Seachem ParaGuard, 500 mL / 16.9 fl. oz. - 603

I have a 17 year old goldfish and he's never been sick at all. I've always only used a top quality water conditioner and he's alone. A few weeks ago I noticed he was not himself...not eating and staying in the corner all the time with little perky swimming. I keep him in a very large, old fashioned bathtub with a big fountain for water // oxygen. I also notice a type of white stuff on him. First it was very pale white then became almost like a white salt look on him. I went into a major panic and bought this product. (along with a few other's from Amazon for treating ich and other diseases).... I moved him into a small tank with this medicine and completely cleaned out his pond and fountain. I added this to his fresh new pond/tub, along with water conditioner called Stress Coat (which I've used for all these years with no problems at all)......I have a soft / large net to gently pick him up to move him and he was so quiet. He's usually a perky one....I got the net here on Amazon also. He's at least 9 inches and looks 'fat' to me so I worried it could be bloating too. I put him back into his fresh tank / tub and waited a day before trying to feed to reduce anymore stress. YAY, he is eating again and swimming. He does enjoy my company though, lol.....I just love him. He's bright orange and I don't see any signs of disease again, yet. I did notice at times now he'll spit out his fish food and go for tiny pieces of flake food on the bottom. That worries me a little bit so I've ordered new food for him too. I was very pleased with this product. Seemed safe and complete. It seems to have saved him and I am so grateful. I wish I knew what he'd enjoy eating so I can keep him happy and healthy. I hope he'll be around for a long time. THANK YOU for this product. I used the Aquarium salt too but I think using this product primarily, did the trick as did cleaning out his tank // tub area completely too. It arrived on time. Amazon has saved my day more than once!! Any suggestions would be welcome to keep my fish glowing and going. Do I use it during EACH CHANGE? TIA~ ..............UPDATE:::: 12/18/2013 - Ohh no - My fish has that stuff on him again and he's not acting right. I bought him blood worms and new fish food of pellets (I have always only fed flake food) and he won't eat any of it now. He's not his perky self. He knows when I come in and swims over to me...is breaking my heart. I took pics of him but not sure if anyone can view them that knows goldfish. He seems 'off'....and a tiny // slight tilt. He does not fight me when I reach down to pass my hand over his side to remove those white thingys (like salt)). I don't like touching him as I may injure him more. IS THERE ANYONE TO ASSIST ME IN HERE? He has never been sick 1 single day in his life until we had to move to this horrid place. : (( - Should I attempt to move him outside as I have a big pond thingy out there for him but worry about wild animals then. I also bought Pimafix from Amazon but not sure if I can add it to his water too. It treats fungal infections. I just don't know the answer and don't want to make things more toxic. Thank you. >>>>>>>>>>>>>UPDATE Dec. 28, 2013 - ALL IS GOOD : ))) Ich is gone again and I keep re treating. This is a great product // Thank you and Elvee thanks you. You MUST re treat as this disease has cycles per my Marine Vet. ********UPDATE January 9, 2014 - This did NOT cure the Ich - per my mobile fish vet today she told me to buy this from Amazon, which I did:::: Mardel Quick-Cure Aquarium Treatment, 4-Ounce ..............I did not know they "sedate" a goldfish to examine them.... I could not watch.. my vet is great and I purchased the new Ich medicine above, more oxygen piping, etc. My fish vet sedates my Elvee, in a separate bucket and it is Ich. Also my water was not right so I had to buy a API water test kit here on Amazon. You can never oxygenate too much. She said my Elvee is happy and spoiled tho... : )).......

This product works well. Helps clear up any issues such as Ick, etc.. in your aquarium. I would definitely recommend this product for purchase

Seacham has fantastic products and I do my best to stay with all the same company products for my tank❣️

