Furan

[terror]

:( is furan a good antibiotics?
what is the correct treatment of antibiotics?
how long should i treat...
?

[wetmanNY]

Amateurs shouldn't be using antibiotics at all. Few antibiotics are effective except by injection. Dumping antibiotics into aquarium water will not be effective.

Widespread casual misuse of antibiotics has created resistant populations of pathogenic microbes.

[kveeti]

Here is a general article on antibiotics in the aquarium. I have no idea of its accuracy:
http://www.petsforum.com/cis-fishnet/afm/G29155.htm

Furan is by Aquarium Pharmaceuticals:
http://www.aquariumpharm.com/aqfish.html
I would assume the treatment is on the package.

Go to google and do a search on all the ingredients and also find other articles. Read, read, read.

[VoodooChild]

What are you trying to treat? If there are real symptoms and you feel that you have made a correct diagnosis and the ingredients in the medication have proven to be effective, there is nothing wrong with you trying it if you think it might help your fish, amateur or not.

[terror]

thanks!
i was planning to treat my arowana for internal bacteria.:)
if i'm going to treat . i'm going to treat for the whole treatment... so there won't be any resistant bacteria...
also i'm not really an amateur anymore..
been keeping fish for more than 10 years now.

:o

anybody has experience with oceanfrees anti internal bacteria and ulcer?

thanks!

[wetmanNY]

Of course, a normal healthy fish intestine is filled with a widely various community of bacteria. Most of them are anaerobic.

A successful treatment would eliminate all intestinal bacteria? Or just some?

What is the symptom that makes you think the arowana is not successfully overcoming any pathogenic bacteria?

Is this about bloating?

[terror]

Originally posted by wetmanNY
Of course, a normal healthy fish intestine is filled with a widely various community of bacteria. Most of them are anaerobic.

A successful treatment would eliminate all intestinal bacteria? Or just some?

What is the symptom that makes you think the arowana is not successfully overcoming any pathogenic bacteria?

Is this about bloating?


this arowana sudenly lost appettite.
can't see any external problems..
water parameters ok.
ph ok. noticed that he's feces was whitish...
but he's back to normal now..
haven't medicated yet.
fish a little lethargic. too.

any suggestions?
the temp is already set to 30 Deg C

thanks

[wetmanNY]

I don't mean this in any harsh way, but if your fish seems a little lethargic and isn't currently interested in eating, you can't just "perk him up" with a dose of antibiotics.

Fish that are eating "feeder" fish are dealing with a constant influx of bacteria exactly suited to life in a fishes' intestines, and possibly various minor transmittable parasites.

Piscivorous fish spend most of their days with nothing at all in their stomach. How often does your arowana get a "starve day?" One day in five?