Subj : Re: Please help!!! To : All From : Starfish Date : Tue Nov 30 2004 09:56 pm Thankyou! The vets wont have anything to do with fish (which is a real shame) I suppose thats what you get when you live in a town with 10000 people (including the surrounding districts) in it in Regional Queensland......\ grrrr "Limnophile" wrote in message news:pm1rd.24583$Hh2.4051@fe07.lga... > > "Starfish" wrote in message > news:P3Zqd.53652$K7.29461@news-server.bigpond.net.au... >>I have no antibiotics available and no vets in my region know anything >>about fish. >> What else can help? >> Salt? > > Salt can help, but use it carefully. Too much salt will stress your fish > and make things worse. Keep up the daily water changes too. For a goldfish > I would use 0.5 grams of salt per liter for about a week, then stop using > salt and keep the water changes going. > > If your vetrinarian is willing to help but doesn't know which medications > to use, 10 mg per liter of erythromycin or tetracycline should do the > trick. > > Other antibiotic pills / tablets can be used, but at different doses. Fish > should be treated with antibiotics as if the aquarium was a large animal, > horse / cow / pig etc. For example, if you have a 400 liter tank, it > should get the same amount of antibiotic as a 400 kg horse. > > Or if you can't find a vetrinarian willing to prescibe antibiotics, salt > is less effective but should help. > > Limnophile > > --- þ RIMEGate(tm)/RGXPost V1.14 at BBSWORLD * Info@bbsworld.com --- * RIMEGate(tm)V10.2áÿ* RelayNet(tm) NNTP Gateway * MoonDog BBS * RgateImp.MoonDog.BBS at 11/30/04 9:56:27 PM * Origin: MoonDog BBS, Brooklyn,NY, 718 692-2498, 1:278/230 (1:278/230) .