Another Venustus Thread
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Not trying to make you nervous, but I lost a potters angel for absolutely no discernable reason at all. Completely quarantined, eating everything, healthy as an ox...dead one day out of no where.
Did you say it is white and stringy, or just stringy.
Just a thought, Ive been feeding frozen food, mixed with Seachem's Focus and Metro, to my multifasciatus and venustus.
I dont see the harm in giving it a shot, if there's any doubt whatsoever. A healthy "movement" is never stringy, in any fish IMO.
GL!
Matt- Glad to hear you're success with Cupramine. Please keep us updated on anything you notice. I took a different route, Prazi, ParaGuard, and Metro/Focus in food. So far so good. GL, as well!
Thanks!
I dont see the harm in giving it a shot, if there's any doubt whatsoever. A healthy "movement" is never stringy, in any fish IMO.
GL!
Matt- Glad to hear you're success with Cupramine. Please keep us updated on anything you notice. I took a different route, Prazi, ParaGuard, and Metro/Focus in food. So far so good. GL, as well!
Thanks!
Thanks Gris, I only plan to do one two week treatment as they've never shown signs of ich before. I will be doing three Prazi treatments though.
Good to know a of the metro/focus product, metro makes me nervous for some reason. I'll have to lol I to that.
The Focus and Metro are the same ol' Seachem products, nothing new. The powder in a small "vial" type jar with a blue label and orange topper.
I dont know if youre familiar with those Seachem products, so forgive me if Im just repeating info you already know. Focus comes as a powder, which when mixed with well-rinsed frozen brine/mysis/Mega-Marine/etc becomes a gelatin-binder that not only helps to keep the powdered medication of choice (ie Metro, Kanaplex, Sulfathiazole) from being lost into the water column, but also has antibiotic properties of its own.
IIRC, you use a 5:1 ratio of Focus-to-Meds when mixing the food up. So you end up using a lot of Focus. Ive been feeding frozen this way, with Focus and Metro/Kanaplex or whatever, to treat internal infections or infestations.
My Venusta lost a lot of weight, from hiding and only grazing, while acclimating to the display. To be safe and to make sure that it wasn't an internal parasite or worm contributing to the weight loss too, I added this regimen and hes been putting weight back on everyday!
I posted up a video over in my thread, if you'd like to check it out!
I dont know if youre familiar with those Seachem products, so forgive me if Im just repeating info you already know. Focus comes as a powder, which when mixed with well-rinsed frozen brine/mysis/Mega-Marine/etc becomes a gelatin-binder that not only helps to keep the powdered medication of choice (ie Metro, Kanaplex, Sulfathiazole) from being lost into the water column, but also has antibiotic properties of its own.
IIRC, you use a 5:1 ratio of Focus-to-Meds when mixing the food up. So you end up using a lot of Focus. Ive been feeding frozen this way, with Focus and Metro/Kanaplex or whatever, to treat internal infections or infestations.
My Venusta lost a lot of weight, from hiding and only grazing, while acclimating to the display. To be safe and to make sure that it wasn't an internal parasite or worm contributing to the weight loss too, I added this regimen and hes been putting weight back on everyday!
I posted up a video over in my thread, if you'd like to check it out!
That's a tricky question, and one I've been pondering myself.
I'm looking at the Seachem Metro "bottle" now and it reads: "To feed, blend 1 measure with about 1 tablespoon of frozen food paste." Then they tell you to use Focus to minimize loss during feeding.
However, when I make a mix of frozen cubes in RO water, I mix up maybe 6-8 cubes of various Hikari/PE/San Francisco Bay and rinse and re-rinse to get rid of all of that extra Phosphate they like to add to the food. So with 8 cubes total I generally mix in ~8-10 measures of Focus and 3-4 measures of Metro or Kanamycin.
To really use 5:1 Focus to Meds would be incredibly expensive. Previously, I didn't use Focus at all. I just let the rinsed frozen sit at least 24 hrs with however many measures of Metro.
I'm thinking of looking for a simple Jello type gelatin that might do a much better job but lack whatever antibiotic properties the Focus supposedly has as well.
I'm looking at the Seachem Metro "bottle" now and it reads: "To feed, blend 1 measure with about 1 tablespoon of frozen food paste." Then they tell you to use Focus to minimize loss during feeding.
However, when I make a mix of frozen cubes in RO water, I mix up maybe 6-8 cubes of various Hikari/PE/San Francisco Bay and rinse and re-rinse to get rid of all of that extra Phosphate they like to add to the food. So with 8 cubes total I generally mix in ~8-10 measures of Focus and 3-4 measures of Metro or Kanamycin.
To really use 5:1 Focus to Meds would be incredibly expensive. Previously, I didn't use Focus at all. I just let the rinsed frozen sit at least 24 hrs with however many measures of Metro.
I'm thinking of looking for a simple Jello type gelatin that might do a much better job but lack whatever antibiotic properties the Focus supposedly has as well.
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