Re: Di n Butyl Stannate?

[throatwarbler mangrove <kta6662003@yahoo.com>]

Camellanus responds to 'levamisole'.Camellanus are the
thread-like red worms you sometimes see hanging from a
fish's vent. Aquarium Pharmecuticals sells it under
the label Discomed. As much as I despise medicating
fish I *have* successfully treated camellanus
infestations in killies and african cichlids (to the
point where the fish recovered and reproduced
successfully) by following the directions on the box
-> mix with readily eaten food like blackworms or
tubifex, feed 2x a day for 2 weeks. The amusing thing
is, they don't sell enough pills in one box of
Discomed for 2 weeks of treatment :-( My success with
this has been very well documented in the Krib when I
first wrote about it in 1989 :-) It's the only 'trade'
fish medication I've found that was good for anything.
At least 'Melafix' makes the tanks smell nice.

Matt
--- steev ward <steevward@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> It is basically the same di-n -butyl tin oxide
> (maybe identical). It is usually
> used for internal worms, specifically tapeworms.
> Disco-Worm is pretty safe.
> Thing is that although people talk about tapeworms
> in discus I don't remember
> when I've seen one, and I've dissected a lot of
> discus. I've found tapeworms in
> goldfish from an outdoor pond and sticklebacks from
> local ditches, but I hardly
> ever see them in tropicals.
> What discus DO get alot is Capillaria worms, and I
> don't know if Di-n -butyl
> Tin Oxide works on that (though it could).
> I've used di-n -butyl tin oxide before (quite a few
> times) but I can't really
> tell you if it did any good.
>  Synonyms: dibutyloxostannane; Dibutyltin oxide;
> Di-n-butyltin oxide.
> 
> Steev
> 
> w wrote:
> 
> > Steev,
> >
> > Do you know anything about Di n Butyl Stannate?
> 
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