Camallanus Worm Treatment: Everything You Need to Know

Treating Camallanus worms in your aquarium requires specific steps to ensure your fish recover safely. Here is the process. Seeing small red worms near the vent of your fish is a stressful sign of a parasitic infection. Using Expel-P treatment is an effective way to address the issue, but it is important to understand how the medication works. Levamisole acts as a paralytic for the worms, forcing them to detach so they can be passed by the fish, rather than killing them outright. Because this is not an instant killer, reinfection is a real possibility if you are not careful. Before starting, you need to remove chemical filtration, turn off your UV sterilizer, and keep the lights off for 24 hours to maximize the effectiveness of the fish parasite medication. Subscribe for weekly tank maintenance breakdowns, and let me know in the comments if you have ever dealt with an outbreak in your own setup. Credit for images By BlueBreezeWiki - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Image Worms at vent 0:00 what are Camallanus Worms 0:54 Preping the tank 1:44 What to look for / "wasting decease" 2:53 How do you clean an Aquascape / Planted tank?