Ozdude wrote:

I read on a betta site last night that C.f. actually does have some highly
resistant strains now, something like the super-bug in hospitals that no
anti-biotic can beat.

I was a nurse, hence my dislike of over use of antibiotics

There is always the option too of breaking the tank down - completely
disinfecting and steralizing it and starting again, which in itself isn't
such a bad thing. At least you get a second chance to get your aquascaping
and things you got wrong first time around, right

An opiton here too right now.


I treated my tank with tri-sulphur and the two XXXXfix fluids today and I
had a bit of a brainstorm about mediacted food - instead of flakes, pellets
or bloodworms - they got fed sinking wafers in a DIY feeder which prevents
it from settling on the substrate (an inverted plastic lid with a sucker
attached - half way down the water column which acts as a platform). As the
food absorbs the water it takes up the meds and you have a sort of crude
medicated feed. I figured it wouldn't hurt them because it's also getting
into their blood via respiration through the gill membranes.

Where did you get the tri-sulphur? I like you combination of medications.

I get annoyed that I can't get antibiotics for fish until I start to think
of what could happen. In the long run I don't suppose it will help Aust.
b/c the countries that allow free use of antibiotics will bring in their
resistant bugs here anyway.


This is why our quarantine is so full on - Australia prides itself on it's
freedom from o/s problems like this. BSE is a good example of this policy in
action.
Yeah, but the humans can still walk right through
I'm a farmer now and get quite cranky when people say how they managed
to get such and such through customs.


I just heard it is forecast to get to 36 here tomorrow - it's autumn isn't
it?


It is indeed, but over the last decade at least I've noticed the seasons
moving to slightly later into the year. There are also the El Ninio and La
Nina effects we have influencing the weather here ;(

SOI has fairly dropped so we are on our way to another El Nino probably.

Oz

Up in one of your other posts (which I cna't now find) I saw that you
can't get PP. Did you try a chemist? When I was nursing we used to use
it for bathing kids with infected scabies.

I can now get into that website btw.

Also, does anyone know if PP will stain any tank equipment? It sure
makes a mess of a white bathtub.

Oz, it is so good having you here as a fellow Aussie who understands the
problems of the antibiotic lack. So much of the net where I've asked
questions the replies have been to use this or that antibiotic and when
you say you can't, it's like, tough titty or what planet do you come
from. You have dragged much more info out of everyone here than I have
been able to anywhere - GREAT WORK!!!


miskairal