Mr_Manifesto

Ideally you'd want this fish with a few others of their kind, but as long as you keep the water clean and feed them, it'll be just fine. They do enjoy the 'safety' of shoaling together, but its not going to hurt if they don't

Fenbendazole I believe is the medicine in Panacur C. I use a different brand (safe-guard) but should be the same idea I've used this but dosing it isn't exactly easy. I know where I get it from, they sell it in different strengths, for large/medium/small dogs. Each one has a different dosage of Fenbendazole granules. I use the one for small dogs, which has 222mg of Fenbendazole per gram of the de-wormer (1 packet = 1 gram). My experience and research suggests that you want 100g of Fenbendazole per 10gallons of water. So I have to split my packet in half. depending on what your de-wormer concentration is, you'll have to do some maths.

Corys and Shrimp are going to be competing for the same food. Also Corys can and will eat baby shrimp (if you have any). I have done this Cory (bronze) & Shrimp (blue dream) combo in a 20L and eventually, over time, there ended up being no more shrimp. I'm sure you could do it, but feel like you might end up messing the balance you have going at the moment.

I'm convinced this is fish lice now that you said it has eyes and a head. Is it big enough that you could physically pull it off the fish? that might be the best option at this point, since you have very limited access to meds.

I don't know about running them together. I have never run them together, but paracleanse and general cure both have the same active ingredient that's in Prazipro, so you should be fine. but If I remember ICH-X is recommended to be dosed every day, and that you should do some water change (25%?) before dosing again. If you haven't dosed ICH-X since Tuesday, I'd change some water and just dose the Prazipro just to be safe.

Have you checked the water parameters? What is the Temp, pH, ammonia, etc etc? This might be a water quality issue.

ICH-X can treat fungal stuff as well if you have access to that.

Planaria won't attach itself to a fish like this in my experience. Anchor worms or some other similar parasite is my guess. Yes Paracleanse is similar to General Cure, but I think you'll need something like Prazipro for anchor worms.

lets see if that works

I just have a hard plumbed utiltiy sink next to my fish room, and have a python adapter thingy for the faucet. I just manually set the temp with a glass thermometer. Also have a RODI system hooked up here.

yeah. If you are honestly turning this into a fish room, I seriously think about having someone hard plumb a utility sink right next to that washer/dryer. It will save you a bunch of headaches, and isn't really that expensive, but if that's not really an option, I would go with the splitters into a utility sink and maybe a bucket/pump to pump it back out that drain.

Well, you have hot and cold hookups right there at the washer, but that involves some plumbing, if you're not into having it hard plumbed, you could get garden hose splitters and hook them up below the red valves. One side of each going to the washer, other side going to however you wanna do that, but you'll need to mix the water manually that way. you could also plumb a utility sink that way, but you'd have to get the water back up to that drain. other than that, you can run a hose from the floor above.

From the looks of this, it looks like all you plumbing is roughed in , it would be fairly easy to get a plumber to add a utility sink, or if you or someone you know is handy, it'd be a weekend project 🙂

The white pipe behind that 2x4 has the black drain pipe from your washer going into it correct? that is a proper drain, i'd drain all your water there... there is probably an opening at the top to put that black pipe into, you should have room to stick another tube/pipe in there.

If he has an actual plumbed drain that his washer is hooked up to, that is by far the better option. The only thing using the sump will do is wear the pump out faster. If there is no need to use it, why use it.

hang on, you have a washer and dryer in the basement? There is a drain that the washer is hooked up to, you can just tap into that.

I'm assuming your basement is 100% below grade (underground) and has no plumbing accessible down there. If thats the case, options are going to be limited. You might be able to get an extra long hose and use a python system, to suck the water up to the first floor, not sure how well that will work, other options are something like using buckets or a large trash can and maybe get a pump to empty it up to the first floor, that pump is going to need to handle whatever height (head pressure) it needs to pump too. from basement to first floor is probably a good 10' to 15' height. Other options might be using a basement window to drain (less head pressure). Does this unfinished basement have any hookups for water, maybe talk with a plumber and see how much it would be to add a hot/cold water line and a drain down there?

I would add the de-chlorinator to the tank before/while filling. This is the exact reason I installed a whole house (w/carbon block) filter before the python. was even thinking of adding a second carbon block at the utility sink that I hook the python up at.

I have extremely hard water where I'm at, around 450- 500ppm and ph 8.2 to 8.4 from the tap. I have only seen columnaris in my fish room once or twice in the 18 years i've lived here. It came from new fish, and I had no real hard time treating/medicating it. Salt will definitely help, but if I remember correctly, raising the temps is actually a bad thing with Columnaris, I think ideal is 75, but sometimes that's not achievable depending on the tank/setup. It just replicates faster when it gets warmer.

Could be fish lice!?! That is nuts. I have never seen that before but definitely get some medicine for that. Looking on google there are Anchor Worm and Fish Lice meds available., not sure what's available in BC tho 😞

Picture would help, also any info about the tank its in, and water parameters can't hurt

depends on how old that carbon is really. If its been in the tank awhile it's probably already 'full' of stuff it can bond with. If its pretty new/fresh, It probably absorbed a lot of those meds. Either way, you'll always be left with the doubt in your mind, I would probably change water/ remove the carbon, and in a few days, re-dose the tank.

they being out competed for food? Sunken bellies on all of them could mean internal parasites or they were just starving.

This is usually the best option in my opinion

Columnaris is easily confused for other fungal things which malachite green could help with. I would say that it couldn't hurt to use the malachite green and might actually help. here's an interesting article on Columnaris Identify and Treat Columnaris (Saddle Back Disease) (fishlab.com)