Re: Potassium permanganate in main tank with Anubias
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Originally Posted by
HarryDk
So did you not letting the pp go through your filter?
I switched the canister filter off for the 4 hours and when i switched it back on the brown colour of PP gradually got cleared.
Re: Potassium permanganate in main tank with Anubias
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Originally Posted by
Filip
They ussualy get listless and loose balance when they can't take it no more . Laying down or tail standing listlessly in some corner near the top .
Put them in fresh water not in weaker PP solution if they loose balance .
You might as well do it without the filter as Said says but I think that Al point on this is also valid Whatever you treat for , it will stay untreated in your filter if you just turn it off during the PP treat.
And redose if it neurltralizes quicker than 4 hours.
Pink , Red and orange means active , yellow or brown means its inactive .
I have never experienced fish loosing balance or roll over with 2mg per liter over 4 hours but they get listless as Filip said .i also have tried PP bath 10 mg per liter for 30 minutes with no problem.
Re: Potassium permanganate in main tank with Anubias
Ayyy, tried it for the first time, everything is fine except for 1 single rummy nose. Poor guy KIA almost instantly :(. He must has jump in the highly concentrated pp when i pour in :(
Re: Potassium permanganate in main tank with Anubias
I am happy that you experienced your first PP treatment ,it is not as bad as people think but it is still tough on the fish ,sorry to hear about your rummy nose ,i don't know what is KIA but it does not sounds good any way i usually add concentrated PP gradually with a power head so the fish don't get a shock ,are you still have problem with gill fluke ?
Re: Potassium permanganate in main tank with Anubias
Hi all,
Some plants will be harmed by pp at the doses we use...but anubias are very thick leaves, hardy plants. Some can even grow terrestrially . The leaves have a tough outer layer that should resist pp during a treatment.
hth clear up my post.
al
Re: Potassium permanganate in main tank with Anubias
Maybe the rummynose was weaker fish that didn't survive the treatment .
You will still have to repeat the treatment every 4th day for total of 4-5 repetitions to break the cycle of the parasite if you are treating for flukes .
How were the results day after the treat ?
Did they seemed better in breathing, clamped fins or the gill Movement ?
BTW. Sayid , KIA is military abbreviation for " killed in action " . MIA is also popular term meaning " missing in action " .
Re: Potassium permanganate in main tank with Anubias
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Originally Posted by
Filip
Maybe the rummynose was weaker fish that didn't survive the treatment .
You will still have to repeat the treatment every 4th day for total of 4-5 repetitions to break the cycle of the parasite if you are treating for flukes .
How were the results day after the treat ?
Did they seemed better in breathing, clamped fins or the gill Movement ?
BTW. Sayid , KIA is military abbreviation for " killed in action " . MIA is also popular term meaning " missing in action " .
Thanks Filip for clearing that .
I have the same problem myself with fluke and planning with the logistics of how to deal with 15 adult discus and no working filter , i hope to be ready in about 8 weeks .
Re: Potassium permanganate in main tank with Anubias
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Originally Posted by
sayid
Thanks Filip for clearing that .
I have the same problem myself with fluke and planning with the logistics of how to deal with 15 adult discus and no working filter , i hope to be ready in about 8 weeks .
2 ppm of PP for 4 hours won't necessarily wipe out your whole BB colonies from the filter Sayid.
You can get away with doing large waterchanges during the treatment period in your main tank .
Re: Potassium permanganate in main tank with Anubias
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Originally Posted by
Filip
2 ppm of PP for 4 hours won't necessarily wipe out your whole BB colonies from the filter Sayid.
You can get away with doing large waterchanges during the treatment period in your main tank .
I think i need to to sterilize the tank and the filter media using bleach or 10 ppm of PP while the fish are being treated with 2ppm of PP in another tank ( andrew soh )
method ,i don't wish to hijack Harry's thread so soon i will start a new thread and ask for every one's advise .
Re: Potassium permanganate in main tank with Anubias
Before treatment, fish show some kind of irritation, like occasional dash and scratch into objects. After treatment I can see some improvement, as they are less likely to do so, still shaking their fins some time. Well, I did the treatment with no filter. Don't plan to risk it for now.
My main purpose wasn't fluke, more like I want to give the tank a good clean. As coming back from the trip, i have 2 fish very weak and not eating, become so skinny. So something must happen in the water.
The 2 fish are in the hospital tank now, barely eat anything for 2 months now, I don't even know what to do. Keeping them in high temp with Metro 500mg/G. They just went through a full course of Furan2+kanamycin treatment a week before the metro. Poor fish, just want to save them,very nice solid red melon :(, now they look so pale. Got some live blackworms in there, hopefully they will have some
Re: Potassium permanganate in main tank with Anubias
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Originally Posted by
HarryDk
Before treatment, fish show some kind of irritation, like occasional dash and scratch into objects. After treatment I can see some improvement, as they are less likely to do so, still shaking their fins some time. Well, I did the treatment with no filter. Don't plan to risk it for now.
My main purpose wasn't fluke, more like I want to give the tank a good clean. As coming back from the trip, i have 2 fish very weak and not eating, become so skinny. So something must happen in the water.
The 2 fish are in the hospital tank now, barely eat anything for 2 months now, I don't even know what to do. Keeping them in high temp with Metro 500mg/G. They just went through a full course of Furan2+kanamycin treatment a week before the metro. Poor fish, just want to save them,very nice solid red melon :(, now they look so pale. Got some live blackworms in there, hopefully they will have some
After Furan , Kanamycine and Metro treat I'm affraid there is not much else you can do for thoose two discus Harry.
Just let the nature take its course and hope for the best . They may surprise you .
Re: Potassium permanganate in main tank with Anubias
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Originally Posted by
Filip
After Furan , Kanamycine and Metro treat I'm affraid there is not much else you can do for thoose two discus Harry.
Just let the nature take its course and hope for the best . They may surprise you .
one of them died yesterday, she look like she swimming, body stay up in the middle of the tank :(; if her gill isn't motionless, I may think she alive :((. Burried her under the backyard, the other redmelon still in very bad shape, not eating, so skinny and it break my heart looking at him. Don't even want to cull, just let him fight his fight and nature take its course. cryyyy
Re: Potassium permanganate in main tank with Anubias
I am sorry to hear your loss ,it is the sense of helplessness which hearts , look Discuspaul put a thread which involves putting a small piece of orange peel in the tank and it suppose to increase the appetite of the fish ,i have not tried this but you have nothing to loose and it is not going to cost any thing ,have a look at it ,it is in the
food section of the main forum under the heading of orange peel .
HTH
Sayid
Re: Potassium permanganate in main tank with Anubias
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Originally Posted by
sayid
I am sorry to hear your loss ,it is the sense of helplessness which hearts , look Discuspaul put a thread which involves putting a small piece of orange peel in the tank and it suppose to increase the appetite of the fish ,i have not tried this but you have nothing to loose and it is not going to cost any thing ,have a look at it ,it is in the
food section of the main forum under the heading of orange peel .
HTH
Sayid
Why did I forget about that, gonna try tomorrow