Re: Di n Butyl Stannate?

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, throatwarbler mangrove wrote:

> 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.

I actually concur with this.  We had some apistos sold to us by another
club member many years back (not with the club for quite some time now)  
that had a horrible camallanus infestation.  The member had been using old
tank water to seed their daphnia pond outside and had thus been keeping
the parasite cycle going and re-infesting their tanks.  After positively
id'ing the worms (they were very clearly poking out of the fishs' anus),
we bought the levamisole in Canada (couldn't find any here), and it did
the trick immediately.

The other two medications we've succesfully used have been flubenol aka
fluke tabs (to get rid of hydra infestations that tended to show up with
fish from a certain famous pacific northwest apisto breeder), and
erithromyacin (to temporarily knock out cyanobacteria).  In all three
cases, these were very obvious symptoms and very clear which medication 
was correct.

  - Erik

> 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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