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25-06-2014, 03:16 PM | #11 |
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Why don't you shift the rays out and treat your aro instead?
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25-06-2014, 05:04 PM | #12 |
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25-06-2014, 06:05 PM | #13 |
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25-06-2014, 06:07 PM | #14 |
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Good ideas guys but I don't have a spare tank on hand to temp hus the aro.
Limited space at my hus too. |
25-06-2014, 06:17 PM | #15 | |
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You try that on your rays? Bo tai chi? Actually I read more in depth. The crustacean Lernaea is often called "anchorworm" by aquarists as it anchors deeply in the fish skin with its branched suction organ and has an elongated body without visible limbs. At the back end, there are two sac-like outgrowths where eggs develop. It takes the eggs between several days and and two weeks to attain maturity. Then they fall off and the larvae hatch. The mother crustacean dies and is repelled from the fish tissue after the eggs have fallen off. The laravae are also parasites and go to the gills of the fish to suck blood. As larvae, they attain sexual maturity there. After mating, the female larvae leave the fish and swim around as planktonic organisms for a short time. Then they find a host and bore their way into its skin. Treatment: 1. Dimilin Powder The only known method of killing this parasite, without killing the fish is DIMILIN POWDER which can be used safely at any water temperature and has an action of sterilizing the adult and larval stages of this parasite which insures that all eggs produced, after the application of Dimilin, will not hatch. Method: Dimilin Powder at the rate of 1 gram per ton of pond water. Measure out the quantity required and mix in a plastic bucket with pond water ensuring that the powder is dissolved then add to the pond in the previous manner. A second dosage may be needed to ensure that the life cycle of the anchor worm has been halted. After this second application the dead adults, which will still be hanging from the fish, can be removed using tweezers but making sure that the hooks, as well as the tail of the anchor worm are removed and then apply a proprietary topical dressing to prevent a secondary infection. Note Dimilin also goes under the name diflubenzuron. Actually I wanted to do it with the rays. Just in case there a few growing at the body. But they are still young haven mature so can't see with my naked eyes. |
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25-06-2014, 06:29 PM | #16 |
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25-06-2014, 06:30 PM | #17 |
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How your dosage like?
Your rays so prompt to anchor worms? |
25-06-2014, 06:37 PM | #18 |
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25-06-2014, 06:43 PM | #19 |
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25-06-2014, 07:04 PM | #20 |
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