Re: apisto with intestinal worms - hold the phone !!!

["Simon" <svavev@hunterlink.net.au>]

Hangon - the worms are not camallanus according to a post on the krib ( the
last one actually - http://www.thekrib.com/Diseases/nematodes.html#15 )
because it says that the camallanus worms reproduce by producing eggs that
require an intermediate host and are endemic to North America. My fish were
imported recently from Asia, native grounds of a worm called capillaria
which produce live babies inside their bodies as I have witnessed in the
worms I examined from the dead female apisto. Will the same medication work
for capillaria ?

Regards,

Simon Voorwinde

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon" <svavev@hunterlink.net.au>
To: <apisto@majordomo.pobox.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: apisto with intestinal worms


> Thanks very much Ken, and everyone else who has responded so quickly . I
> love this group !!! I do have one more question though - one of my texts
say
> that sometimes the treatment of nematodes can be worse than the disease
and
> the purgative effect of the medication can cause other secondary
infections
> and tissue damage ( caused by the hooked head section of the worms ( the
> scolex if I remember rightly )). When you treated your fish did they go
> straight back onto normal food or did you follow up with some antibiotic
in
> case of secondaty infections ?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon Voorwinde
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