How to Treat Livebearer Disease with Levamisole
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- Learn how to use levamisole to treat camallanus red worms, skinny disease, and wasting disease.
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▶ How to Treat Camallanus Worms in Fish: • Health Corner: Cammala...
▶ How to Quarantine New or Sick Fish: • How to Quarantine New ...
▶ Care guide for Endler's livebearer: • Video
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▶ Levamisole (and measuring spoon): www.selectaquatics.com/Levamis...
▶ Quarantine medication trio: geni.us/MedTrio_GTF
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Consult a professional veterinarian for all health issues and recommended treatments concerning your fish. I am just a hobbyist providing general information on the topic and shall not be liable for any losses or damages related to the content of the video. Also, remember that some treatments may need to be altered depending on the species of the fish, so talk to your vet about the proper course of action.
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0:00 Intro
0:19 Treating endlers with parasites
2:16 What is levamisole?
3:41 How to treat fish with levamisole
5:29 Instructions for levamisole
6:13 Key takeaways about treating parasites
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*Here's where I bought the levamisole and measuring spoon: **www.selectaquatics.com/Levamisole.htm*
@Riley Bachelor I actually wrote an article on algae control here. Hope it helps! www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/aquarium-algae
Great, correct dosing is so important..
Wow!!! I have been searching all over the internet from past 3 days. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much for explaining about the disease as well as the treatment in detail. Much appreciated!!!
Thanks for this super clear and thorough video Irene!
Thanks for another informative video! Happy your fish pulled through.
Irene, Thank you! This is the clearest explanation I have found for the difference between the 2 kinds of dewormers and which to use for which parasite. And the Levamisole dosing explanation is also the clearest I've found. Thanks to you, I'll be purchasing it from Select Aquatics and trying to save the rest of my guppies and endlers. As always, keep putting out the excellent content! You are helping us fish keepers SO much!
Very informative and well presented. Please continue !
Thank you 🙏🏻 This video may help me save my fish. I’ve tried everything ! Ty for giving me validation when I thought I was crazy and couldn’t find ANYTHING on the internet.
This is going to help me a lot!
I love all your videos. This one is another great one!
Thank you so much! I lost 2 fish and I thought it was worms!!! I never knew a out this disease! Luckily everyone else is in good health💕😭Thanks again!😅
Great video, very informative, thanks for sharing
Excellent video! Good info 👍
Omg thank you for creating this video 😭 I’ve been keeping endlers too and everything would be great for a while, but then I would have a week where I would lose 5 fish in 5 days and couldn’t figure out why. They had the same symptoms as what you said in the video, so i’m gonna treat my tank with this method and hopefully won’t have to suffer anymore fishy deaths. Thanks!
Yes! It was so frustrating because I couldn't tell what was wrong for so long. And if the levamisole doesn't work, try the other dewormer ParaCleanse because it might be tapeworms. Best of luck to ya!
Great info thanks so much.
Great hobby and care from you Ma'am....knowledge speaks right now...Friend here watching
I have been using levamisole for years to also paralyze those pesky substrate worms, such as detritus worms and planarian worms. All of the paralyzed are happily eaten by the guppies. I dose levamisole every week for a month to call it victory in a planted tank. Thank you Girl Talks Fish
for sharing!
Oh, I had heard they might affect planaria, but didn't know it actually worked! That's so cool - thanks for sharing that with us. :)
Really? I added levamisole but i stil saw tiny white worm crawling on my tank glass so i squished them to obivion. But then again it could be something else.
@@hachibidelta4237 Those tiny white squirmy thread-like worms are detritus worms, which guppies or Japanese Rice Fish (medaka) love to eat :) They come out in the loads after dosing with levamisole.
Really appreciate your work!
My pleasure!
great video, helpful! sorry that you lost a few endlers, but this helped me out, I could never keep mollies they would always waste away on my even after med trio and quarantine periods. Next time will know better
Catching up on my Girl Talks Fish playlist during staycation :) Hey, is that the About Fish store at 0:35? It looks like their handwriting on the glass - Absolutely love that place ❤️ I wish I would’ve caught this video about 2 months ago when I lost half my guppies in my new mutt guppy breeding tank before realizing they likely had parasites. I was about to call Greg Sage for some levamisole but luckily my second round of General Cure did the trick! As a doc, I’m always curious about some of these meds - metronidazole is an antibiotic for bacteria in the human world, but always referred to as an anti parasitic in fish world. Fascinating. Another great video! Thanks so much!
