sterazin medication with fish food

[ganesan]

I have the medication sterazin from waterlife products which good for killing gill flukes and other intestinal worms.A couple of my discus are thin and I suspect some intestinal worm infection.Can I mix tetra bits soaked in sterazin medication and will it help?
These fish have been eating well but are a little skinny for quite some time and I use RO water and keep nitrates below 5 always with daily 10% WC.No other unusual symptoms other than this thinness.I use well water.Temp average 29c and pH steady at 6.5.

[Chinaman]

I don't think they are suitable to mix with fish food. You can drop them an email to confirm it.

[ganesan]

Thanks sir I will e mail them today

[Mikemeets]

Sorry i know this is a very old post but could u mix sterazin with fish food?

[brewmaster15]

I would not, from what I remember it contains a cocktail of chemicals like malachite green, formalin and acryflavin? maybe also a dewormer like piperazine.

If you know the ingredients please post them and I will confirm but I'm pretty sure its meant for external treatment in the water.



hth,
al

[brewmaster15]

Michael,
Just saw your post in another thread...


Malachite green 0.08% w/w
Piperazine citrate 0.34% w/w
Acriflavine hydrochloride 0.055% w/w
Formaldehyde 0.2% w/w

Definetly not to be added to food in my book.

-al

[Mikemeets]

Malachite green 0.08% w/w
Piperazine citrate 0.34% w/w
Acriflavine hydrochloride 0.055% w/w
Formaldehyde 0.2% w/w

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[Mikemeets]

Cool... but not sure whats going on in my tank... could be HEX...

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[Mikemeets]

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[Mikemeets]

2nd pic its the one in the back

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[Mikemeets]

Im moving the 3 out of the 5 to qt tomorrow when i get the 1foot tank

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[Mikemeets]

Seriously doing huge waterchanges per day and ammonia and nitrites are at 0, nitrates goes up and down but most the time at 5ppm and every now and then kreeps to 10ppm but thats only 10% of the time, feeding bloodworms one per day, 3times a day i use tetra prima and 2times i use flakes... not sure whats bugging them... been in the tank 2weeks but was semi cycled with nitrite spike of 0.8mg/l, but did huge water changes and i am still doing these water changes but now its cycled fully as u can see so not sure if they been moved to much or just bad stress from when i didnt know what i was doing in the beggining...

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[Mikemeets]

Have them over a month now going for 2months.

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[Mikemeets]

But they were in a nother tank of mine a 2foot tank and was way to small thats y i moved them

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[Ripplingfire]

It is nerve racking when cant help them. The helpless feeling is the worst. Hang in there, where there is a will there is a way.

[Mikemeets]

Yup exactly haha very stressful for me lol but this is my 1st batch so they my learning bunch... next bunch i would know exactly how to look after them and treat them BUT i still want these guys for future to say "hey they are stunted but we been through allot" haha

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[Mikemeets]

Treating the whole tank with Sterazin one go, gonna do what it says by ussing it on day 1 3 6 8 and 10 and continue on day 12 and 14 just to nuke any bad bacteria and parasites still left over

[Ripplingfire]

:bandana:Give ' em hell.

[Mikemeets]

Lol sterazin not working for me, my fish still flick against stuff every now and again... im only on day 5 so lets see.

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[Quintin]

Just remember the day 1 day 3 and so on doesnt apply here as you doing daily water changes.Always add sterazin after water change to the value of water that has been removed and replaced.So you would be adding sterazin every day.I had the same issues once and the fish seem to hate the sterazin.But it will come rite.PS how are your fish doing lately