I used Seachem Paraguard to treat scutariella on yellow shrimp in my 10 gallon. I know that this product has not been tested (per Seachem website) with invertebrates but I had tremendous success! Background on the tank: 10 gallon, inhabited for six months, 12 espei rasbora, 7 asian moth catfish, 1 ghost shrimp, 5 amano shrimp and 25-30 yellow neocaridina shrimp of various ages and stages (juveniles, adults, berried females and some teensy newborns). I removed the carbon from the filter and dosed everyday for two weeks. Water changes stayed current (1-2 x per week of 15-20%). Not all of the yellow shrimp had scutariella, I counted roughly 6 but those six visibly had signs on their rostrums and heads. Within the first couple of days of treatment, I saw immediate improvement. After a week, I only had three shrimps that showed scutariella and I pulled those out and did a salt dip (1 tb. salt to 1 c. tank water - soak for 30-60 seconds, the parasite falls off immediately). I continued to medicate the tank for a few more days to ensure that I did not see anymore signs of illness. The combination of Paraguard and salt dips worked wonderfully! I have a heavily planted tank and it would be difficult to use the salt dip for everyone. I did not lose any shrimp or fish and I see many juveniles and newborns) and nobody showed any signs of stress. I have over half of a bottle left which I will keep on hand for other issues that may arise. A wonderful product! It is a blue/green color but does not turn the tank water any colors and is quickly dispersed. Also, if you are treating shrimp for scutellaria, be sure to remove molts as the parasite stays in the molt. The medication is only active for 24 hours, so I suggest doing water changes before adding medication to ensure that it remains in the water for therapeutic purposes. I kept an easy routine of dosing in the morning, on water change days I changed the water and then added medication.

WARNING: IT WILL KILL YOUR NITRIFYING BACTERIA BED. Product advertises that it will not negatively affect your bacteria bed. At first, it doesn't seem to. Yet in 3 out of 5 cycled tanks I used it on, my bacteria bed suddenly seemed to die off. My husband and I maintain about 14 fishtanks. Many of them were newer but they had been cycles for weeks and I considered one of them somewhat established. In two of our quarantine tanks and a 48 gallon show tank, I decided to treat for fill flukes because in one tank, it seemed I had a nasty case break out. I had been so impressed with stress guard recently, I decided to try Paraguard to treat both flukes and any other parasites on our new goldies. One tank received treatment for 7-8 days before we left on a weekend trip to see our niece graduate. The others had 1-4 treatments. The day after I returned I noticed that some of my fish looked badly stressed. All of them had horrible levels of ammonia and one also had toxic nitrite levels. This resulted into being up to midnight two nights in a row doing water changes and shuffling fish around. It was two nights in a row because I did not realize one tank was having problems until I saw my Tosakin gasping for breath and looking VERY unhappy in his well established coffee top table show tank. That said, I know I had several fish that had symptoms of gill flukes. This medication seems to have eradicated the infection in them. I used baths initially, and I highly suggest bathing all incoming fish in a mixture of this as directed before putting them in primary tanks. I give it 4 stars because it works really really well. I have to take off a star because of the headache of a product that says it will not harm the bacteria bed, though is absolutely does so.

Iam partial to seachem. Works very well without any collateral damage.

Excelente

One week ago today I noticed ich on my yellow tangs. I was absolutely devastated. I immediately began to scour the Internet for every possible cure for ich known to man. I happened to come across ParaGuard. I could not find a negative review anywhere online for this product, in fact all of the saltwater forums that I belong to sang the praises of ParaGuard. I now know why. The product came well packaged. The bottle was clearly labeled and the instructions were easy to follow. The formula it's self is blue in color and has a slight garlic smell. After removing my carbon fiter, I cautiously dosed my tank following the instructions carefully. ParaGard disbursed quickly into the water and did not discolor any of the coral rock ornaments in my tank. I watched my fish very closely for any signs of distress and noted none. I went to bed prepared for the worst and prayed for the best. The following morning all of my fish were alive and seemed very happy. I carefully inspected each of my tanks and could only find one or two specs of ich! The day before one tang was covered in the tell tale salt crystal appearing parasites and 8 hours later- barely any. I am now on day three of dosing my tank. I can see no visible ich parasites on any of my fish. I know from prior reading of other Amazon reviewers that I must complete the full 28 day dosing cycle for a saltwater tank so that I have safely covered all lifecycles of what ich is my tank. I have now set up an isolation tank and will ParaGuard all new livestock before adding to my display tank. Thank you ParaGuard for saving my tangs!

Amazing medicine to always have on hand for sick fish

Works as advertised; it eradicated the ich infestation, although perhaps not as quickly as some of the stronger medications. It also did not kill my nerite and assasin snails, although a couple of the nerites do show some shell damage. It also did not stain the silicone in my very expensive ADA aquariums. All in all, I will continue to use ParaGuard if and when necessary.

Great product!!

Good product. One of the few products that can be safely used on invertebrates. I used this product for a whole month by dosing my tank daily. I lost just one Cardinal Tetra and a little harm to my aquatic plants. But all good. Would go for it again.

Perfect! My betta has gotten fin rot and just over a week of dosing this daily he was cured. His fins are now regrowing as I use stressgaurd to help with healing and to help during medicine dosing. Worked great!