Re: Fish problems. Dropsy?

Well, I'm pretty pleased with this Interpet stuff.  Today the scales are
down (not perfect, you can still see the red underneath) and the anal port
is still red.  He's still acting completely freaked - but he seems a bit
better. For 8 hours worth of treatment, I think he's going to be ok.  We'll
see.

As for antibiotics, it does look like it'll have to be online in future -
the only problem is customs and whether I can get whoever is sending the
package to classify it as a gift with little value and nothing to do with
chemicals.  Airplanes don't take kindly to carrying those kind of substances
as far as I know.

I'm going to go buy the peroxide now.  Then I'm going to leave it till this
evening to see whether he's better.  If he is, then I'll probably spare him
the stress.

Thank you for your Time Ingrid - but without antibiotics I'm pretty stuffed
with your methods at the moment. I'll pray this works and start looking
towards the black fish market later on!

BTW - puregold is a great resource, but a little confusing.  Are you
thinking of upgrading the site?

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> can you get potassium permanganate?  KMNO4?  it is used in water
softening.
> http://users.megapathdsl.net/~solo/puregold/disease/disease.htm
> in the treatment says how to make up stock solution.  this stuff really
kills
> columnaris on the outside.  so you cannot get antibiotics for inside the
tank?  not
> even sulfa type antibiotics?  for food, just soak the dry food in the
antibiotic in a
> little water.  you might consider ordering it online for future fish.
Ingrid
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