Is this whipworm eggs?

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12-10-2018, 12:34 AM
heyaming

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Is this whipworm eggs?

hi all:

Nice to meeting you all, I am a discus keeper in China, recently I notice some thing happen with one of my fish.

its a baby fish breed by two of my old fish, and he is one years old now, last weekend I found one of these baby fish facing corner and not responding to feeding. and he carrying a very long, transparent poop. so I take out the poop, and put it under a microscope.

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as I found on Google, its looks like the egg of Whipworm, is it correct ? So how to treatment this fish or whole tank. And I have some medicine in my home ( Praziquantel; Metronidazole; Levamisole.) which one will kill this thing? And how is the dosage?

thanks a lot !
12-19-2018, 02:22 PM
zeev11

Re: Is this whipworm eggs?

Those are definitely capillaria eegs.
Nedol by JBL is very effective treatment. Levamisole is effective as well. Especially when mixed with food.
12-19-2018, 06:01 PM
Tuterosso

Re: Is this whipworm eggs?

how much levamisole give in food? i have levamisole 8%
12-20-2018, 12:26 AM
zeev11

Re: Is this whipworm eggs?

Calculate the amount to be 0.3% of the food.
12-20-2018, 06:04 AM
Tuterosso

Re: Is this whipworm eggs?

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Originally Posted by zeev11

Calculate the amount to be 0.3% of the food.

help me with this dont wanna make mistake, i only found 1,4 teaspoon on 100g water
01-23-2019, 11:53 PM
heyaming

Re: Is this whipworm eggs?

thank you! I already add some Levamisole in my tank, the fish is doing fine now!