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Fenbendazole Coral Tank Treatment

Alexx

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Has any of you experienced treating the tank with fenbendazole. I am looking online and it seems to work. But can't find an up to dat information with a product and kinda the dose that you have to use. I wanna try to treat one of my tanks with it.
 
Be careful, since many online accounts I've seen mention that it kills all octocorals, so xenia, leathers, gorgonians, etc. Probably should pull as much of those out as possible before

Fenbendazole is a dewormer, so you'll have to look at pet supply stores. Make sure it's fenbendazole, not praziquantel or other. I think some people are using panacur. For dosing amount, you'll have to do unit conversions to dose 1.5-2mg per gallon of tank. Double triple check math
 
Fenbendazole is indeed a common treatment for clove polyps (several thread on the subject on Reef2Reef). I used a very small pinch of fenbendazole fish flakes and by the next day my small GSP colony retracted and eventually died even after moving it to a quarantine tank. I dosed every few days for 2-3 weeks. My two cleaner shrimp passed away a month or so later—not sure if that was related or not. No other livestock deaths or effects on coral.

Notably, Fenbendazole also does a number of vermitid snails. I used to have thousands in my display tank (on the underside of the aquascape) but eventually eradicated them in my display tank using a multi-prong approach.

Chris Meckley doses the equivalent to one small pinch of fembendazole flakes into his tanks once a week for pest control purposes (ie, white bugs and vermids if I recall correctly). He also had plans to develop a fish food with fenbendazole but I believe the federal gov’t has made getting access to the API more difficult so it is very hard to get your hands on fenbendazole via aquarium products distributors now.
 
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I got something from Amazon it was $10. I found this post: https://reefbuilders.com/2023/11/01/my-experience-with-fenbendazole/ and found the product.

I will first probably get all corals out and do a quick dip in peroxide and remove my toadstool, and my firework clove polyps and I wonder if mushrooms get affected or not. Is mushroom consider a soft coral? or only naphtha, toadstool are softies?

Also I will get all the snails safe cuz I think they will kill everything else.

I don't wanna just add that, then get a nutriment spike from the bristle worms and snails that will die by just dosing everything.

I herd there is also food flakes that you can give to fishes and that will help with fish parasites.
 
Mushrooms are corallimorphs, which are in class Hexacorallia.

From what I can tell online, only octocorals are affected, meaning corallimorpharia (mushrooms), ceriantheria (tube anemones), zoantharia (zoas and palys), and actinaria (true anemones) should not be affected? But anything might happen.

I would be prepared to do water changes and run carbon in case, and would probably test water a little more rigorously - including for ammonia
 
Slingfox said:
Fenbendazole is indeed a common treatment for clove polyps (several thread on the subject on Reef2Reef). I used a very small pinch of fenbendazole fish flakes and by the next day my small GSP colony retracted and eventually died even after moving it to a quarantine tank. I dosed every few days for 2-3 weeks. My two cleaner shrimp passed away a month or so later—not sure if that was related or not. No other livestock deaths or effects on coral.

Notably, Fenbendazole also does a number of vermitid snails. I used to have thousands in my display tank (on the underside of the aquascape) but eventually eradicated them in my display tank using a multi-prong approach.

Chris Meckley doses the equivalent to one small pinch of fembendazole flakes into his tanks once a week for pest control purposes (ie, white bugs and vermids if I recall correctly). He also had plans to develop a fish food with fenbendazole but I believe the federal gov’t has made getting access to the API more difficult so it is very hard to get your hands on fenbendazole via aquarium products distributors now.
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Fenbendazole Flake – AngelfishUSA

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JustinBolton said:

Fenbendazole Flake – AngelfishUSA

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thank you for the link. I didn’t know this vendor existed. One potentially very useful product is the metro flakes / pellets. That could be a more reliable way to treat fish going through medicated quarantine with metronidazole. The powder version of metro is easy to purchase but you have to bind it to food with Focus and the fish don’t always like the taste. Probably better uptake if the med is imbedded in the food from the start.
 
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Slingfox said:
thank you for the link. I didn’t know this vendor existed. One potentially very useful product is the metro flakes / pellets. That could be a more reliable way to treat fish going through medicated quarantine with metronidazole. The powder version of metro is easy to purchase but you have to bind it to food with Focus and the fish don’t always like the taste. Probably better uptake if the med is imbedded in the food from the start.
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My fish also eat it despite being a tropical flake, i got their pellets image.jpg

And tossed in the freezer for when/if i need them
 
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