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Old 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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Old 25-06-2014, 05:04 PM   #12
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Why don't you shift the rays out and treat your aro instead?
Ya lor, or remove the Aro?
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Old 25-06-2014, 06:05 PM   #13
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I think the question is why and where you get the anchor worms from?



U add new fish?

I have no idea too it just happen.
But my new fishes didn't have any anchor worms.

Could be from the new fishes.
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Old 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.
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Old 25-06-2014, 06:17 PM   #15
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alternatively you can get the ocean free med for achor worm - black label which is confirmed ray safe.

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.

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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.

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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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Old 25-06-2014, 06:29 PM   #16
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Ok.
Where did you got yours?
You keep rays too?

Got mine from Mainland Tropical before.

I have used Dimilin on more than 100 rays
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Old 25-06-2014, 06:30 PM   #17
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How your dosage like?
Your rays so prompt to anchor worms?
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Old 25-06-2014, 06:37 PM   #18
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How your dosage like?
Your rays so prompt to anchor worms?
The one from Mainland says 0.38mL per 100 gallons of water. Very concentrated.

I use Dimilin as part of my quarantine treatment for new rays
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Old 25-06-2014, 06:43 PM   #19
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The one from Mainland says 0.38mL per 100 gallons of water. Very concentrated.



I use Dimilin as part of my quarantine treatment for new rays

Yours in liquid form?
Have you ever accidentally. Over dose it ray got mati?
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Old 25-06-2014, 07:04 PM   #20
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Yours in liquid form?

Yes


Have you ever accidentally. Over dose it ray got mati?
Yup I think 2-3 times. Now I use a syringe to be more accurate with dosing
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