Re: NANFA-- fish parasites

Bob Bock (bockhouse_at_earthlink.net)
Mon, 11 Nov 2002 11:57:42 -0500

Martin, could you e-mail it to me until then?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Irate Mormon" <archimed_at_netdoor.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- fish parasites

> Check out my column in this issue of American Currents! Of course,
they'll all be dead by then!
>
> On 10 Nov 2002 at 19:56, Bob Bock wrote:
>
> > Well, they're young fish, probably stressed out by a cross country
> > ride in a mail truck. I'm also toying with the idea of cold treatment
> > (putting them outside) and/or putting some oak leaves in with them.
> > I've seen cold treatment clear up infections for a time. I've also
> > heard that tannins in leaves also have antibiotic properties.
> >
> > Thanks, Bruce.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bruce Stallsmith" <fundulus_at_hotmail.com>
> > To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 7:23 PM
> > 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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> Prost,
>
> Martin
> Jackson, MS
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> Life's a fish and then you fry.

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