Healing open wounds

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DMD123 said:
Since its only 1/4 teaspoon for 300 gallons, I just sprinkle it lightly to the area the water is coming in at and thats it. You could dissolve it first if you wanted.
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Ok imma look for some tomorrow and try it, if its that much amount to put in the tank it will really save me alot of money:) thank D
 
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Polyaddict86 said:
clm08k clm08k have you consider buying online?
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While I would love to support local stores, when it comes to supplies like food and meds, there is no way I can afford those prices and pay the tax on top of that to boot. I shop online to be able to stay in the hobby. I would end up spending at least three times as much if I bought it all from the pet stores.

At some point, especially when you have muliple tanks or any large tank, you will need to start getting things in bulk sizes or purchase online like Polyaddict86 Polyaddict86 suggested.
 
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Polyaddict86 said:
I do twice a week water change, 20% wednesday and only scrub the glass, 50% water change on sunday and scrub and vacuum the gravel. So if your question is that your cahnging water to often then no, your doing a good job but since you only do it once a week, i recommend do a 50% to 60% water change.
When dosing prazipro i do 75% water change before putting the prazipro, i do it two days and do a 30% water change. I do prozipro once every two months just for prevention and i do it when adding a new fish especially wild caught ones. Since i dont have a QT i put the new fish in a cooler for 24hrs to 48hrs. With a doze of prazipro, and when i put them in the main tank i put prazipro in the main tank too.
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thanks. I will be doing this today at 75% water change. So do that, wait two days after adding prazipro and then do 30% water change? Too bad I don't have another poly in the tank yet, cause then I could count it as a QT treatment. maybe.

Can't even imagine how water changes would be for a 180 gal+ tank.
 
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DMD123 said:
While I would love to support local stores, when it comes to supplies like food and meds, there is no way I can afford those prices and pay the tax on top of that to boot. I shop online to be able to stay in the hobby. I would end up spending at least three times as much if I bought it all from the pet stores.

At some point, especially when you have muliple tanks or any large tank, you will need to start getting things in bulk sizes or purchase online like Polyaddict86 Polyaddict86 suggested.
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okay. That is good to know. Will definitely look into that. Don't have a lot of fish to feed right now, but once I get going with a larger tank, I'd rather save money. Have bought a couple things like refractometer and biowheels online, but probably need to go more of that route, especially for meds and food. I have never bought a fish online, still kind of hesitant with the shipping for that.
 
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clm08k said:
thanks. I will be doing this today at 75% water change. So do that, wait two days after adding prazipro and then do 30% water change? Too bad I don't have another poly in the tank yet, cause then I could count it as a QT treatment. maybe.

Can't even imagine how water changes would be for a 180 gal+ tank.
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Its easy, just need to use two phyton hose on each side so when the water drains it only takes 30min. And since my tank is in the garage the water goes straight outside.
 
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Okay. It has been about 2 weeks since his wound showed up. The past two days it has been really red and swollen. Appears to be getting worse. Water parameters are still normal. Been doing the aquarium salt and weekly ~50% water changes with the aquarium salt. Only did it my usual 1x a week because fish appeared stressed.

Should I do 2x a week or more until the wound heals? Should I add the prazipro(still haven't done that)? To me it looks more bacterial or fungal at this point. Any suggestions as to what to do? You guys are the experts and I'm here to learn and get my poly better :)

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