Antibacterial
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Dmorty217
Saltwater Addict
Could also be velvet. Copper will only mask/ keep fish alive if they have it since the effective dose of copper for velvet is twice the lethal limit for fish.
LobsterOfJustice
Recovering Detritophobe
Tagging on to this question as I had a similar question to the OP...
I have a cleaner wrasse with a cloudy eye that I am trying to treat. I am also treating while in TTM. I had him in BiFuran+ for the first three days, but he took it real hard - layed at the bottom and didnt eat the whole time - so I switched to Nitrofuracin Green at the second transfer. He is acting much better with the NFG but I am not seeing improvement in the eye. I'm going to try formalin dipping him between transfers this weekend.
A question about using antibiotics during TTM - both the antibiotics I have used call for re-doses every 24h. I assumed this is because the active ingredient is only stable for about 24 hours and you are re-dosing to maintain theraputic dose. However, when I transferred the wrasse and I had a tank that had been dosed three days in a row (with partial water changes performed before each dose) next to one with a single dose, the tank that had been dosed three times was noticeably more green. Now I'm wondering, is there a cumulative effect to the repeated doses that gets interrupted by transferring the fish to a new tank (i.e. 100% water change, vs the partial water change before redosing that is recommended)?
I have a cleaner wrasse with a cloudy eye that I am trying to treat. I am also treating while in TTM. I had him in BiFuran+ for the first three days, but he took it real hard - layed at the bottom and didnt eat the whole time - so I switched to Nitrofuracin Green at the second transfer. He is acting much better with the NFG but I am not seeing improvement in the eye. I'm going to try formalin dipping him between transfers this weekend.
A question about using antibiotics during TTM - both the antibiotics I have used call for re-doses every 24h. I assumed this is because the active ingredient is only stable for about 24 hours and you are re-dosing to maintain theraputic dose. However, when I transferred the wrasse and I had a tank that had been dosed three days in a row (with partial water changes performed before each dose) next to one with a single dose, the tank that had been dosed three times was noticeably more green. Now I'm wondering, is there a cumulative effect to the repeated doses that gets interrupted by transferring the fish to a new tank (i.e. 100% water change, vs the partial water change before redosing that is recommended)?
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