In the year that I had the shop, I found the *need* to use
chemicals/antibiotics only a couple times (those treatments were administered
in buckets), and that was dealing with "other people's" fish on a weekly
basis.
Most of my customers also enjoyed just bringing in water and not finding it
necessary to spend more money (some were put off that there wasn't just
something they could 'buy') and would just have to do a little work, and bring
in some more water a week later to see where we were and gleefully mention
that the fish had stabalized and were making a great comeback.
Of course, that approach doesn't pay the bills, so you'll also know why I'm
sitting here avoiding writing code, acting like a fish geek instead of the
computer one I'm supposed to be right now ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Stallsmith
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 7:23 PM
To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
Subject: Re: NANFA-- fish parasites
This kind of infection (bacterial I bet) means that the fish are either old
and dying, or under environmental stress. I would do the last tetracycline
treatment, wait a few days, and then do a large, maybe 50% water change.
That ain't no guarantee, of course!
--Bruce Stallsmith
Huntsville, AL, US of A
>From: "Bob Bock" <bockhouse_at_earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
>Subject: Re: NANFA-- fish parasites
>Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 15:09:22 -0500
>
>Dear Dr. Scharpfenfisch:
>
>My crappies have some kind of bacterial or fungal infection that seems to
>be
>slowly eating away at their caudal fins. I have no idea what it could be,
>what with being fairly clueless and all. My best guess was to treat with
>Paragon, and to throw in some extra tetracycline that I found way in the
>back of the fish cabinet. The infection doesn't seem to be getting any
>worse, but then again doesn't seem to be getting any better.
>
>I've been treating for about six days now and I dose with the last
>tetracycline tablet tomorrow. Please tell me what to do, so I can avoid
>going out to buy more tetracycline on my day off.
>
>Signed,
>
>Troubled in Mollyville
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