Hi, 3 weeks ago ive found 11 goldfish in a black water tank in the street in a very bad condition looking very skinny.I took him into a 30 L tank for quarantine{they are about 4 cm lenght} with filter and oxygen.I was doing water changes of1/3 every 3 days and fed with a jbl novo pearl which from my exp is good for goldfish. most of the fishe started to look much better and gained wight but 3 of them stayed skinney and one f them even became more skinny. 3 days ago the very skinny one started to look much worst with behavior symptoms,like showing less interest in food and spending alot of time laying on the bottom and tilting a bit when swimming. I decided to start a treatment with furanol and metronidazole for covering a large spectrum of internal bacteria and parasites. Yesterday i also sperated the 3 fish to a diffrent tank with the same water and with one of the filters that was in the first tank. I would like to hear your opinion about waht i did so far and reccomendations for what to do next, also the metro treatment is for 48 hours, but the furanol is for 5 days, so im wondering if im changing 50% of the water today for the metro ,should i add the furanol for the water i took out? Should i add a ful dose or to dose just for the new water im adding or not to add at all? Thank you
Treating with metro and furanol
- Thread starter Savethemall
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Yes, the treatment is to dose 2 pills for 50 L and wait 5 days ,then to do water change if neede to repeat treatment
Normally the medication would be breaking down, so I definitely wouldn't redose 100%. The remaining furanol would have been at less than 100% strength by now so 1/3 water change after 3 days? I wouldn't add much if any at this point. Better to wait the 5 days so new furanol doesn't accumulate. But if you add for the new water ... I'm thinking 1/2 pill would be about right.
yes i was thinking the same, by half pill you mean to dose the new water by half of the normal dose? for example if im adding 12.5 liter so im adding 1/4 of a pill?