Re: Skinny Notho females

[Barry Cooper <bjc3 at cornell_edu>]

A word about dosage of flubendazole:

I recommend (and use myself) 10 mg per gallon. That is based on some 
experimental studies in which fenbendazole and other members of this group 
were used to treat sticklebacks with Glugea. In that study various doses, 
as I remember from 1-10 micrograms per liter, were used. 2 micrograms per 
liter was as effective as the higher doses, so that is what I chose. 2 
mcg/L is about the same as 10 mg/gallon.

It may well be that other organisms respond to lower (or perhaps need 
higher) doses, but I think 10 mg/gal is a good choice.

Barry

At 08:10 AM 7/27/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Robert,
>Where did you find that dosage? I used a small amount, about 1/8th teaspoon
>flubendazole 5%, diluted first in a cup of same tank water to
>kill hydra in a ten gallon tank. That tank also happened to be housing a
>female N. guentheri with wasting disease. In less than eight hours, the
>hydra were all gone and in about the same amount of time, the notho began
>eating again. I am only assuming it was the flubendazole, but something got
>her up and running after at least a week of listlessness and failure to eat.
>Patrick
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>Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 12:10 AM
>Subject: Skinny Notho females
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>
> > Hi All,
> >
> >         Is the flubendazole 5% dose for "wasting" disease the same as I
>use
> > for hydra -- 1/2 tsp per 30 gallons?
> >
> > Robert
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