Helped me soooooooooooo much thankyou! Highly recommend!!
Yay, so glad it helped!
Thank you for always sharing your tips and experiences.. it's really nice to learn about these things so you're always ready if something ever... I hope you have an amazing day 🙏✌️🐟🌿🌱🦐
Thank you so much! Hope you have an amazing Sunday as well. :)
Your videos are awesome
Thank you so much for this video. I really needed this advise for my guppies. The same happend to me and I havent known what to do
Thanks for sharing. One of my female mosaic tail is exactly what you described, being skinny all of a sudden and she stays at the base or near the water surface where there is no water current. She gets kind of bend when she is swimming near the water surface but her appetite is normal and I have seen the stringy white poop. Now time to buy the medicines.
Best of luck! Try ParaCleanse, and then try levamisole if it doesn't work. 👍
Hey, I know it's unrelated to the topic of the video but I noticed you have red algae and green spot algae! I fought the same algae for a couple of years in my tank. That red stuff especially would grow on everything and it looked exactly like what's in the video.
I just recently managed to mostly get rid of that red algae after I started injecting CO2 to the tank about 2 months ago. I never realized this until just before I setup CO2 on the tank but after a few hours of running the lights on my tank on my old setup with Seachem Excel and no CO2 injection, the pH would rise to over 8.0. This meant my CO2 was near 0ppm, even with the heavy surface agitation I had. Overnight the pH would drop to around 7.4-7.6, indicating CO2 was around 5ppm. If you're able to measure your tanks pH and kH, or you know your local water supply's kH, you could do the same tests on your tank to see what the CO2 levels are like (should come up if you search "pH kH CO2 chart" on Google). For me, within about 2 weeks of adding CO2, the red algae actually stopped reproducing! With CO2 now around 25ppm, my pH is 6.7 and I think the lower pH stops the red algae from reproducing. I Increased CO2 slowly to 25 ppm over about 4 weeks though, to minimize stress on the fish and they never really seemed bothered by it.
I have a theory that the red algae is some type of red cyanobacteria since it's sometimes a bit slimy and it peels off in sheets.Though other times it's a bit dry and fuzzy so it could also be a type of BBA...or some nasty combination of the two. I read online that cyano can only reproduce within a certain range of pH values so this perhaps explains why lowering the pH stopped it from reproducing. However it could also be a type of BBA, in which case fixing CO2 levels also usually stops BBA from reproducing.
I had to manually remove the red algae but after that, it was almost entirely gone! There's a few dying spots near my filter outtake that I couldn't clean properly because it's latched on there really strong but other that that, it hasn't grown anywhere else in the tank!
Similar situation with the green spot algae, it stopped growing as well, I just had to manually remove as much as I could.
I run medium-high lighting about 7 hrs a day. Also, I started dosing NilocG Thrive all-in-one with a 50% water change weekly (used to do 30% weekly) and I'm also using Seachem Advance for this week and next week to help my plants develop roots and bounce back after being suffocated by algae. I also increased the amount of biomedia in my filter because I heard that could help with cyano. The tank is definitely starting bouncing bank now, it's mostly algae free and the new plant growth is looking lush and healthy. The plants were in really bad shape before I fixed the algae problem.
Thank you!!!
Ugg! Platy's doing this..... Im in the process of the Med Trio... Levamisole will probably be next. I should have come here first. Thanks Irene.
@girltalksfish Thank you so much for all of your informative videos ! You have taught me so much 😊 im dealing with an unknown sickness in my tank and want to use salt. Will the salt be ok for my Kuhli loaches ?
Omg thank you for talking about this medication my Sword tail guppy colony was falling apart was losing a guppy almost every other day used this and haven't had any deaths in 2 weeks
Thanks u saved my fish My platys had this
Ig! I’ve been having so much trauma with my tiger endlers I just purchased! Thanks for sharing this. But I am sooo sad we lost some.
