> Actually, if you haven't, I'd check the nitrate before I added any more
> chemicals to the equation (or just start changing water if you don't feel
like
> it). I find that it is perhaps the single greatest culprit of immuno
> suppression that leads to bacterial nastiness and fin corrosion (well
unless
> there is stray voltage, which is common too.. may want to check that... if
> you're interested I can provide a url about my experience and treatment of
> this).
>
> 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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