RE: NANFA--damaged fish

Chip Rinehart (crin_at_glassmaster.com)
Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:33:16 -0400

Try using sea salt. That's about the only medication I ever use.

Chip

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> From: BR0630_at_aol.com [SMTP:BR0630 at aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:50 AM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: Re: NANFA--damaged fish
>
> I have a pair of dollar sunfish I collected from my recent trip to
> Arkansas
> that I've been medicating with tetracyclene generously sent to me by Mark
> Binkley at Jonah's Aquarium. One fish has one open sore at the front part
> of its
> dorsal fin, the other has a pair of open sores along the top half of its
> body.
> Anyhow, I have been treating them with tetracyclene every other day for
> over
> a week now and the good news is that they're still alive. But the bad
> news is
> that neither appears any closer to healing. Any suggestions? If they
> were
> pumpkinseeds, I'd dip them in salt water as that's worked for me in the
> past.
> But I just don't think dollars are as hardy in that way.
>
> Bruce Scott
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