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1geo
This is for Jay:
I am sure you have a significant background in fish diseases and medications. You represent less then 1% of the marine aquarium hobbyists in this country. Most of the hobbyists are just like hllywd, When something happens they cry for help. The diagnostic charts, and FishVet is only one of them, put the problem in a format most of us can understand. If hllywd had followed the chart and treated his fish with any of these meds, Acriflavine-MS, Aqua Pro-Cure, Marine-Aid, Metro-MS, Fura-MS, Sulfa-MS or Revive his fish may still be alive or it may have died any way (which it did) We will never know because none of these treatments were applied and you or no one else can say they would not have been affective. My point is, I do not own a microscope nor does the average hobbyist. The charts, for all their faults, are valuable tools for me and I am sure for many others who do not have your expertise on this subject. For me, it is far better to do something rather then sit around and debate the subject until I have a dead fish on my hands.
I am sure you have a significant background in fish diseases and medications. You represent less then 1% of the marine aquarium hobbyists in this country. Most of the hobbyists are just like hllywd, When something happens they cry for help. The diagnostic charts, and FishVet is only one of them, put the problem in a format most of us can understand. If hllywd had followed the chart and treated his fish with any of these meds, Acriflavine-MS, Aqua Pro-Cure, Marine-Aid, Metro-MS, Fura-MS, Sulfa-MS or Revive his fish may still be alive or it may have died any way (which it did) We will never know because none of these treatments were applied and you or no one else can say they would not have been affective. My point is, I do not own a microscope nor does the average hobbyist. The charts, for all their faults, are valuable tools for me and I am sure for many others who do not have your expertise on this subject. For me, it is far better to do something rather then sit around and debate the subject until I have a dead fish on my hands.
1geo,
Sorry, I have to disagree with you on that - you need to take a lead from medicine: Primum non nocere, first do no harm.
Treating with antibiotics instead of an anti-protozoal drug (as in my example) would be just as fatal as doing nothing. Sometimes doing nothing is what ends up needing to happen - most of the medications you mentioned have side-effects, either for the animals themselves, or on the biological filter system. I have heard many times where an aquarist treated a whole aquarium for one sick fish and ended up losing everything because they wiped out their nitrifying bacteria.
To say, "Ah, if this person had followed the chart, his fish may still be alive" is a specious arguement. I'm sorry the fish died, but a shotgun approach to medicating it would not have helped.
Jay
Sorry, I have to disagree with you on that - you need to take a lead from medicine: Primum non nocere, first do no harm.
Treating with antibiotics instead of an anti-protozoal drug (as in my example) would be just as fatal as doing nothing. Sometimes doing nothing is what ends up needing to happen - most of the medications you mentioned have side-effects, either for the animals themselves, or on the biological filter system. I have heard many times where an aquarist treated a whole aquarium for one sick fish and ended up losing everything because they wiped out their nitrifying bacteria.
To say, "Ah, if this person had followed the chart, his fish may still be alive" is a specious arguement. I'm sorry the fish died, but a shotgun approach to medicating it would not have helped.
Jay
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