Subj : Re: Please help!!!
To : All
From : Starfish
Date : Tue Nov 30 2004 09:56 pm
Thankyou!
The vets wont have anything to do with fish (which is a real shame)
I suppose thats what you get when you live in a town with 10000 people
(including the surrounding districts) in it in Regional Queensland......\
grrrr
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> "Starfish" <
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>>I have no antibiotics available and no vets in my region know anything
>>about fish.
>> What else can help?
>> Salt?
>
> Salt can help, but use it carefully. Too much salt will stress your fish
> and make things worse. Keep up the daily water changes too. For a goldfish
> I would use 0.5 grams of salt per liter for about a week, then stop using
> salt and keep the water changes going.
>
> If your vetrinarian is willing to help but doesn't know which medications
> to use, 10 mg per liter of erythromycin or tetracycline should do the
> trick.
>
> Other antibiotic pills / tablets can be used, but at different doses. Fish
> should be treated with antibiotics as if the aquarium was a large animal,
> horse / cow / pig etc. For example, if you have a 400 liter tank, it
> should get the same amount of antibiotic as a 400 kg horse.
>
> Or if you can't find a vetrinarian willing to prescibe antibiotics, salt
> is less effective but should help.
>
> Limnophile
>
>
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