Advice on my new Cat

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I thought MB was only useful for fungus?
This whole thread is very informative for me, I love it.

It's good that wes thinks it's okay, hopefully it is just adjustment to the new tank. I get the worry when I add new fish, like when my African Knives had a beatdown for the first hour or 2. I couldn't sleep and watched them with a torch wondering if I should separate them
 
It can treat a few things. But more of a first line preventative treatment. Mainly as a dip.

Can treat bacterial, fungal, protozoan infections, wound healing, ammonia/nitrite poisoning. But overt infections will need other meds. Relatively safe to use with a range of fish.

I always pretreat any new fish with MB dip and some salt before going to my main tank.
 
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How does your dip work and what effect does it have?

I have read about the use of a salt dip to help bichirs flush out parasites. And plan to do this if I can
Wailua Boy said:
I notice quite a few wholesalers ship their fish with MB added.
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I have heard of that as well
 
Let's not derail this thread anymore. I'm guilty of that. Let's enjoy this beautiful cat and see it recover completely.

By the way Hendre Hendre ur thinking of epsom salt for polys. In this case I'm talking about is similar to regular table salt. There's a difference.
 
A full strength saltwater dip?

I will wait and see what happens with this awesome cat :)
 
kno4te said:
Let's not derail this thread anymore. I'm guilty of that. Let's enjoy this beautiful cat and see it recover completely.

By the way Hendre Hendre ur thinking of epsom salt for polys. In this case I'm talking about is similar to regular table salt. There's a difference.
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No worries it's not too far a derail since we are generally talking about possibly treating a new fish. And I don't mind anyway since it's informative and pertinent to fishkeeping. Derails only really get annoying when it becomes a personal convo. between people and it ranges all over the place IMO.

Hendre said:
A full strength saltwater dip?

I will wait and see what happens with this awesome cat :)
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No, kno4te is saying there's more then one kind of salt. There's table salt, aquarium salt and epsom salt. Both table and aquarium salt used for freshwater medicinal purposes are both NaCl. There is some differences between the two though. For instance table salt contains iodine which is a anti caking agent while salt water you buy for medicinal purposes at a LFS for treating freshwater fish has none. As far as I know it makes little to no difference when dealing with freshwater which one you use.

Salt used for Saltwater or Brackish setups are a completely different story and table salt can't be substituted for what you'd have to buy at an LFS. It's composed of many different salts and has trace elements. As far as I know the usual mix includes
NaCl Sodium chloride, MgCl2 Magnesium chloride, Na2SO4 Sodium sulphate,
CaCl2 Calcium chloride, KCl Potassium chloride, NaHCO3 Sodium bicarbonate, KBr Potassium bromide, H3BO3 Boric acid, SrCl2 Strontium chloride and NaF Sodium fluoride.

Then there's Epsom Salt MGSO4 Magnesium Sulfate. Which can be bought at many stores and people use them in baths to relax muscles and can be used as a laxative. It's also helpful in the aquarium for treating constipation as well as internal parasites in fish. If there's any other uses in the aquarium they're unknown to me.

As for the Nodosus, his color has darkened but he's still acting funny IMO. But Wes did send me some videos of other Nodosus he's sold to over seas that at least swam in the same way; Gulper like. It's the hovering at the top and not doing much else that still worries me. Still I'm trying to be hopeful as Wes said that's what they do when scared so I guess he just needs more time to settle. I'll try to take more pics later.
 
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I have heard of the different salts. For polypterus dips they use normal NaCl at 1.016 SP (I think) for 10-15 minutes before QT and acclimation.

I do enjoy this treatment stuff.

Fish do take time to settle, wild caught probably longer. It took a few days for my African Butterfly to regain all his colour and eat well before he was butchered in the tank :(
 
kno4te said:
... I always pretreat any new fish with MB dip and some salt before going to my main tank.
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Where could I read how you do it? In sequence or not. Dosages. Times. Etc. Can Methylene Blue dye be substituted by Malachite Green dye? They are very similar chemically and appear usually to be used interchangeably.
 
It's just the directions. 1tsp per 5 gallons of MB. Use salt 3tsp per 1 g. Gotta be careful on scaleless fish. Dip for a few minutes. Some have argued 10 sec is enough for MB but others say longer.

Malachite green works too but the spectrum coverage is low. Not as safe as MB.

Here's a decent website posted in the poly section which helps. There are other meds too. http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/AquariumMedication3.html#methylene_blue

This is more preventative. Example, got a full blown out fungus infectionthen i won't be advising MB.
 
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