Urgent help with RTC

[monsterkeeper87]

Great. I assume by "both tests" you mean nitrates in your tank and nitrates in your tap water.

So, to me, the tentative conclusion is that this might have been the case of RTC's strongly adverse reaction to myxazin (I hope you have not erred when calculating the dose).

It will be interesting to see if anyone else has pro or con data to that. Would you mind if I start a new thread with this question in the title and a link to your thread? Just would like to learn more. If you'd do it, that be even better.

I don't have much hope but one never knows unless they try...

No I mean i'v done 2 tests since I last posted but I tested the tap water as well and it was ok.

Yea I agree, the myxazin is the only thing I can of that could have caused it and no the dose was what the bottle listed ( I now know I should use less with scaleless fish )

And no I'm fine with you making a thread about this, I am interested to find out myself. I would make it but I don't know how to post links...




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[Mount_Prion]

Hate to be a speaker of doom, but that RTC looks WAAAY too big for some of his tankmates, tank size itself aside. That clown loach wouldn't even make a bump in his stomach.

 

[monsterkeeper87]

Hate to be a speaker of doom, but that RTC looks WAAAY too big for some of his tankmates, tank size itself aside. That clown loach wouldn't even make a bump in his stomach.

Yea I know, I couldn't catch them and they was big enough at the time so I left them and they have been ok this far but I am going to rehome them very soon


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[thebiggerthebetter]

Yea I agree, the myxazin is the only thing I can of that could have caused it and no the dose was what the bottle listed ( I now know I should use less with scaleless fish )...

Just a tangenial note. I cannot formulate a hard and fast rule but I think it comes from experience of medicating fishes: I've found vast majority of my cats (all cats are scaleless) do not react any worse to my usual anti-parasitic and antibiotic meds than my scaled fishes. I usually do start with a smaller dose but in the end it almost always ends up to be a full dose. And I've kept a hundred different kinds of cats and likely half of them have been subjected to some kind of medication at some point in my community tanks and ponds. This is all vague, I agree, but we are trying to generalize here....... which is often a dangerous thing to do because details often make it or break it for any particular fish in a particular tank and particular water, etc.

...I'm fine with you making a thread about this, I am interested to find out myself. I would make it but I don't know how to post links...

I just copy and paste the full URL in the web address line, is all. The site converts it into a clickable link because it recognizes it as such.