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Ethan14 Big Fish Posts: 312 Kudos: 339 Votes: 18 Registered: 06-Jul-2005	Hey I've been feeding some of my reluctant fish mosquito larvae from a bucket of water outside over the past few days. Suddenly I've had 3 deaths in two different tanks. I've lost a kribensis, and emperor tetra, and a Geophagus Jurupari. I just tested the water parameters and everything is fine. Is it possible I have introduced a parasite or a disease through the mosquito larvae?
Posted 16-May-2007 20:50
longhairedgit Fish Guru Lord of the Beasts Posts: 2502 Kudos: 1778 Votes: 29 Registered: 21-Aug-2005	Edited by longhairedgit Actually yes, there could be a parasite problem , possibly even a two-layered one.Wild Chronomid midge larvae (bloodworm) and mosquito larvae often suffer from infections of mermithid nematodes, a kind of parasitic roundworm that can be passed to fish, and the parasitic worms themselves may play host to smaller trematoda, and flagellate and ciliate protozoans. Basically treat for the roundworm which they will almost certainly have with treatments like sterazin etc,and a follow up treatment like metronidazole to kill protozoans, or choose the all in one solution, jungle labs antiparasite formula, which will nail protozoa at the same time. Perhaps go with frozen gamma irradiated bloodworm, glassworm, or blackworm from now on too. Almost zero parasite risk. I should also mention that the mosquito larvae your getting might be from a tainted water source, and seeing as the deaths have been so quick, its also very possible that either the water that gets dropped in with the larvae has a toxin in it , or the larvae themselves are a concentrated source of the toxin, since they may have accrued some toxins from where they were living.
Posted 17-May-2007 03:49


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