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Bubbles
I thought It had been my first sucsessful treatment. I dicovered my chocolate oranda had fish lice soon after I bought him, so I read up on how to cure it, I went out and bought General Cure capsules (it was the only thing around here the helped fish lice, but its also for hole-in-the-head & paracidic gill disease, so I dont know how good it is.) I also bought some stress coat to put in the tank after I had taken the lice off with tweazers. I did as followed, and everything looked good. No diseases followed, and I thought everything was fine. But apperently not all of the eggs had been killed, and last night when I came home late from work (I work in the fish department at PetCetra now..yay!) there was one louse on his tail. I took it off this morning, and added two more caplules (I need three, but I had run out.. so I thought it was better than nothing) and a cap full of stress coat. Is there aything else I can do to make sure all the lice are dead? They're nasty little creatures, and I feel so sorry for Chibi. I don't think they have attacked my other two yet luckily.
Thank you for any help! Chibi would apperciate it!
-Sarah
Devs
Were you doing water changes and gravel vac's through the treatment to get any eggs, or free swimmer's that may be too tiny to spot yet? Those are some nasty bugger's. dry.gif
You could salt to 0.3 % maybe,just to be sure.
Bubbles
I was doing water changes, but I never did a gravel vac.. I don't know why I didn't think of that! Thanks, I'll borrow my brothers when he gets home from work.
shellyjrose
I'm not an expert here but I've had goldfish for years and about 6 mths ago I found lice on all three of my fish. I first pulled them off then I vacumed the gravel (took about a 50% water change) and cleaned the sides of the tank well. I then used Applus+ Anti-Fluke as directed and they never came back. I hope this helps!
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