Anti Bacterial Fish Food

[Daveo026]

Hi all just wondering if anti bacterial food is worth it and witch make of food would be best just thinking about getting some for small infections if/or when it happens

Thanks in advance

 

[thereverendturtle]

Yeah it is. As for brands the only one I can find is made by jungle and my fish won't eat it. It's kind of large pellets.

 

[Daveo026]

I would cut the pellets up if needed il see if anyone else knows any other brands and il see about getting some cheers for that

 

[raptorrex]

is this just for treatment, or for general consumption?

 

[elmo666]

Personally I wouldn't bother. Stick with a good staple diet, using the best pellet/flake funds allow with frozen food fed 3 x weekly or so, as a rough guide. Then, if anything does flare up, treat the whole tank as you will have no idea if any infection is water-born or not.

 

[Daveo026]

I would use it for minor injury/infections if they happen not as there main food at mo my fish get flake pellet live food just asking advice really

 

[elmo666]

Sorry if my wording caused confusion. I did realise it wouldn't be fed all the time. Am just wondering how you can be sure if this way of treating would prove successful. You see, sick fish don't tend to eat too well, whereas well fish do, so I can't see how you can determine how much treatment each fish is getting. If you dose the tank you pretty much know the level of treatment is correct if you know your tank volume.

 

[Daveo026]

You do have a point there my danios would probably over dose lol

 

[elmo666]

Yep, any poorly fish down below wouldn't get a look-in in my tank either, the rams and angels would have it all!

 

[raptorrex]

handy for quarantine or hospital tank patients.
and we all have one or the other, dont we? lol

however as i can find no information on any of its "Anti Bacterial" ingredients.
and as Jungle Labs now longer even list these things
look see: linky

I'd avoid them like the plague.
to be fair the same could be said for everything they peddle.

the other mysterious brands of med food, offer even less information.
so same there.

shame, nice idea though.

 

[creeker]

I add antibiotics to the food of any fish I think is suffering from a bacterial infection. Works like a charm. Similarly, I used to make it into a paste and eyedropper it into the mouth of sick reptiles. You do need to be cautious not to overtreat, though.

 

[raptorrex]

I add antibiotics to the food of any fish I think is suffering from a bacterial infection. Works like a charm. Similarly, I used to make it into a paste and eyedropper it into the mouth of sick reptiles. You do need to be cautious not to overtreat, though.

sounds good, providing the Antibiotics are prescribed.
antibiotics are far too valuable to humans, to be used by amateurs.
any incorrect use of them, breed resistance into the bacterial family's.

 

[Daveo026]

Thanks for your help guys im not going to bother with it seems safer not to use it

 

[raptorrex]

even ignoring its "safety".

it seems to me too many fish would not eat it.
that in itself is enough for it to be ignored.