1/2 blind coral fish has lost weight and his fins are fraying. He cannot get food effectively when competing with the other fish. This is made worse by his behavioral reluctance to go to the bottom to get food. I decided to move him to the QT to fatten him up. There he can eat without competition.
One of the blue leopards is losing weight (wasting) and yet is still trying to eat. He spits a lot of it back out. This is consistent with the parasite issues I have had before. Will try the following treatment but using flubendazole instead of levamasole. Flubendazole is much better tolerated by the discus. Added 90% of 1.5 tsp of 20% flubendazole to the big tank (i.e., 1/3 tsp/20 gallons). Will need to repeat next week.
http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showthread.php?77832-Capillaria-The-Cure&highl
addendum. Flubendazole is effective against Capillaria:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22024017
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