Quick Cure On Catfish

[sZENic]

Hello,
Does anyone know if Quick Cure is safe for pictus and raphael catfish at half dose? Any advice/comments appreciated!

 

[fluttermoth]

As far as I can find, yes, you should be fine.

I'd add it very slowly; maybe fill a couple of buckets with tank water first so you can net the fish and get them in the old water if they start to become distressed.

 

[sZENic]

As far as I can find, yes, you should be fine.

I'd add it very slowly; maybe fill a couple of buckets with tank water first so you can net the fish and get them in the old water if they start to become distressed.

Thanks! And what would be signs they are distressed?

 

[fishguy2727]

I don't think you even need to do it at half dose. Certain fish are sensitive to it, but not whole groups or all fish with a certain characteristic.

If they start swimming around frantically or gasping rapidly they are stressed out.

 

[sZENic]

I don't think you even need to do it at half dose. Certain fish are sensitive to it, but not whole groups or all fish with a certain characteristic.

If they start swimming around frantically or gasping rapidly they are stressed out.

The reason I was doing it at half dose is because the bottle says to for tetra group fish, and it's my von rio and pristella tetras that had the ick. But thanks! I'll keep an eye on my catfish.

 

[fluttermoth]

It's really only the scaleless fish (mostly loaches, but some catfish, like your pictus, too) that are affected badly by meds; yours ought to be fine with a half dose.

 

[fishguy2727]

IME that is a myth. The idea of scaleless fish being more sensitive to meds doesn't seem to be well supported. Meds get in through the gills, not the skin. Not that meds can't be absorbed through the skin, but that it isn't the main way. What makes it worse is that for some reason this idea is also applied to fish like plecoes, cories, etc. that have extra thick scales. Obviously scalation doesn't have a major impact on a fish's sensitivity to meds.

I have used double dosing of quick cure on many 'sensitive' fish (tetras, loaches, scaleless catfish, plecoes, cories, etc.) without any issues ever.

 

[sZENic]

IME that is a myth. The idea of scaleless fish being more sensitive to meds doesn't seem to be well supported. Meds get in through the gills, not the skin. Not that meds can't be absorbed through the skin, but that it isn't the main way. What makes it worse is that for some reason this idea is also applied to fish like plecoes, cories, etc. that have extra thick scales. Obviously scalation doesn't have a major impact on a fish's sensitivity to meds.

I have used double dosing of quick cure on many 'sensitive' fish (tetras, loaches, scaleless catfish, plecoes, cories, etc.) without any issues ever.

Did you find that double dosing got rid of the disease faster? And have you had any ick recurrences?

 

[fishguy2727]

This is over my fifteen years of experience, not one tank. I double dosed when a normal dose wasn't making a difference, the double dose almost always did.

The point is that the idea that certain fish are more sensitive to it isn't as true as it is restated. Some are, but not because of scalation.