Thanks so much i just saved a strain of guppies with this method it only took two days too
Thank you for sharing your experience. You can't just take sick fish to the vet to get answers so having resources like this video are a wonderful tool. Yes more videos like this would be great. I keep a journal with notes I make from watching informative videos so I have a reference if I need it later. lol I'm a nerd
Hi. Can u please make a video on how to,treat Detritis worms
Thanks for sharing! I’ve been losing my guppies and endlers in a similar way, just one at a time they slow down and get a swollen belly. Maybe this treatment can help
This was the most comprehensive
I really needed this video. For so long two of my danio have been bloated and I do believe there's a little red thread hanging out the backend of the largest one. Recently one of my other Danios died and they always acted rather sluggish, didn't look too good and appeared to just slowly waste away
Oh man, best of luck with the treatment! Worms are the worst. :P
Detrite worms may cause any problems tô shrimps?
I Love your chanel, and I'm very courius about wat the set up you use to make the images of the fishes.
Cherrs from Brazil!
I had to use that on my main 400ltr tank after buying some fish from my LFS after quarantining them for a month they still had the worms grrr...They were the only new fish in the tank for months. I found the red Camallanus worms (which I show in my videos) in my Eheim filter when doing a clean one day. I have made a video showing the process also. I just purchased the Levamisole liquid from a local pet store.
BLESS you, my Tiger Endler "Angel Face" would be lost without your advice. 😃
Ohhhh I feel guilty for not thinking it was worms that made my dear platies skinny :( I thought they got hit with the incurable fish tuberculosis. Im so sorry fishies I should’ve tried treating you first :(( thanks Irene for the info! I’m gonna get some anti parasite med
Great info. 👍I wonder if this med can be used to pretreat other non live bearer in a quarantine tank.
Yes! I should have made this clearer in the video, but loaches, angelfish, puffers, wild-caught fish, etc. commonly get skinny disease because of parasites.
how much levamisole should i put in a 10 gallon tank? thanks i love your vid so informative
Thank you for sharing. EXCELLENT ADVICE 👍👍👍👍👍
Can LEVAMISOLE be used with bettas?
I believe so, but contact Greg Sage at selectaquatics.com to make sure because he's been breeding fish and using levamisole for many, many years. :)
Hey I just watched your video as my Plattys are going through this same thing for the hundredth time here in the UK we have flubendazole but I was just wondering on what you said about the salt bringing them back to normal after using meds. Did you use such a low amount of salt that it didn't affect your plants? Because I know you said you didn't want to use salt because you had plants and I've used salt in the past and it saw all of my plants off near enough
I’ve tried metroplex to save my African Cichlid with bad sunken belly, but haven’t had much success...thanks to this video I’m Definitely going to try this med!
P.s. I have a tiny growing channel, What editing software do you use? The on screen effects are really cool!
I use Wondershare Filmora. Great beginner video editing software with a one-time fee. Best of luck with your African cichlid!
@@GirlTalksFish Thanks, thats actually the one I use too...Guess I got much more to learn from it. 👍
I had no idea about this parasite until January when I lost all my guppies in my 20gal long. Rn I’m taking a break from live bearers but now Ik for the next time I do take care of them! Also peep Chris in the recommended video at the end 👀
Haha, he's the one who got me hooked on endlers in the first place!
Do you have any treatments against dropsy? Or any success treating it?
Regardless of any symptoms of this parasite, do you recommend that we treat Levamisole during the quarantine period [of the fish]?
Good question! I personally am going to stick with the quarantine medication trio. However, if any fish dies even after treatment with the med trio, then my next step is to add some more minerals and definitely consider dosing levamisole next. I had some dwarf chain loaches that looked a little skinny in quarrantine and I treated them with levamisole. Turns out they just weren't fed enough at the wholesalers or fish store. With a little extra food during feedings, their bodies are now nicely rounded and much healthier looking. :)
@@GirlTalksFish Thank you very much for the detailed answer to my question. I will follow your advice and thanks for this video, which I did not know about that parasite :)
Hello there! I have a question, can you put polished stones/rocks/pebbles in a fish tank?
Can you please help me.
My pregnant golden guppy is not at all eating. What should I do? I believe in you. Please help me.
