Just a question to see if anyone's ever heard of this before my girlfriends grandad used to keep tropical fish and goldfish and i was told today that whenever one looked really ill or on the brink of death he would stick a tot of whiskey or rum in the tank and it was right as rain he kept these fish for 20+ years
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Never heard of this.
I have heard of vodka dosing. Although the amount is much less than a shot glass. (There is no "standard" size for a shot glass, so that is another issue as well.)
https://saltwater-conversion.com/pages/carbon-dosing
But this isn't a panacea to kill ich, cancer, fungus, HITH, velvet, fin rot or a myriad of other issues.
I have heard of vodka dosing. Although the amount is much less than a shot glass. (There is no "standard" size for a shot glass, so that is another issue as well.)
https://saltwater-conversion.com/pages/carbon-dosing
But this isn't a panacea to kill ich, cancer, fungus, HITH, velvet, fin rot or a myriad of other issues.
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Probability he liked a drink so it's possible he was just drunk and imagined it for 20 years Yea everything I found on alcohol involved fish euthanasia will have a read of that though cheers man
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Tell him to have another drink!
There is no such thing as alcohol helping heal anything.
He must have been so used to being so drunk every day his mind couldn't function lol.
There is no such thing as alcohol helping heal anything.
He must have been so used to being so drunk every day his mind couldn't function lol.
Hmm... Well in the olden days of before they did use hard alcohol as a sort of medicine.
I would imagine it would outright kill a fish. I usually use rubbing alcohol to euthanize after clove oil knocks em out. Although maybe if you used it on a swab to disinfect a wound it could help?
I would imagine it would outright kill a fish. I usually use rubbing alcohol to euthanize after clove oil knocks em out. Although maybe if you used it on a swab to disinfect a wound it could help?
Rubbing alcohol is poisonous, they do it on purpose to keep you from drinking it.
I know people who still think a shot of schnapps cures everything. It seems to be a common belief, so there must be something behind it. I wonder what effect it would have on the fish, and how long it would last. Our blood is oxygenated and cleaned very differently from the blood of a fish.
As ever my friends liquor is cheap and doctors are expensive. So the cheap one has to be good enough if that's what they have.