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What does a fortune catfish eat?
The fortune catfish is omnivorous and eats both meat and plants. Feed it live prey like small fish, shrimp, earthworms, mealworms, superworms and loaches, plus chicken, beef and organ meat. It can also take fish pellets - start young so it accepts them later. Because it is greedy and will eat smaller tankmates, don't mix it with small fish.
Is Advantage Multi (Advocate) really a combined internal and external parasite treatment?
Advantage Multi does treat both internal and external parasites, with imidacloprid and moxidectin covering ear mites, fleas, roundworms, hookworms and heartworm. Dose by the pet's age and weight.
How to Tell If Your Cat’s Deworming Worked
If a cat already had worms, check a week later: no eggs or live worms in the stool means internal parasites are cleared, and parting the coat should show no fleas, lice, or ticks. Mites need a skin scrape and healing check. If signs remain, use a correctly matched product and repeat in 10-15 days.
Do cats get morning sickness (pregnancy vomiting)?
Usually no, but a few cats vomit early in pregnancy (~2 weeks after mating), briefly (under 2 days). Frequent vomiting in a pregnant cat may be hairballs, gastritis, or worms — see a vet to protect the kittens.
How Can You Tell If a Cat Has Eye Worm (Thelazia)?
An infected cat develops red, inflamed eyelids and eyeballs with itching, so it rubs its eyes and face often and produces more tears and discharge. These are the main signs, but confirming infection requires a vet exam—the worms are tiny and hard to see by eye.
What happens if you don’t deworm a cat?
Without deworming, cats can pick up heavy internal and external parasite loads. Internal worms steal nutrients and damage the gut, causing diarrhea, vomiting, and even anemia, while external parasites cause itching, hair loss, and skin disease.
What Dewormer Works Best for Tapeworms in Dogs?
Dog tapeworms cause diarrhea, soft stools, weight loss, and visible white segments. Effective drugs include praziquantel, niclosamide, albendazole, fenbendazole, and pyrantel. Pick by the tapeworm species and your vet's advice, support the gut with probiotics, and keep up preventive deworming and kennel hygiene.
How to Deworm Your Cat Properly
Internal dewormers come as granules or tablets — place a tablet at the back of the tongue and close the mouth, or mix powder into food. External spot-ons are dripped onto the skin at the back of the neck. Dose strictly by weight and follow a schedule based on your cat's age.
What do plecostomus (suckermouth catfish) eat?
Plecos are omnivorous, eating algae, fish waste, eggs, fry, plankton and commercial food. Hardy but invasive, so never release them into the wild.
Why does my cat keep vomiting?
Frequent vomiting can come from hairballs, gastroenteritis, intestinal blockage, pancreatitis, feline distemper or parasites. Hair in vomit suggests hairballs; worms need deworming. Vomiting food, yellow fluid or foam with poor appetite needs a vet.