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Originally Posted by Rianyu
No worries. I'd rather learn as much as I can than not.
Active Ingredient: Victoria Green, Acriflavine
It doesnt say what concentration it is, just 1 tablet to each 10G (half if small/scaleless fish)
I just lost a bristlenose today. Cory is breathing fast aswell. Tested water again and came back with normal readings.
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Thanks for the reply. How long has tank been going again?
Geez, that sounds rough - what is your tank temp, I never saw?
Looking through the web it's hard to find much (as usual) but it seems all over the place on dosing. People have their own dosing regimes even when daily is specified.
The multi-cure product I have (although Australia is behind the times) also has
MG (0.4mg/ml), acriflavine (2mg/ml) and MB (4mg/ml). It aids in the treatment of white spot. Dose once every 3 days. The last white spot med I had (
MG and formalin) was also dose every three days. No fish were lost from ich or meds. I guess it depends on meds dosing concentration though as well as tank water chemistry. So hard to compare products and results.
The trouble is that I could count the number of times I've had ich on one hand (almost ). It's not like the tank gets it every few years so I've barely tried meds vs heat treatments.
However next time I'd get waterlife protozin which is dose day 1,2,3 and then day 6 to finish off. An initial daily dose makes sense and then taper off.
So I'm still getting my head around daily dosing. I just don't think you could do that for too long even with the newer US products. Happy to be corrected.
The best information I got was from seachem paraguard support site which said daily dosing was fine unless the fish was under stress. Seachem would be one product I would trust.
So I'm really just speculating here. Will have to do more research. As you have done, I'd be adjusting the dose to something that works but keeps stress as low as possible. A fine line!
The heat method for treating ich is looking perhaps safer. My limited experience has been it works fine as long as the ich is caught early. Mainly I think as you have to lift heat gradually (but at the same time the ich cycle is increasing with higher heat until it gets too hot for ich to keep breeding).
So why use meds? Well at higher heat, bacterial infections are more likely. If you have had an outbreak of columnaris recently I'd be wary of the heat method. For example.
http://www.seachem.com/support/forum...ead.php?t=7065
Edit - in your case, I would be looking at a small water change to see if that improves maters. Tricky, as all white spot needs to be gone which I think you said was the case?
Here the dosing is every three days because organic material will soak up the meds until they lose effectiveness. So the med strength would be decreasing even though a little of the dye goes a long way.
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