Bill Stock wrote:
"Kay" wrote in message
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http://www.mu.edu/~buxtoni/puregold/...L,%20Melaleuca

TEA TREE OIL, Melaleuca controversy

Use of this oil in various formulations should proceed with caution for

several

reasons.

There are numerous adverse reactions in other animal species.
There are some adverse reactions in fish.
It is related to the turpentine family.
It is a lipophilic oil that is absorbed across the skin, both dry and

mucosal.

It is an oil related to those with hepatoxicity and neurotoxicity.
It is not all that effective compared to other medications.
Use in land animals is on a limited area of the skin. Fish are immersed

in this for

periods of time. Ingestion appears to cause more toxicity than contact.

Material Safety Data Sheet.

http://www.coldstream-plantation.com.au/material.html

I really like Aquarium Pharmaceutical test kits... but at least the

melaleuca stuff

is a recycled old time remedy. I dont have any idea what this pimafix

is, but it is

another oil of some kind. GF can smell really well. I just wouldnt be

using this

stuff just cause it is new. there are normal remedies, malachite,

methlene blue and

PP that work GREAT. MB for example is used to treat GF eggs against

fungus. Ingrid


"Bill Stock" wrote:



OK, I wimped out, didn't go with the Potassium Permanganate. I did not

want

to wipe out the Biofilter, as some had suggested. So I picked up some
Pimafix and Melafix for the boys. Only the one large fish has a

noticeable

fungal infection (fuzzy white spot on his snout, but the others are

showing

signs of a secondary bacterial infection. I applied 7 tsps of the

Pimafix

yesterday and a good deal of the fuzz was gone this morning. I thought I

saw

a brown spot of the center of the fungus this morning. I applied a

second

dose of Pimafix this afternoon and the brown spot is gone. Now there is

just

a hole where the white fuzz had been, like a bad zit.

The Pimafix says to apply for seven days, but I've noticed that this

stuff

really freaks the fish out when you add it. Does this stuff sting or is

it

just the smell that bothers them? Secondly, the blurb says I can use the
Melafix and Pimafix together. What's the Melafix going to do for me (the
fishies) that Pimafix does not.

Comments from Pimafix/Melafix users appreciated.






My fish has no ill effects from melafix at all. I have not used pima fix
as of yet.


I used it on fish who was in a q-tank because he was new and he had a
cotton like fluff comeing from a gill. And Melifix took care of that.

Other than that, I have use it for torn fins on danios, minnows and a
really sick ram.

If I had a real sick fish, I would have other medications on standby.
And if the fish was really bad I would use both. I did that with the
Ram. took 3 weeks but he made it. I really didn't think he was going to
live he was old. He lived another year and a half!

I would not mix anything with PP though. If you are still thinking of
trying that. I used Ingrid's sugestion on th estock solution and it
worked well for me.

Kay