How much epsom salt to combat dropsy?

On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:39:55 -0500, wrote:

here is the treatment for dropsy pioneered by Jo Ann, the Goldfish
Guru
http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/d...ame.htm#dropsy

basically it is: shove temp up to 86oF, add 1/8 teaspoon of Epsom
salts per 5 gallons and NO regular salt.
feed antibiotic food like romet or with oxolinic acid

I have heard of humans getting fish mycobacterium. but in humans it
is a cutaneous form of TB. I dont think you have it anymore, just the
antibody. dropsy is caused by lots and lots of different things.
dropsy is a loss of regulation of electrolytes, sorta like edema in
humans. heat is the most important part of treating it in fish.
Ingrid


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Hi Dr. Solo,

Thank you for your continuing responses & help over the past
couple weeks.
I have 3 more questions:

1. When using epson salt, do I dose the tank once, or keep
adding a new dose every day? I would assume that just one dose of the
proper strength is needed.

2. Will the epsom salt hurt my other goldfish, which shows no
signs of any problems? I only have one tank. Do I need to get
another one and separate the 2 fish? They are real "close" and I
think they would be stressed to be separated. Once when I put a
partition in the tank both struggled like crazy to get to each other
past the partition.

3. Finally, where in the world can I get romet B? I spent five
hours yesterday in a nearby large city visiting 6 fish shops and
none of them had romet, and even claimed to have neever heard of it.

Thanks again,

Dave123

On Sep 6, 12:42 pm, wrote:
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:39:55 -0500, wrote:
here is the treatment for dropsy pioneered by Jo Ann, the Goldfish
Guru
http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/d...ame.htm#dropsy

basically it is: shove temp up to 86oF, add 1/8 teaspoon of Epsom
salts per 5 gallons and NO regular salt.
feed antibiotic food like romet or with oxolinic acid

I have heard of humans getting fish mycobacterium. but in humans it
is a cutaneous form of TB. I dont think you have it anymore, just the
antibody. dropsy is caused by lots and lots of different things.
dropsy is a loss of regulation of electrolytes, sorta like edema in
humans. heat is the most important part of treating it in fish.
Ingrid

(snip my original post)

Hi Dr. Solo,

Thank you for your continuing responses & help over the past
couple weeks.
I have 3 more questions:

1. When using epson salt, do I dose the tank once, or keep
adding a new dose every day? I would assume that just one dose of the
proper strength is needed.

2. Will the epsom salt hurt my other goldfish, which shows no
signs of any problems? I only have one tank. Do I need to get
another one and separate the 2 fish? They are real "close" and I
think they would be stressed to be separated. Once when I put a
partition in the tank both struggled like crazy to get to each other
past the partition.

3. Finally, where in the world can I get romet B? I spent five
hours yesterday in a nearby large city visiting 6 fish shops and
none of them had romet, and even claimed to have neever heard of it.

Thanks again,

Dave123- Hide quoted text -

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yea, go b y a 90 gal for the healthy one, and a zip lock bag for the
loser. DUH..you are a nut case Dave..............Liostening to those
LFS and romet is like listening to that lesbo Dr. Solo.are you a gay
guy perhaps dave, is that why you like Ingrid so much.your two closet
queers?

On Sep 6, 12:42 pm, wrote:
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:39:55 -0500, wrote:
here is the treatment for dropsy pioneered by Jo Ann, the Goldfish
Guru
http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/d...ame.htm#dropsy

basically it is: shove temp up to 86oF, add 1/8 teaspoon of Epsom
salts per 5 gallons and NO regular salt.
feed antibiotic food like romet or with oxolinic acid

I have heard of humans getting fish mycobacterium. but in humans it
is a cutaneous form of TB. I dont think you have it anymore, just the
antibody. dropsy is caused by lots and lots of different things.
dropsy is a loss of regulation of electrolytes, sorta like edema in
humans. heat is the most important part of treating it in fish.
Ingrid

(snip my original post)

Hi Dr. Solo,

Thank you for your continuing responses & help over the past
couple weeks.
I have 3 more questions:

1. When using epson salt, do I dose the tank once, or keep
adding a new dose every day? I would assume that just one dose of the
proper strength is needed.

2. Will the epsom salt hurt my other goldfish, which shows no
signs of any problems? I only have one tank. Do I need to get
another one and separate the 2 fish? They are real "close" and I
think they would be stressed to be separated. Once when I put a
partition in the tank both struggled like crazy to get to each other
past the partition.

3. Finally, where in the world can I get romet B? I spent five
hours yesterday in a nearby large city visiting 6 fish shops and
none of them had romet, and even claimed to have neever heard of it.

Thanks again,

Dave123- Hide quoted text -

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Sounds like the real close fish were probably queer goldies....just
like you dave..........

dose it once, then add more when adding more water. dont worry about
overdosing when adding 1/8 teaspoon per dose.

no, Epsom salts is mild. dont move anybody out and stress teh
dropsied fish at this point.

Antibiotics in food
The food I use is Romet B. However, antibiotic food can be made by
either soaking sinking pellets in antibiotic laced water, by mixing
antibiotics into cooled gelatin, or by coating the food and rolling
the food in oil to keep the antibiotics on the food in the water.
TMP-4 and oxolinic acid are two good antibiotics to add to food.
Erythromycin is used when staph or strep (gram positive bacteria) is
suspected. Almost all pathogenic bacteria are resistant to
Tetracycline.
Fishy Fharmacy 1-800-423-2035
you can get kanamycin or something like that in pet stores.

google for Dandy Orandas and see if the guy has antibiotic food of
some kind.

the heat is the most important part of the treatment. but do finally
get the antibiotic food and keep in frozen.

romet B is used on catfish farms. Ingrid

On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:42:18 -0400, wrote:


1. When using epson salt, do I dose the tank once, or keep
adding a new dose every day? I would assume that just one dose of the
proper strength is needed.

2. Will the epsom salt hurt my other goldfish, which shows no
signs of any problems? I only have one tank. Do I need to get
another one and separate the 2 fish? They are real "close" and I
think they would be stressed to be separated. Once when I put a
partition in the tank both struggled like crazy to get to each other
past the partition.

3. Finally, where in the world can I get romet B? I spent five
hours yesterday in a nearby large city visiting 6 fish shops and
none of them had romet, and even claimed to have neever heard of it.

Thanks again,

Dave123

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3. Finally, where in the world can I get romet B? I spent five
hours yesterday in a nearby large city visiting 6 fish shops and
none of them had romet, and even claimed to have neever heard of it.



Allow me to suggest you save your money as most of these easily bought (no
prescription) medications no longer work. The bacteria are immune to them
due to overuse. I've had goldfish for many years and none ever survived
dropsy.
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