Hi what is the recommended dosage of levamisole in a 17 litre tank please?
I lost an endler today, very much how you described. He died suddenly after resting on the leaves for a while. I thought maybe the tank needed cleaning so I changed the water and took some decor out. When I did, I found a little squiggly red worm. :S Now I'm wondering...I had neon and green neon tetras in the same tank - they were moved to a bigger home yesterday. I'm likely going to get some treatment first thing tomorrow. Do I need to treat the tetras too?
i did the levamisole first treatment 2 days ago and i did the water change so u recommend another dose and then third dose after 2 weeks ?? thank u
Do you have shrimp in your tank? If so they could be the reason why you can't find any dead fish.
I do in the main tank, so that totally makes sense!
@@GirlTalksFish can you use levamisole in a tank with shrimp??
How long did it take to arrive? I need it urgently
Could you do a video on columnaris?
Maybe... I'm not sure if I succeeded in completely eradicating the disease, so I'm a little hesitant to recommended a bulletproof treatment without more testing.
You added aquarium salt to your planted tank?
Is it safe for loaches because I have a tank with guppies and loaches and one female guppy has all these symptoms I can make a quarantine tank for her but I think it would be good to dose the whole tank.
Endlers are active, quiet aggressive to each other (play with theirs friend), and yes they jumping due curiosity what is outside the box. Some fishes laying them selves on some rock, leaf, to have a rest and sleep. Mine never dead, maybe because outside ponds?
How did your plants fare after the salt dosing?
Good question! It was such a low concentration that they ended up being fine, but yes, it's something to be aware of in case you have more sensitive species.
Lost one endler today from this disease. Can't seem to find any medication against parasites here in Australia.
How do you get rid of that algae that is in the picture? BBA but leaf have a thick coat of algae
once you do this you shouldn’t need it it again if no other fish is added correct?
do you turn off the filter when you leave the levimasole for 24 hours?
What dose of levamisole ?
Is this endler or livebearer specific, or would it be worth a try with my rams that show the exact same symptoms? I cannot see any worms and they do well for about 2-3 months, then they suddenly waste away.
Great question! Sorry I should have made it clearer that these worms affect many other kinds of fish like loaches, angelfish, puffers, etc. You can contact Greg Sage through his website selectaquatics.com to make sure they're safe for rams; he's very responsive and helpful. Also, I made the mistake of not keeping my ram at higher temperatures like 84°F and he ended up fading away over time because of that. Best of luck to ya!
I’m fighting TB in my fish tank. I already lost 10 fish. Can you make a vid about TB? Thank you !!!!
I'm so sorry to hear that! From what I understand, fish TB is a form of mycobacteriosis. Aquarium Co-Op just did a video on mycobacterial infections in neon tetras, but it also applies to other kinds of fish. th-cam.com/video/l7uK_YYljTY/w-d-xo.html
Here is the article he referenced on the disease: fisheries.tamu.edu/files/2013/09/SRAC-Publication-No.-4706-Mycobacterial-Infections-of-Fish.pdf
my 2 guppy is shaking because I had to do big water change due to camallanus... I used levamisole, does it mean they're doomed? :(
(I know this is unrelated, but I figured I’d comment it anyways just in case anyone has some advice for me) I set up my planted tank about a week ago! All the plants are doing super well I think, but I’m having a problem with bio film on the top! It looks almost like oil. If I remove it to the best of my abilities, it just grows back within a day or so. Should I be worried? I don’t want everything to die 😫
When i have fish i have like neons and hatchet rasboras and im noticing that one of the neons looks distorted body like a little bent, that fish died and suddenly 3weeks later another neon like that appear and then also died, i did medicate general cure but on the meds many of my fish died during medication after that seems ok but suddenly a month later a rasbora with distorted body i found swimming and noticing that now my rasboras are getting fewer. And also i have pink zebras but those zebras get those distorted bodies like 4months after. i transfer the remaining zebra fish to another tank and medicate them with same med and after that no one died with that symptoms again. I did washed with soap and change substrate from the main tank and change sponges, and after that the remaining fish did do well now
We have PRAZILEX a dog dewormer which has praziquantel + levamisole. Can i use it? If so how do i apply it its in a tablet form 😭 please help i want my guppy to survive 😭😭
Now i know why all my 30 guppys died😣 i love your videos!!
