Anchor worm and fish lice problem...

[Julie in Hondo]

Hello all,
I have not posted here in such a long time because I have not had any
problems for over two years....but the other day I added a new fish to my
tank after not noticing anything in QT after 10 days (I know , should have
been a month) Anyway, I now have one fish with fish lice (One) and he has
jumped to another fish and now the new one had an anchor worm (which I
removed). Rick Hess' book says to use Program and I bought some of that just
now at the vet. Do I just put the tablet in the tank? Or do I desolve it
first? Any help would be appreciated!!
Julie in Hondo

[Foundryrat]

Julie in Hondo wrote:
> Hello all,
> I have not posted here in such a long time because I have not had any
> problems for over two years....but the other day I added a new fish to my
> tank after not noticing anything in QT after 10 days (I know , should have
> been a month) Anyway, I now have one fish with fish lice (One) and he has
> jumped to another fish and now the new one had an anchor worm (which I
> removed). Rick Hess' book says to use Program and I bought some of that just
> now at the vet. Do I just put the tablet in the tank? Or do I desolve it
> first? Any help would be appreciated!!
> Julie in Hondo
>
>
fish get lice? Jeez i got a lot to learn. I'm
just trying to get my fish to survive!

[Laura]

Aside from picking the lice off yourself the only known med. remedy for
lice is Potassium promanganate, hope I spelled that right, bad thing is
you can only get it from a chemical company. I had this same prob a few
years ago, the goldfish were covered in lice, I tried to no avail to rid
them by taking tweezers and and removing as much as I dared stressing
the fish to do so. It's almost a no win situation with water lice. Mine
also had anchor worms and I did rid them of that but they were literally
infested with lice and had to be humanely put down. Since you've only
seen 1 lice, just watch closely and remove anymore asap. Good luck I
know it's very stressful when one of your beautiful GF is sick.

[Koi-Lo]

"Laura" > wrote in message
...
>
> Aside from picking the lice off yourself the only known med. remedy for
> lice is Potassium promanganate, hope I spelled that right, bad thing is
> you can only get it from a chemical company. I had this same prob a few
> years ago, the goldfish were covered in lice, I tried to no avail to rid
> them by taking tweezers and and removing as much as I dared stressing
> the fish to do so. It's almost a no win situation with water lice. Mine
> also had anchor worms and I did rid them of that but they were literally
> infested with lice and had to be humanely put down. Since you've only
> seen 1 lice, just watch closely and remove anymore asap. Good luck I
> know it's very stressful when one of your beautiful GF is sick.
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Did you try Clout to get rid of the lice?
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[Laura]

The pet shop I always deat with said nothing would get rid of the lice
except potassium promanganate. I tried several things anyway. don't
remember exactly what all I did try.

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potassium permanganate will not get rid of anchor worms or argulus. however,
dimilin, which is very safe for fish will and you can now buy it in "anchors away".
Ingrid

>Aside from picking the lice off yourself the only known med. remedy for
>lice is Potassium promanganate,


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[ranchu]

Dimilin is easily obtainable now-a-days. PondCare has Dimilin and you
can get it from www.DrsFosterSmith.com website. It sells for $10.99
for 16oz and treats 1,920 gallons. You can call in an order and get is
pretty fast. I live in a small farming community in the boonies and it
was dilivered in about 3 days, no special shipping was used, so if you
live in a more metro area it might even come faster. The thing that
helps is ordering early in the week.

HTH. Tom L.L.

wrote:
> potassium permanganate will not get rid of anchor worms or argulus. however,
> dimilin, which is very safe for fish will and you can now buy it in "anchors away".
> Ingrid
>
> >Aside from picking the lice off yourself the only known med. remedy for
> >lice is Potassium promanganate,
>
>
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[Julie in Hondo]

"ranchu" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> Dimilin is easily obtainable now-a-days. PondCare has Dimilin and you
> can get it from www.DrsFosterSmith.com website. It sells for $10.99
> for 16oz and treats 1,920 gallons. You can call in an order and get is
> pretty fast. I live in a small farming community in the boonies and it
> was dilivered in about 3 days, no special shipping was used, so if you
> live in a more metro area it might even come faster. The thing that
> helps is ordering early in the week.
>
> HTH. Tom L.L.
>
> wrote:
>> potassium permanganate will not get rid of anchor worms or argulus.
>> however,
>> dimilin, which is very safe for fish will and you can now buy it in
>> "anchors away".
>> Ingrid
>>
>> >Aside from picking the lice off yourself the only known med. remedy for
>> >lice is Potassium promanganate,
>>

I do live in a rural area and I went ahead and used the Program tablet. I
disolved it in tank water first. That was Thursday. I did remove as many of
the anchor worms and (now) 2 lice that I found. The offending fish also had
a white puffy spot with red underneath. I usually keep about .1% salt in the
tank and raised it to .3%. The white spot is gone and the one fish with most
of the worms appears to be almost free of them. The worms that I do see
appear to be clear in color...not grey like they were. The Program does not
seem to be effecting the fish at all. They all seem happy and never did show
any signs of stress over this. Anyway,
the article I read before I dosed the tank is found here

http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/ponds/Sanders_Goldfish%20Health%20Part%201.html

As I said I also read and own Rick Hess's book and both sources and several
other I found while searching said it works and does not hurt fish.

I'll let you know after a few weeks. I do plan to change part of the water
this weekend (usually this is done every weekend) and dose another tablet.
These are 209.7 gram tablets in a 50 gallon tank.

Julie in Hondo