Both work. I actually prefer methylene blue for fungal treatments, but malachite green works on fungi as well.I thought it was methylene blue. Heard it a lot.
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Both work. I actually prefer methylene blue for fungal treatments, but malachite green works on fungi as well.I thought it was methylene blue. Heard it a lot.
I’ve also been fortunate enough not to have to visit the sick fish area very often. I’ve only dealt with ich, flukes, Malawi bloat and had an online purchase arrive with some kind of sepsis. But I always treat for two weeks past the point of seeing no symptoms.Well, I never hang out in the sick fish forum, but I do 14 days of treatment (what ever your tx choice is) after absolutely NO ich spots.
Squint as I might I can't see the hatchet's tail well enough to even have a guess. Some bacterial issues can come up secondarily to ich...but I think malachite green helps with some. Not as well as a "real" antibiotic...
Sepsis in fish?I’ve also been fortunate enough not to have to visit the sick fish area very often. I’ve only dealt with ich, flukes, Malawi bloat and had an online purchase arrive with some kind of sepsis. But I always treat for two weeks past the point of seeing no symptoms.
I used to use Nox Ich but I have had a 100% success rate raising the temp to 88, in marine and fresh. With marine I also did a freshwater dip for those that were severely infested.methylene blue is a different dye, it works on ich too but I wouldn't use both (a couple meds have both). TTA had linked an article that compares many meds effects on ich PAR1100186 149..190 (stir.ac.uk) Page down to the table. Metro doesn't work, many forms of malachite & meth blue effective but many are used as baths. Those are usually higher dose for hours rather than days & can be harder on fish, as is the stress of catching them. I've only done the tank treatments following the directions of 1 drop or 2/gallon.
I think he had another on the different effects of blue & green dyes but I'm not finding it.
Im so sorry to hear about your lil girlThat’s what I was told, I fortunately haven’t had to deal with many diseases. I know how to treat the few I have dealt with though. This girl got stuck in the mail for a week and the water was cold and smelled foul. I treated with kanaplex but unfortunately she died after a week.
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