Shrimps And Treatments

[sarah86]

i posted a couple of days ago about one of my fish has a white patch, well ive done more research and it looks like slime disease. i bought some treatment but then read on the back that it shouldnt be used with invertebrates. will it kill my shrimp if i use it? is there anything else i can do to treat it? i would take the shrimp out the tank but i only see them once in a blue moon so finding them would be more or less impossible, plus i dont have another tank set up at the moment.
any advice anyone??

edited to say:

i have just read it again and it says

'can be used in coldwater and tropical freshwater aquariums and also marine aquariums which do not contain invertebrates or marine sharks. any marine fish which need treating in an aquarium with invertebrates must be removed to a seperate aqaurium for treatment'

that to me sounds like its only marine invertebrates that will be affected and that freshwater ones would be fine, anyone know?

 

[Chuka1212]

I am not exactly sure, but I know that inverts are much more sensitive to treatments than are vertebrates. Not sure why this is, it may have somthing to do with the fact that invert respiration makes it much easier for chemicals to enter... but who knows.

I have used an ich treatment, I believe it was, with some shrimp and they survived. I have also heard of using treatments and having large scale invert death. have you done any searches for it? we need a good invert expert to help ya, sorry I wasn't much more help ...

 

[sarah86]

thanx for the reply chuka, they have survived ich treatment and fin rot treatment before and they way it reads to be is that it only affects marine invertabrates so ive used it. if they die its a shame but this really needs treating incase all the fish become infected. fingers crossed they'll be ok. they are so difficult to see, we bought them and then didnt see them for about 2 months then all 3 appeared at once then they all dissapeared again

 

[Chuka1212]

Well good luck. Hope all goes well.

 

[raptorrex]

I am not exactly sure, but I know that inverts are much more sensitive to treatments than are vertebrates. Not sure why this is, it may have somthing to do with the fact that invert respiration makes it much easier for chemicals to enter... but who knows.

I have used an ich treatment, I believe it was, with some shrimp and they survived. I have also heard of using treatments and having large scale invert death. have you done any searches for it? we need a good invert expert to help ya, sorry I wasn't much more help ...

anything with copper in is mucho bad for inverts.