NLS Hexshield Discontinued?

[Rocksor]

Ive bought tons of items from kensfish over the past 6-7 years, no issues.

I prefer to make my own medicated food using Repashy, epsom salt solution, metronidazole and Seachem focus

 

[FJB]

I too have purchased Ken's fish pellets (many types) and flakes (many types as well). Very good quality stuff, and if incorporated into rotations with other foods (frozen, Repashy, others) it is a great source at favorable prices.
I have also purchased Ken's fish metro flakes, but have not used them yet.

 

[jjohnwm]

I've had good success with using liquid medication to reconstitute freeze-dried tubifex worms, and then feeding immediately. Here in Canada, it is essentially impossible to buy fish medication over the counter, so using a puppy de-wormer this way allowed me to treat an entire tank of Camallanus-infected fish with almost no losses.

Yeah, it's a pretty ghetto solution, but the gummint has to protect us from ourselves, so we do what we can.

 

[Ruturaj]

Looks nice, I thought it was a pretty good deal at first. But to have it shipped here it would cost almost $200 cad with all the customs etc.

I already have some of the medium sized so I will wait till I run out of that before I try to get any of the larger size I suppose

I believe pet meds (medicated food) are not allowed to be sold in Canada.

 

[Ruturaj]

I've had good success with using liquid medication to reconstitute freeze-dried tubifex worms, and then feeding immediately. Here in Canada, it is essentially impossible to buy fish medication over the counter, so using a puppy de-wormer this way allowed me to treat an entire tank of Camallanus-infected fish with almost no losses.

Yeah, it's a pretty ghetto solution, but the gummint has to protect us from ourselves, so we do what we can.

Sounds like a good solution, what was the active ingredient in dewormer?

 

[Ruturaj]

Hexshield, I believe had 2 active ingredients, metro and epsom salt. You can mix some epsom salt in water, add few drops of that on food, let it soak and dry in refrigerator then feed.

 

[Matteus]

I believe pet meds (medicated food) are not allowed to be sold in Canada.

It’s food though. Not medication ?

 

[jjohnwm]

Sounds like a good solution, what was the active ingredient in dewormer?

I wanted something containing fenbendazole but couldn't find a product with it, so ended up using one with piperazine as the active ingredient. Dosage was a complete guess. I just soaked the FD tubifex in the liquid until it was saturated, then fed the fish with it. Piperazine apparently paralyzes the roundworms and they are then passed with feces. I vacuumed several times a day for several days to pick the worms up, and actually kept some for several days in a cup of water to see if they ever revived. None did. I repeated the treatment weekly for 4 weeks, and lost only one fish which was very heavily infected before I could procure the dewormer.

I was lucky, but with no other options available to me I had nothing to lose by trying and it worked out.

 

[Ruturaj]

It’s food though. Not medication ?

Gotcha, wasn't sure how Canadian government would interpret it.

 

[Snakemau25]

Not sure if discontinued but my lfs has some in all 3 pellet sizes!