I'm curious which meds you all rely on, or keep on hand? Obviously the best is prevention with good water quality and nutrition, but what in your opinions are the best meds for when you do have to use them?
What is broad spectrum antibiotic and anti fungal for fin rot, white fuzzies, eye infections, etc.? And the most effective antiparasitic you keep to hand, especially for SA cichlids, and loaches who tend to get "skinny disease"?
The main disease I have dealt with has been ich, which I just treat with salt and/or heat, but sometimes this isn't enough for other ailments.
I have yet to save a fish that appeared to have "skinny disease". Nothing I've tried so far has been successful.
If you have large tanks, and/or valuable fish, then quarantining is important because it is so much easier to treat in the confinement of it. But even if you quarentine things can go wrong...
I just lost five fish (a nice oranda goldfish and a dojo loach + some varitus platys) that I just transfered from a quarentine tub (tank sprung a leak!) to my 75g goldfish tank. They got sick and died in less than a day, despite that they were fine for a couple weeks in quarantine until I transferred them. The remaining two goldfish and platys are hanging on but sick. The symptoms are clamped fins that are a bit whiteish, and the oranda has a couple spots in it's wen that look like small whiteheads. Just picked up some antibiotics after work and I am hoping they help, but I wished I had some on hand this morning, because maybe it would have saved my other guys.
So what meds do you swear by for the time that good prevention just doesn't cut it?
What is broad spectrum antibiotic and anti fungal for fin rot, white fuzzies, eye infections, etc.? And the most effective antiparasitic you keep to hand, especially for SA cichlids, and loaches who tend to get "skinny disease"?
The main disease I have dealt with has been ich, which I just treat with salt and/or heat, but sometimes this isn't enough for other ailments.
I have yet to save a fish that appeared to have "skinny disease". Nothing I've tried so far has been successful.
If you have large tanks, and/or valuable fish, then quarantining is important because it is so much easier to treat in the confinement of it. But even if you quarentine things can go wrong...
I just lost five fish (a nice oranda goldfish and a dojo loach + some varitus platys) that I just transfered from a quarentine tub (tank sprung a leak!) to my 75g goldfish tank. They got sick and died in less than a day, despite that they were fine for a couple weeks in quarantine until I transferred them. The remaining two goldfish and platys are hanging on but sick. The symptoms are clamped fins that are a bit whiteish, and the oranda has a couple spots in it's wen that look like small whiteheads. Just picked up some antibiotics after work and I am hoping they help, but I wished I had some on hand this morning, because maybe it would have saved my other guys.
So what meds do you swear by for the time that good prevention just doesn't cut it?