Quick death
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melypr1985
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possibly a gram negative bacterial infection. Septicemia may be part of it.
+1 Hemorrhagic septicemia; there is both a viral and bacterial version of this disease. The virus is impossible to cure, the bacterial infection is very difficult to treat and highly contagious.
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Cherim7
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+1 Hemorrhagic septicemia; there is both a viral and bacterial version of this disease. The virus is impossible to cure, the bacterial infection is very difficult to treat and highly contagious.
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Cherim7
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I've had this fish for 6 years plus
Sorry for your loss.
Well the virus or bacteria had to come from somewhere....it doesn't travel through the air....It would not lay dormant for 6+ years. What did you add last and when?
+1 Another fish could have been the original host. Possibly a fish with acquired immunity. Or a single bacterium could have come in on a drop of water on a new coral frag. It could be something that simple and seemingly innocent.
Came back from a trip to Europe a few days ago and discovered a few red patches on my yellow tang. Yesterday it erupted and covered about 80% of his body. I woke up this morning and he was dead at the bottom of the tank. My friend who was taking care of the fish while I was one said she thought that red algae grew on him. This didn't make any sense. He also stopped eating when these patches appeared. I have some other fish in the tank, will they get it too?
Robert McCreary
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found this medicine may help for future reference. would anyone else recommend this to be used on an infected fish?!
sorry to hear about the fish deaths on this thread.....
https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailym...4775-e204-41bc-9fee-bd0a0aa70b21&type=display
sorry to hear about the fish deaths on this thread.....
https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailym...4775-e204-41bc-9fee-bd0a0aa70b21&type=display
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kchristensen8064
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Have you seen this stuff? I had a couple of fish with bacterial issues and I used this. They healed right up. Here's my thread on it.
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?ur...&share_tid=394299&share_fid=1020&share_type=t
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?ur...&share_tid=394299&share_fid=1020&share_type=t
Robert McCreary
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thanks for the info, so ofcourse you would use the Oxytetracycline or Kanamycin
im only worried that some fish might not accept the flake either because the fish is sick and wont eat or a new fish that only eats certain types of food. though im going to buy some of this stuff it sounds very good.
whats the shelf life? hopefully itll never be used
im only worried that some fish might not accept the flake either because the fish is sick and wont eat or a new fish that only eats certain types of food. though im going to buy some of this stuff it sounds very good.
whats the shelf life? hopefully itll never be used
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kchristensen8064
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If it's not eating then I don't know how you would go about it. All my fish ate this stuff up. I keep it in the freezer to extend the shelf life. I'll have to look when I get home what it says though.
Just a heads up, if kanamycin is used in food it will just cause a GI purge. It does not get absorbed via the GI tract.
