[Kribensis12]

I have never heard about the whole, Hex has low oxygen content thing. I will defo have to google it. I said i was young, as since im young, i take everything into aspect,and i am almost garuenteed to mess up since i dont have alot od fish disease experience. I do know what im talking about, just not with diseases. If CopperSafe dosent help, then why did it rid my molly of ich, an dmy Angelfish of Anchor Worm? I have too been calm. Would you please give me a example when i wasnt calm? I havent been all knowing, i have just heard very controdictive stuff before i joined here, so i have taken everything into aspect. As far as im concernd there is never a good reason for being mean. How was i to prevent the bad thing's that were going to happen? No one ever said, do this and you ont have any problem's.

Here is what i got off google: The eye fluke has a complex life cycle with a water snail (Lymnaea) acting as one of the intermediate hosts. Larval parasites - cercariae - are released from the snails and actively seek out fish which act as the second intermediate host and it is this invasion of cercariae which can cause such extensive damage in the fish. The snails can release millions of cercariae over a very short period of time resulting in an overwhelming invasion of the fish. The cercariae mostly penetrate through the flank of the fish, often along the lateral line and this can be seen grossly as extensive haemorrhagic lesions and, if you run your finger over the flank of the fish you can feel a rough, sandpaper-like, effect where the parasites enter the skin.

Quite frequently a farmer will see fish affected with an acute haemorrhagic syndrome and assume it is a serious bacterial infection and some outbreaks have certainly been mistaken for bacterial disease in the past. On it's migration through the tissues of the fish to it's final destination in the eye, the parasites cause severe damage and this results in the affected fish swimming abnormally (often side swimming), becoming dark, lethargic, off their food and often rapidly developing serious spinal deformities. There is a rapid escalation of fish losses due to this extensive tissue damage. The parasites move quickly through the fish to the eye and the microscopic examination of fresh eye squashes will show high levels of the fluke - in fact, if you still have good eyesight yourself, the flukes are visible to the naked eye when you squash a fish eye onto a microscope slide. Surviving fish are often in a very poor state, susceptible to secondary fungal and bacterial disease and frequently totally blind.

Now, this started happening after i add a new plant with alot of snail's on it( the plant was to add oxygen). My lfs did think this was bacterial, as i stated. The affected fish have become very dark, something i forgot to mention. I also noticed that before they die, the are swimming sideway's against the glass. This does sound like Eye Fluke's. I havent found a good site ye tthat gives a treatment! Any Help?

EDIT: The only website i can find that tell's you what to treat it with said to treat it with : Praziquantel or De-Los. Niether are availble here.