Best treatment for flukes

birdy

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I think my new royal gramma has flukes, I recieved it yesterday from swf. It is in my quarantine tank, you can see tiny almost clear/white worms on it body I could see them moving. What is the best treatment?
 

birdy

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Thanks sammy, I did a search and all I found was either fresh water dips and a product called clout. I am also not sure on the process on freshwater dipping do I know the water needs to be the same temp and pH, but do you just put them in the water without acclimation and for how long and then do you just throw them back in the QT tank and should I medicate the QT tank as well as fresh dips? Anyone out there know? The fish has quite a few of these worms around its face, it looks pretty miserable.
Also anyone know of a good book on marine fish disease and treatment?
 

birdy

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Well I had to work today so I didn't see the post on formalin fw dip. I tried to research as much as I could last night and I went to my LFS today after work, and I talk to them quite a while about different options (a few of them know what they are doing but I still take their recommendations very carefully). I decided to go with clout. I dosed about 3 hours ago and the gramma seems to be doing okay.I hope this works.
 

birdy

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Well darn it, this is so frustrating, I have treated it twice (once yesterday and once today) with clout in the quarantine tank, it does not seem to be harming the fish (other than the stress of being in the QT tank and me constanlty checking on it)Should I stop the clout and do fresh water dips or since the clout doesn't seem to be harming the fish should I just continue it.
I just want to make the fish better with the least amount of stress.
 
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