Re: More on the nematode worms (long)

["F. Tadeo" <el_boy@hotmail.com>]

i had that problem several years ago wiht one female guppy who only had one 
worm sticking out of her.  within two months all the fish had worms.  i 
think that you take her out quickly because each worm lays thousands of eggs 
that come out with her feces!  although i took the infected female guppy 
within a day of noticing it, which was a day after i bought her, all my 
other fish got them nonetheless :(  i wasn't able to read about the cure on 
the krib at the time (it was during my non internet days) so i just 
destroyed all the fish and resetup my tank as the book i read instructed me 
to.  good luck trying to cure her!
-frank


>From: Sarah LeGates <slegates@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: apisto@listbox.com
>To: apisto@listbox.com
>Subject: More on the nematode worms (long)
>Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:21:24 -0800 (PST)
>
>Hey all,
>
>I jumped the gun a bit--I read the archives at the Krib and will try
>to find some levamisol when I get home on Monday.  A more appropriate
>question then becomes: how do I reliably estimate total water volume
>in the tank?  Capacity is 56 gallons dry, but I couldn't even begin
>to tell you how many pounds of gravel are in there.  I think a safe
>assumption would be to measure the square inches of water above the
>gravel surface, add a little more for the interstitial water
>(although that water really isn't actively in the water column, so
>should I include it?), then subtract a little more for tank
>decorations.  Will the levamisol harm the 2 scraggly live plants that
>I have in the tank?  Is it safe to assume it won't harm the
>nitrifying bacteria?  Also, given that I don't know how the infection
>came in, I should probably treat my other tank.  No one is showing
>any symptoms, but there has been some net sharing and one fish moved
>from the infected tank to the "uninfected" tank just before I noticed
>the worms in the H. bimaculatus.  While I'm not too concerned about
>"saving" the fish in the infected tank, I am concerned about the fish
>in the "uninfected" tank: pygmy cory cats, A. cacatuoides, lemon
>tetras, and a couple of oddball catfish.  Has anyone had a negative
>experience treating these types of smaller fish with levamisol?
>
>Finally, can anyone suggest guidelines on the total number of doses I
>might need to give?  The krib archives seem to suggest that in its
>aqueous form the levamisol is effective against every stage of the
>nematode lifecycle--is this true, or will I need to re-dose the tanks
>in a few weeks?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sarah LeGates
>
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