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Hi all,
Though flubendazole is a safe medication by many accounts and experiences including my own, I have a concern. This past year I have seen several posts where people have asked for help on tail standers. During the discussion it came out that they had recently used flubendazole.
I am wondering if this is a real side effect we should be aware of . If you had fish that exhibited any symptoms of tail standing, head standing, or loss of balence with in 1-2 weeks of treating with flubendazole please post your experiences, including the dose you used and the time you used it.
Part of my concern comes from what I have seen posted here, but also from some telephone conversations I had with people on the board. I question the dose being used also here because, the dose used to be
1/4 teaspoon per 20 gal when Jehmco sold it last year,
Florida tropical fish farms dose is 1/2teaspoon per 30 Gal., both of these doses are for the same 5% flubendazole... Mfg by chemaqua. That difference in dose could be a problem if there is a side effect in some fish.
Please help the hobby here, and share your experiences with this med. I don't believe its a common side effect, but it may be related to your water chemistry and if we can get a few cases together... maybe we can put together some similarities.
thanks,
al
There are others as well as those that did not post about it. Coincidence?
-al
Though flubendazole is a safe medication by many accounts and experiences including my own, I have a concern. This past year I have seen several posts where people have asked for help on tail standers. During the discussion it came out that they had recently used flubendazole.
I am wondering if this is a real side effect we should be aware of . If you had fish that exhibited any symptoms of tail standing, head standing, or loss of balence with in 1-2 weeks of treating with flubendazole please post your experiences, including the dose you used and the time you used it.
Part of my concern comes from what I have seen posted here, but also from some telephone conversations I had with people on the board. I question the dose being used also here because, the dose used to be
1/4 teaspoon per 20 gal when Jehmco sold it last year,
Florida tropical fish farms dose is 1/2teaspoon per 30 Gal., both of these doses are for the same 5% flubendazole... Mfg by chemaqua. That difference in dose could be a problem if there is a side effect in some fish.
Please help the hobby here, and share your experiences with this med. I don't believe its a common side effect, but it may be related to your water chemistry and if we can get a few cases together... maybe we can put together some similarities.
thanks,
al
There are others as well as those that did not post about it. Coincidence?
-al
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