What kind of brown algae is that on the leaves at the start of the video?
It's actually black beard algae, even though it's flat and not bushy.
IRENE!! Great question in the beginning of your video. Why does Pet Smart only carry males?!!! Same at ours.
Michael, I would suspect the vendor supplying Petco realizes if customers could breed their own, Petco wouldn’t need to keep buying from them. Just speculating, I have no information to support that view.
Thanks for the information. I lost two wild caught bluefin killifish that had those symptoms. I used a general cure as you did, but it didn’t save them. They were part of a wild caught community tank of fish that are not showing those symptoms. I may contact Greg and follow through with treatments for my remaining fish.
Michael! My best guess is that the females are boring looking and don't sell as well? Or people are afraid of getting overrun by babies?
@@chrisshelton3504 That is a great observation!
Sad part is i have no access to fish meds, tried salt sadly it seems to have no effect, the best i can do is palliative care.
I'm a little concerned about my betta fish it's a Dragon betta fish I think something may be happening He stays on the top of the fish tank does he need air or food I feed him all the time I have the hanging water pump that came with the 10 gallon tank kit I increased water flow for more air the water is kinda cloudy should I change the water I have no ideal how to clean a fish tank I also have neon Tetris that have or looks like food particles on their bodys I don't know what to do can I manually clean the Tetris with a soft sponge? I think I've seen one of the Tetris with ring worms the second week I had them but I don't see it anymore I thought it was a baby tetras or poop 🐟
My fish has this problem... but he has not died. He's been alive for over a year now. I also have a conjoined fish he's also doing fine
To,what is my luck.
My fish store only gets males too. They said they rarely get females but I didn’t ask why. Next time I go I will ..!?
But..... can it be used in a tank with scaleless fish?
Good question! I would email Greg Sage to make sure since he's used the medication for so many years, but I used it to treat my loaches and they didn't have any problems with it.
I tried to feed pellet soaked on garlic juice on my female guppy with white poop for 1 week then this morning I saw her poop went back to normal.
Can this affect other kinds of fish such as pea puffers?
Tom Lee my neons got it. Killed all but three. :( for some reason no guppies got it.
@@thehornwortofhornwort9832 Good to know thanks for the info. Puffers are know for parasites as many are wild caught. I recently lost one that would keep loosing weight despite eating.
Tom Lee none of my pea puffers I’ve ever kept have showed signs of parasites in quarantine. maybe they were farmed?
Anyone in UK know any meds to use?
Ive lost 15 Guppys and 5 Platys in last month or so , no marks on them but ive only lost Livebearers, my Otos and Corys etc are fine and water tests are perfect.
Im going mad and so stressed, ive tried all sorts of meds but not this one in the video but cant find it in UK so anyone know what to do????
All of these great meds are not available in Europe sadly. I treat my endlers with methylene blue and feed them regular flakes soaked in water with epsom salt and it works.
Now I know what killed my guppy :(
Oh no, I'm sorry to hear that!
Same
I just found this video after I lost 3 of my Mollies due to this problem :(
You added salt to your planted tank??
Yes, I added Greg's suggested amount of 1 Tbsp per 5 gallons. Not sure if that will hold true for all plants, but it was weak enough to not affect mine at all. 👍
Girl Talks Fish oh great!! Thank you!!
we cant even access general cure
𝑆𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑓𝑢𝑙! 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠!
Luckily you didn’t add the footage of death endler .I’m having dinner.
Yeah, I don't like to see dead fish either. 😥
And NONE of the medications that actually work are available here in Canada. So frustrating.
That's cuase of poeple over using them resulting in residence to medicines needed for humane use.
Unless you know the history of the fish cos in some cases it might just be old age 🤔
It isnt usual for a fish to die from old age because age simply makes them more susceptible to disease that usually ends them. I see what you mean though! I also had this problem and thought it was old age (which was likely the reason they easily got it then died)
Bad choice to watch while eating breakfast
Lol, oh no!
Good to know. But a 4 dollar fish turns into a 30 dollar project of guess work and hope. Lol