2004v35;5099502; said:
I'm thinking about splitting up fish, moving sensitive into one tank and insensitive into another. treating separately and nuking the spare tank that is pretty much empty now.
Ok this is pretty new to me
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I'm thinking about splitting up fish, moving sensitive into one tank and insensitive into another. treating separately and nuking the spare tank that is pretty much empty now.
Ok so unless you guys have a new diagnosis I'm going Flubenzadol and maracyn. Is mixing those safe? what about maracyn 2?
I'm just at a loss to the real end game here still. I feel that even if I can treat some of these symptoms non of these issues would hit a tank and whipe out half its residence in 48 hours with good water conditions and good filtration and healthy fish. I really want to combine the remaining fish and purge the other tanks, and treat one tank. Issue is my bichirs will eat allot of my other fish.
What is the best way to purge a tank, a bottle of vinegar in there or bleaching it and letting it dry then rinsing it out?
kamikaziechameleon;5099552; said:
Unless both medications state on the packaging that they are safe to use with the other, then I would not mix them.
kamikaziechameleon;5099614; said:
My understanding is that Maracyn only treats gram positive bacteria and maracyn II only treats gram negative bacteria -- they are safe to use together and in your case, I would most definitely use both.
kamikaziechameleon;5099625; said:
Kinda - but water test results are missing (IMO)
kamikaziechameleon;5099645; said:
Personally, I don't think I would combine the fish -- because
1. (as you previously stated) they are all showing different symptoms -- you risk exposing one with say fin rot to additional diseases, like the one that has ticks, or pop eye, etc...
2. Stress of moving fish, while in this state = bad
3. Fewer the fish, the lower the nitrate levels will be and right now, your fish need the most pristine water available to them -- I know you say your water is pristine, but no liquid test kit results.....
kamikaziechameleon;5099649; said:
In your case, I would do overkill - bleach it, rinse it, bleach it, rinse it, rinse it, vinegar it, rinse it, rinse it, rinse it, rinse it, rinse it, rinse it, etc.... I did that once with some used bio-media I picked up -- didn't want to risk introducing anything into my tank. Did I overkill it, probably. Am I 100% sure that I didn't have anything bad left on it before I started using it, yes...
Bleach and you only need to do it once. How long did you try the salt? A lot of the symptoms your fish display could have been healed by salt. Did you get a liquid test kit and test the water yet? BTW my experience with quick cure it has always messup up my biofilter pretty bad. I hope your fish pull through, if you use and more treatments keep in mind its going to messup your biofilter so be ready.
