Treating Diseases

[bradbury1982]

Can you harm fish if you treat for a disease that you think and it actually isn't ??

 

[WILDER]

Yes as you are causing fish more stress, when a fish is stressed it immune system is weak.

 

[bradbury1982]

I think I have a few different disease, such as swim bladder and and I have danios with bent spines what shall I do xx

 

[scooterchick]

You got any stats? Amonia, nitrite, nitrate, PH, size of tank, inhabitants? All these things are important when it comes to advising the best course of treatment, it could be you have too many fish in too small a tank making a very heavy bioload, resulting in over active bacteria, possible amonia, leading to stressed fish and multiple diseases.

How often do you clean your tank? A heavy bioload could mean the water is dirty after a day or two, few fish in big tank you could get away with water changes every couple of weeks.

Bent spines is not a good sign, were they always bent? If not it would be fish TB, which basically means you have to quaratine the tank, no fish in, no fish out. Can you get pics?

 

[Tolak]

All medications, even at the proper dosage rate, are a poison to some life form. What you are trying to do is kill (poison) the bacteria, fungus, or parasite that is harming the organism without killing the organism itself.

Medicating for the wrong thing will cause unneeded stress, and has the possibility of creating drug resistant strains of that disease.

 

[WILDER]

Bent spines mean.
Born that way.
Old age.
Internal parasites.
Fish tb.