Good medicated food

[tkeracer619]

I lost an orange shoulder tang in qt last night. He was doing great until yesterday, eating a ton, playfully swimming. I have had him for several weeks.

Its a large QT and there are several expensive fish in it including a lineatus wrasse.

The Orange Shoulder had no external signs of disease so I am going to treat it as something internal. Might have just passed on but whatever it was, the fish was fat and active not long ago.

What prepared foods do you use to treat internal stuff. I want to feed the rest of the fish food that will help just in case.

I already ran the test kit through the tank and everything is perfect to RC standards.

Thank you for any feedback.

 

[lisatt]

Oh believe me there's only one answer to that......... Try the Blue Lagoon medicated fish food. That'll take care of it, it's like keeping tylenol in your house for your headache.

 

[tkeracer619]

where do you get it?

 

[lisatt]

Hi Mark, I originally got it at a local pet store but now order it from premium. Hope everything turns out okay!


Emailing: www.premiumaquatics.com

 

[Valab]

The two ingredients in that 'medicated' food are garlic and an antioxidant. I don't know if I would trust it to do anything beneficial.

 

[lisatt]

Hey Valeb,
Have you used it?
Because I've needed to use it twice, once when I started my tank about a year ago (ich) and a while ago with my new chromus (ich again) and BOOM It took care of it right away. A friend of mine had recommended it because she thought the same thing.
Just trying to help Mark out with a product I have proof on!

 

[tkeracer619]

The antioxidant used in this food is pretty important it seems in the marine environment. Lots of info can be had at http://www.astaxanthin.org/

Closer examination shows that astaxanthin is found in formula one marine pellets. It is the last ingredient on the bottle listed as a "carotenoid pigment".

This company has 2 medicated foods. One is anti parasite and one is anti fungal. All of their foods have this antioxidant and it is not the medication.

Metronidazole is the medication used in the anti-parasite food. Info about it can be found here.

Tetracycline hydrochloride is the medication used in the anti-bacterial food. Info can be found here.

I think it is safe to say both of these foods will do something. Both drugs used are Rx only.

 

[tkeracer619]

So on my search for this food I ran accross another medicated Gel manufacturer. This stuff is called GEL-TEK and I found it at petco.

They have 3 types at petco. I got the Tetracycline version.

I'm not one for magic potions but I was a bit worried. My QT is over stocked, I had just added some new fish from pet solutions and my orange shoulder tang died a few days later. He had no signs of disease. So I blame bacteria.

Well yesterday all but one of the fish were not eating like they normally do. This is what happened to my orange shoulder the day before it died.

I laced some mysis shrimp with the gel tek. Almost completely ignoring the directions. Well this morning. My fish were begging for food. It is too early to say that this product did anything. But the cotton ball looking stuff that I had pointed twards the lympho (sp) is already looking like it is going into remmision.

I will keep you informed.

 

[tkeracer619]

Ok, so the only fish yesterday that did not eat the shrimp died today. Probably over night and I didn't recognise it this morning.

re checked the params and still all perfect.

So I go to do a 10 gallon water change. There are little white specs on the bottom of the qt tank. Only thing I can think where they would come from is the fishes gills. I vacuumed them out.