DIY medication foods

[West1]

I’m looking to copy a DIY recipe of medicated foods. I seen API General cure was the best to use but I can’t find any in stock anywhere.

many other diy powder recipes out there to treat internal parasites in a reef display?

I currently don’t see any signs of internal parasites but I’d like to do this for every new fish I get or just to have the stuff on hand.

tyvm

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

We have a couple of tools here that allow you to dose medicated food properly. It is more difficult to do it correctly, but worth it in terms of benefit and safety to the fish. The crux of the issue is most people do this: add some medication to focus, add some focus/meds to some amount of food and feed some food to the fish. Each time you see the word "some" that is an uncontrolled variable. With four variables like that, you really have NO idea of your dose.

Here are the links:

Proper Dosing of Medicated Foods

Proper Dosing of Medicated Foods Jay Hemdal c. 2020 Oral medications are an excellent way to target internal diseases of fishes. Marine fish absorb aquarium water, so in certain cases, they “drink” enough medication from the water to effect a cure. However, freshwater fish actively export...

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Fish Weight Calculator / Medicated Fish Food Mix Calculator

If you follow threads on the Fish Disease Treatment and Diagnosis forum, you know that whenever oral medication is the recommended treatment, @Jay Hemdal cautions that achieving the proper dosage is critical to success. He often refers to his article Proper Dosing of Medicated Foods. That...

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Jay

 

[West1]

We have a couple of tools here that allow you to dose medicated food properly. It is more difficult to do it correctly, but worth it in terms of benefit and safety to the fish. The crux of the issue is most people do this: add some medication to focus, add some focus/meds to some amount of food and feed some food to the fish. Each time you see the word "some" that is an uncontrolled variable. With four variables like that, you really have NO idea of your dose.

Here are the links:

Proper Dosing of Medicated Foods

Proper Dosing of Medicated Foods Jay Hemdal c. 2020 Oral medications are an excellent way to target internal diseases of fishes. Marine fish absorb aquarium water, so in certain cases, they “drink” enough medication from the water to effect a cure. However, freshwater fish actively export...

www.reef2reef.com

Fish Weight Calculator / Medicated Fish Food Mix Calculator

If you follow threads on the Fish Disease Treatment and Diagnosis forum, you know that whenever oral medication is the recommended treatment, @Jay Hemdal cautions that achieving the proper dosage is critical to success. He often refers to his article Proper Dosing of Medicated Foods. That...

www.reef2reef.com

Jay

Thank you very much. It seems a little complicating to me on figuring out what medication to use but I’ll have to read it again. Hopefully I understand it better then.