Thanks, BFM, for the input on the BR; I know you've had a lot of success with it. I wasn't concerned so much about the methylene blue or smidgen of malachite green in the Betta Revive, but moreso the drug interraction with the antibiotic, which is Neomycin.
However, both of the Jungle lab medicated foods say on the bottles, (I dug around in my fish medicine box), that they "may be used with water treatments, external antibiotic, anti-fungal, anti-parasitic water treatments", so I wouldn't worry about the Betta Revive with the medicated foods, after reading that.
I do worry a little about stopping the antibiotic food before the full treatment course, and I'm not sure yet about combining the two foods and using them together, though it seems to my memory, which is not infallable, that it is OK to do so. I'm pretty sure I remember doing those two together without problems, but I wouldn't swear to it. I want to look back through my notes to double check that.
I guess my fallable memory didn't serve me well on the garlic issue, I was thinking that it was believed that there was somewhat of an antiparasitic action in the garlic for many internal parasites, whether it's by killing them or running them out of town, so to speak, lol.
I have used the antiparasitic food before and it is really great, so I do think we may need to use that as soon as we've gone a couple of more days on the antibiotic food.
I know metronidazole, an antibiotic, is in the antiparasitic food and it may pick up where the other leaves off if we change mid-stream... I've just always preferred to go the full course once I've started a specific antibiotic, unless of course there is no improvement and things are worsening with the particular antibiotic; then I would make a change to something else.
At any rate, we are all putting our noggins together on this to do everything we can to help your little guy get well.
Please give us an update in the morning, asap. Go on poop patrol and report back on the color, character, quantity and quality of his poop; sounds sorta like grading diamonds, lol.
However, both of the Jungle lab medicated foods say on the bottles, (I dug around in my fish medicine box), that they "may be used with water treatments, external antibiotic, anti-fungal, anti-parasitic water treatments", so I wouldn't worry about the Betta Revive with the medicated foods, after reading that.
I do worry a little about stopping the antibiotic food before the full treatment course, and I'm not sure yet about combining the two foods and using them together, though it seems to my memory, which is not infallable, that it is OK to do so. I'm pretty sure I remember doing those two together without problems, but I wouldn't swear to it. I want to look back through my notes to double check that.
I guess my fallable memory didn't serve me well on the garlic issue, I was thinking that it was believed that there was somewhat of an antiparasitic action in the garlic for many internal parasites, whether it's by killing them or running them out of town, so to speak, lol.
I have used the antiparasitic food before and it is really great, so I do think we may need to use that as soon as we've gone a couple of more days on the antibiotic food.
I know metronidazole, an antibiotic, is in the antiparasitic food and it may pick up where the other leaves off if we change mid-stream... I've just always preferred to go the full course once I've started a specific antibiotic, unless of course there is no improvement and things are worsening with the particular antibiotic; then I would make a change to something else.
At any rate, we are all putting our noggins together on this to do everything we can to help your little guy get well.
Please give us an update in the morning, asap. Go on poop patrol and report back on the color, character, quantity and quality of his poop; sounds sorta like grading diamonds, lol.
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