought it from Inkmaker, it was already pre-measured for me, lucky me! Good thing because I lack both measuring utensils in my kitchen and math skills!

Good luck!


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Re: Treating worms with Levamisole Hydrochloride (none / 0) (#8)
by angelhologram on Sun Apr 30, 2006 at 06:13:08 AM PST

I got mine from inkmaker also, here's a link to his article http://www.inkmkr.com/Fish/CamallanusTreatment/CamallanusTreatment.pdf . I had planned to leave it in there for 24 hours the first treatment but wound up leaving it for 36. The second treatment was 2 weeks later and I only left it in for 20 hours as it was VERY stressful on my fish. You can read my article on it here. http://www.guppylog.com/story/2006/4/13/154914/763
Good luck and hope everything "comes out" okay.
*BEFORE you buy fish make sure you understand what "Cycling" a tank means <- quoted from miskaral* ~Trying to make a difference one fish at a time~
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"Back when," Charles sent me some (none / 0) (#9)
by unclescott on Sun Apr 30, 2006 at 02:45:39 PM PST

Flubendazole, when that was available. That was effective at 1/2 gram (500 milligrams) of Flubendazole per five gallons of water. He felt that a 1/4 teaspoon would effectively measure that 1/2 gram. So much for fancy, shmancy measuring equipment.

Could you get away with a slightly heaped 1/4 teaspoon with 625 milligrams or .625 of a gram of the Levamisole?

He also notes elsewhere that because anthelmintics don't dissolve real well, overdosing isn't very easy to do. So a little imprecision may be ok. (Maggie's fudge factor on commercial applications comes to mind too).

That casual comment about not being able to over dose, is a little inconsistent with the advice to do a 100% water change with seasoned water, so a residual doesn't build up. But I think absolute measurement isn't needed here, so long as we aren't letting the stuff accumulate through only partial water changes.

I have cautioned against 100% water changes usually, but IF this is an established tank and IF the gravel, filter media (just the biological media) and plants (?) have been there a few months and are not allowed to dry out, there shouldn't be a huge ammonia surge. Since the fish are being medicated, feeding is going to be more careful and modest anyway.

By the way, Charles also suggested "for a measure of economy", only putting half the water in a 10-gallon tank, so one didn't have to use as much of the treatment. (My response, of course, was Doh!) If there is an airstone or hard airline run in there to mix things up, it should be ok, assuming the room temperature is appropriate.

If available changing water is limited, that is another reason to scale down tank contents.

All the best!
unc

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Re: "Back when," (none / 0) (#10)
by angelhologram on Sun Apr 30, 2006 at 02:52:25 PM PST

As to exact measurements I certainly didn't use any. I emptied the packet that he sent into an 8oz water bottle and half of that mixture was used to treat my 55gal (plus about 10gal in the wet/dry filter). The other half was used for the second treatment.
*BEFORE you buy fish make sure you understand what "Cycling" a tank means <- quoted from miskaral* ~Trying to make a difference one fish at a time~
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