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[Brett4Perth]

Couple of questions Vince.

What do you use to treat your fish in quarantine as prophylactic against possible flukes/camallanus.

What is this artemia replacement fry food.

How soft is "very, very soft"?

Sorry to hear about your male, but it makes me feel a lot less guilty. Don't those dwarfs have a perchance for dieing.

Cheers
Brett

[JiggyJigs]

hey guys
I saw these fish today in real form. They are awesome looking fish. Any other guys out there willing to breed these things should get to it...god knows we need stock of healthy, quality dwarf's in perth.
Great work Vincent!

Dave

[mtchye]

Hi Brett,

In quarantine I treat them first with praziquantel for the flukes/tapeworms, and then levamisole for the roundworms (aka camallanus).. That takes care of your nematodes, cestodes, and trematodes all together. What this doesn't treat is any bacterial or fungal infections, and any protozoal type infections. For this I wait 3-4 weeks for the fish to show any symptoms. The problem we are having is fish spawning in the quarantine tank lol - we can't move them around from the quarantine tank before the quarantine period is up!

The artemia replacement food I was given a bit of is called Proton. If you google Proton artemia replacement you will find the company's page. I believe in LFS you can get a similar product called cyclop eeze.

By very very soft I am talking between 1-4 degrees for both kH and gH. Cacs might like a bit higher than that but with their wide range and adaptability I thought there was no point changing.

Thanks for the kind words Dave, yeah they are a nice fish - now to see how the kribensis turn out!

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Edited by: mtchye at: 12/16/03 8:14 am