clout medicine

[mandy21]

what a (bleeping bleep)!!! I'm never talking to that moron again! he tried to blame the deaths on the fact that i have bad water quality and bad fish.

Of course. people at LFS that don't really know what they are talking about will find anything else to blame. I'd go in and ask the question again, then talk to a manager and point out on the box where it is not safe to be used with inverts/reefs. I'd then ask for a refund.

Take it as a learning experience. It sucks, but it is one reason why I don't trust what other people tell me without finding research to back it up.

 

[mcsassy]

i didn't purchase the medicine...he just gave me some pills and told me how many to put in.

 

[Lupin]

i didn't purchase the medicine...he just gave me some pills and told me how many to put in.

I'd still try to complain about it, mcsassy. Regardless, they were your shrimps and you spent your hard-earned cash and then losing them to some lousy advice. If he was not convinced, do what I posted earlier about the experiment.

 

[clown-lover]

mcsassy I would pick yourself up a PolyFilter. Your gonna want to do something like this to ensure that it pulls it all out of your system and hopefully it won't settle into your live rock. PolyFilters are a miracle in that they just don't pull out medicine types of contaminants they pull out ammonia, phosphate and all kinds of good things. I keep several around in case my system needs a good water scrubbing.

 

[mcsassy]

A poly filter? I have seen one of those before...it just looks like a regular old filter pad but it was 50 dollars!!! What is the technology behind it? It was just in some regular bag with very minimum writing on it...just said poly filter pad.

 

[clown-lover]

50 bucks is awefully high. Even at my high prices where I live I only pay 8.99 for the small one (4" x 8"). I am not sure as to the actual technology as it is patented at this point and time. But there is a coating on one side of the pad and honestly in an emergency I wouldn't be with out them. I originally used them instead of carbon in a canister filter but it got to be a little costly. But for a situation like this I'd use it in a heart beat.

If your local market is charging that much I'd order from Foster and Smith..

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=4335&Nty=1&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Ntk=All&pc=1&N=0&Ntt=poly%20filter&Np=1

 

[Catpicklesdog]

I'd also recommend a polyfilter. My LFS had to use them when someone chucked a load of copper in his fish system!!! Thank goodness it wasn't his coral tank as it killed enough fish. The filter went bright blue!!!

 

[mcsassy]

I think my skimmer did most of the work because i put the medicine in the sump and the skimmer sucked up most of it right away...my new fire and cleaner shrimps are fine...but about the poly filter...is that a filter pad that you would be using permanently anyways or is it just a temporary incase of emergency thing? Does it take anything beneficial out?

 

[andy1130]

A little off subject but I dont count Petco or Petsmart in the same group as a LFS, even though they sell fish, in all the ones that Ive been in most of the people who work there are absolutely clueless, their livestock always looks terrible, there is a minimum of one dead fish sitting in the bottom of one of their tanks and at least one tank is ALWAYS displaying severe symptoms of some disease, and because each of the stores ive been in have all their saltwater tanks on one filtration system that means all the tanks are exposed to it.
I would stick to stores that specialize in fish, it usually means the emplyees have at least some idea what they are talking about. Also, I dont really think there is any point in killing off more shrimp to prove to some idiot a medicine isnt reef safe, if he doesnt believe it after reading it on the box its pretty much a lost cause.

 

[clown-lover]

I think my skimmer did most of the work because i put the medicine in the sump and the skimmer sucked up most of it right away...my new fire and cleaner shrimps are fine...but about the poly filter...is that a filter pad that you would be using permanently anyways or is it just a temporary incase of emergency thing? Does it take anything beneficial out?

You can use the poly filter either way. You can put it in permanantly or only when you need.