My poor fish are in a quarantine tank being treated for both capillaria and camellanus worms using levamisole which seems to be doing the trick for them. I am clearing their normal home now, having nuked it once more with levamisole which doesn't "do" snails or capillaria eggs and figured I might as well nuke them while I am at it. I have fenbendazole here which is supposed to be added to food. No fish in that tank so no food. Will dumping it straight into the water wipe out the pests regardless of their life cycle stage? The tank is also planted if that needs to be considered. Thanks!
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I use Safe Guard, a Fenbendazole based med to sold to treat goats for worms and is available from farm supply places. It is a white milk-like liquid which I use at 1 drop per gallon. I use it mainly for hydra and any unusual worm like things I find in a tank. It does not cause any harm at this level to fry, and hydra are usually in the fry tank. But it should not be use but every third day, although I have never had to dose a second time. Since there are 20 drops per mL, I use 1.5 mL to dose a 30 gallon tank.
PVAS recently had a vet talk about fish diseases and how to treat them. I was hoping she would give us a summary table of the treatments, not sure if she sent it to PVAS. But the one thing I learned that caused me to change what I do to treat fish was related to velvet (oodinium). Apparently the usual treatments for ich do not work with velvet. Velvet only responds to copper.