What's in your fish medication cabinet?

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I know there tons of diseases and medication out there. I was wondering what is your cabinet and what do you use each one for?

Trying to prevent waist money buying something that's not going to be used as well as preventing doubling up.
 
Best way to prevent waste is by not buying anything at all unless you need it. Most (? All) medications have a finite shelf life, so it would generally be advisable not to stock up on stuff that likely won't be used. In addition, you generally want to follow levels for copper treatments, so you have to worry about the copper test kit going bad as well.

One exception I would make for this is for diseases like brook or velvet that are rapidly fatal and need to be treated ASAP. You could make a case for having cupramine and formalin on hand.

Below are some links to read up on the diseases...
Velvet
Sk8r's quick list of diseases & treatments
Ich by Snorvich
 
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Best way to prevent waste is by not buying anything at all unless you need it. Most (? All) medications have a finite shelf life, so it would generally be advisable not to stock up on stuff that likely won't be used. In addition, you generally want to follow levels for copper treatments, so you have to worry about the copper test kit going bad as well.

One exception I would make for this is for diseases like brook or velvet that are rapidly fatal and need to be treated ASAP. You could make a case for having cupramine and formalin on hand.

Below are some links to read up on the diseases...
Velvet
Sk8r's quick list of diseases & treatments
Ich by Snorvich

I guess I should had mentioned that my tank is large angel dominant, so cupramine is a no go on that. That's a very good point about no buying medication, because they have a shelf life definitely I would want to avoid doing that, a lot of packages don't have expiry date so how can you tell how long it good for? Unfortunately for me my LFS sucks for selection in medication and some of them looks like one of these miracle shake oil remedies that claim to treat multiple issues, which someone had said it's no good. From what I see in this category in this forum there are a few items that comes recommended, but not sure where to get and instruction of using them like formalin. They look like stuff you would get from a pharmacy or vet and some are hard to come by.

Thanks for link I had in the pass viewed one of those and I am well up to date on handling ich, so to read another article or post about ich will make my eyes bleed. lol

Now what promoted me to post this is recently I had issues with my powder blue and I was unprepared it happened so fast and caught me off guard. I want to be more prepared the next time something that comes up and I have very little time to react. I'm not keen on driving around the city searching for medication and coming back empty handed. It's not my idea of being prepared. I could order online, but that would take 4-5 days and even from where I get my stuff from in Canada the selection is very limited.

Maybe one of you can look where I get my stuff from and see what I can stock on. Presently I only using fresh water dip/bath and hypo to combat parasites, Methylene blue for fungus and really nothing for bacteria there is melafix but I think I'm just wasting money on that product.

http://www.jlaquatics.com/category/36/Medications.html






Cupramine. Prozi pro. Espom salt. Myracin 2. On hand all times.

What do you used Epsom salt, prozi pro for? I hear a lot of this name "prozi pro" coming up..
 
Prozi pro for flukes and internal parasites. Pure espom salt from local drug store for pop eye.


Ive used cupramine on all my large angles including regal and flagfin. All were fine through treatment.
 
Prozi pro for flukes and internal parasites. Pure espom salt from local drug store for pop eye.


Ive used cupramine on all my large angles including regal and flagfin. All were fine through treatment.

thanks


So no problem using cupramine on large angels, did you use less than recommend dose from bottle or just followed the bottle instruction. I've heard even from seachem it was possible to use cupramine with large angels, but a lower dosage. I didn't want chance it, but may reconsider.

This is good info. exactly type of answer that is helpful. anyone else? Please feel free to show what you keep or recommend to keep on hand and why?
 
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Ya, that the range I got from seachem too.

So here are some of things I'm thinking of keeping on hand, opinion welcome on these product.

KanaPlex is a blended kanamycin based medication that safely and effectively treats several fungal, and bacterial fish diseases (dropsy, popeye, fin/tail rot, septicemica).

Because it is absorbed by fish it is useful in treating internal infections in those situations where food is refused. It does not adversely affect the filter bed and is easily removed with carbon.

Metronidazole is an effective and safe treatment for several protozoan and anaerobic bacterial diseases of fish (Cryptocaryon, Hexamita, Ichthyophthirius). It does not adversely affect the filter bed and is easily removed with carbon. There is little danger of overdosing. Usual dose is 125 mg/10 gallons.

Metronidazole is designed to treat both parasitic and bacterial infections.


Cupramine๏ฟฝ effectively eradicates ectoparasite of both freshwater and marine fish. It has all the advantages of copper sulfate and chelated copper, but not the disadvantages.

Like copper sulfate, it is fully ionic and effective at low concentrations. The cupric (Cu+2) charge is fully active. Like chelates, it is safe for fish and it is not precipitated in the filter bed. Unlike both, there is more than a 4x concentration gap between the minimal therpeutic dose and the toxic dose. Unlike copper salts, it is stable in the aquarium, and, unlike chelates, it is easily removed by chemical filtration.

Unlike other copper products, it is both highly effective and safe in freshwater as well as marine water.


