Is Waterlife Protozin safe for Plecos???

plecolover · Post by **plecolover** » 13 Jun 2004, 16:58

The white spot diseases (ICH and/or Oodinium) seems returning again. Now I have maintained the water temperature at 30 degree celsius, and planned to dose medicine to fully eradicate them (they always re-occur every 3 months).

I would like to seek help from the experts here to provide me some information whether Waterlife Protozin is safe for Plecos, and the safe and effective dosage (full dosage or % of the recommended dosage)???

Thank in advance!!!

Post by **Barbie** » 13 Jun 2004, 17:02

What type of maintenance schedule do you use on your tanks? Recurring problems with parasites like that shouldn't be happening. You might look into an inline UV sterilizer for their tank, also.

Barbie

plecolover · Post by **plecolover** » 13 Jun 2004, 18:05

This is the second time the white spot disease happened again within this year. In the last incident, I use copper sulphate (Sera Oodinium) to cure the disease. Finally, got 20 lovely plecos dead, some of them dead of the whtie spots, some of them dead of the medicine

As per some documents, white spots can escape from treatments if they hide inside the intestine of fishes. I think I need to start medical treatment as soon as possible, and repeat the treatment several times in order to fully eradicate them.

So is Waterlife Protozin safe for plecos??? How much is the dosage which is safe for plecos, but effective against white spots (ICH and Oodinium)???

Post by **Barbie** » 13 Jun 2004, 18:56

Waterlife protazin is not sold in the US, so I'm sorry, I can't be of help in that respect. It certainly is NOT normal that your fish would have a recurrence of a problem with parasites without the introduction of new fish that hadn't been through a proper quarantine period, or some large volume of stress. A UV sterilizer and 30% daily water changes would be MUCH less stressful on your fish, and probably more effective, in the long run, IMO.

Barbie

DeLBoD · Post by **DeLBoD** » 13 Jun 2004, 19:18

I have used Waterlife Protozin on Synos, Loaches, plecs, and corys with no problems.
Make sure there is plenty of surface agitation for oxygen.

Graeme · Post by **Graeme** » 13 Jun 2004, 22:42

Yes it's safe!

G.

plecolover · Post by **plecolover** » 14 Jun 2004, 02:39

Many thanks for the information first.

I got one bottle of Waterlife Protozin. As per its instruction sheet, it recommends to adminstrate the dosage to half for scaleless fishes. So should I administrate the dosage to half for plecos???

pleco_breeder · Post by **pleco_breeder** » 14 Jun 2004, 04:17

plecolover,

I would use half dose for plecos, since all catfish are "technically" scaleless. However, any report that says ick is capable of hiding in the intestine isn't worth the paper it's written on. There is an encysted form that will not be treatable, but that takes place in the substrate, or under the slime layer of the fish. An extended treatment will still get rid of it.

Larry Vires

plecolover · Post by **plecolover** » 14 Jun 2004, 04:43

Actually, my plecos were suffering from both ICH and Oodinium last time. Now they re-occured again. I will maintained the water temperature at 30 degree celsius for a more long period of 14 days and dose Waterlife Protozin to get rid of them. I just wonder if I dose full dosage of Protozin, the strength may be too strong causing harm to plecos; if I dose half, the strength may be too weak causing no effect on the white spots. So any safe but effective dosage

jurassic_pork · Post by **jurassic_pork** » 14 Jun 2004, 09:28

I like del have used protozin on loaches cory's and plecs without problems,Always starting with half dose for the first few courses and see how it goes with the fish if you need to add a little more on the third or fourth course just add more slowly,Its much safer this way than adding the full ammount reccomended by manufacturers.I have used protozin a few times now at half dose always getting the required result.

Thanks,Mark

plecolover · Post by **plecolover** » 14 Jun 2004, 10:39

Many thanks for the information again. I will start the treatment with Protozin with half dosage first, and update you the results few days later!!!!

plecolover · Post by **plecolover** » 18 Jun 2004, 04:15

Today is the fifth day of the treatment. All white spots seems gone. One died of the disease. He is my lovely L148 namely BigMouthBoy

Waterlife Protozin is really a good and reliable medicine for curing external parasite disease of plecos.

Thanks for the information provided by the experts here!!!!