Liquid PraziPro is a ready-to-use, liquid concentrate that was developed to offer the hobbyist an effective way to control unwanted parasites in their pond, freshwater or marine aquarium. Extremely safe and super effective this revolutionary product offer you rapid control yet will not negatively impact your biological filtration.

Key Benefits:

Treats Flukes
Treats Tapeworm
Treats Flatworms
Treats Turbellarians
Highly Effective
Extremely Safe
Won't Negatively Impact Biological Filtration
Can Be Used As A Preventative
Non-toxic To Commonly Kept Aquarium Animals Or Plants.

Each 4oz bottle of Prazipro will treat approximately 480 Gallons.


Methylene Blue is effective against superficial fungal infections of fishes. The drug may be used as an alternative to Malachite Green for the control of fungus when it is known that the fish to be treated are sensitive.

Methylene Blue is safe for use with fish eggs and fry for the prevention of fungal infections. As a secondary use, it is effective against some external protozoans, such as Ichthyophthirius (Ich), Chilodonella and Costia.

The properties of the drug as an oxygen transporter (it converts methemoglobin to the normal oxygen carrying component of fish blood, hemoglobin) allow it to be used in the treatment of known cyanide and nitrite poisoning of aquarium fishes.

It has been suggested that newly arrived marine fish placed in Methylene Blue can have their survival rate increased as Methylene Blue aids in the reversal of nitrite and/or cyanide poisoning.
 
One thing I can suggest is shy away from products for fungal. Fungus is extreemly rare in saltwater in my opinion. Just have a gram negative and a gram positive antibiotic along with copper on hand and prozi pro. Espom salt and myracin 2 work great on pop eye. I once thought I needed several medicines on hand and they since got expired and thrown away. Formalin 37 percent doesn't hurt either but had no shelf life once opened.
 
One thing I can suggest is shy away from products for fungal. Fungus is extreemly rare in saltwater in my opinion. Just have a gram negative and a gram positive antibiotic along with copper on hand and prozi pro. Espom salt and myracin 2 work great on pop eye. I once thought I needed several medicines on hand and they since got expired and thrown away. Formalin 37 percent doesn't hurt either but had no shelf life once opened.

Though that maybe true regarding fungus, but lately I have been dealing with fungus is it because I'm in hypo or because large angels are more acceptable to fungus so I've been told? My tank has been in hypo for 2 months.

I hate to bomb you with question, but what do you recommend for negative and a gram positive antibiotic something that is easy to use and easy to get a hold of.
 
Btw, as I understand it, the cyanide toxicity occurs with exposure. The fish die later from the injury, usually to the enteric mucosa. Methylene blue treatment days to even weeks after the exposure will have little effect.
 
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Great stuff (info.) people, keep them coming really dig learning this stuff. I have to admit this is my weakest department. I feel like a rookie with a sponge head all over again. :thumbsup:
 
Though that maybe true regarding fungus, but lately I have been dealing with fungus is it because I'm in hypo or because large angels are more acceptable to fungus so I've been told? My tank has been in hypo for 2 months.

I hate to bomb you with question, but what do you recommend for negative and a gram positive antibiotic something that is easy to use and easy to get a hold of.

Marycin for gram positive. Maryciin 2 for gram negative. Yes you probably dealing with fungus due to hypo. Is it in your display tank? I'm not a fan of hypo. If you want to veiw my tank its on youtube. Titled ultimate marine aquarium update.
 
Marycin for gram positive. Maryciin 2 for gram negative. Yes you probably dealing with fungus due to hypo. Is it in your display tank? I'm not a fan of hypo. If you want to veiw my tank its on youtube. Titled ultimate marine aquarium update.

Now before you guys start throwing criticism at me. Yes, it's in my DT I have my reasons for doing so, that's another story. Yes, I did know what I was getting myself into when I decided to nuke it and deal with ich at the same time. This why I chose hypo route plus I wasn't to sure about the how safe it was to use cupramine on large angels. No it's not a reef, it's a FOWLR no invert or corals, I did at one point had it stocked with SPS, but was long time ago.


mrsscribbled- thank you for responding to my questions and i will check out your video.
 
I once used cupramine on a fowlr. Hypo is the better og the two in that situation I removed all rock and left the sand and it was nitrite city lol.
 
I did it with LR and LS, ammonia city for me from the die off. Water parameter is stable now after a lot of WC, prime and microbacter7 in the beginning. A lot of work, but needed to be done.
 
Methylene Blue (For Freshwater Dips)
Baking Soda (Not technically a medicine but for pH buffer for dips)
Maracyn 2 (Don't over buy because it has a horrendous shelf life)
Bi-Furan (Alternative Anti Bacterial)
PraziPro (Fluke Killer/Mild De-Wormer)
Metro (Wide Ranged Internal Parasite Removal)
Cupramine (Alternative to using Hypo on non copper sensitive fish)
Rally (One of the few sources of ready for use Formaldehyde in Cali)
 

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