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Aquarium Fish Disease Diagnostic : Fish Medication Index

Aquarium Products: Clout (Freshwater & Saltwater)

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- Treats

  • Visible Parasites
  • Gasping for air
  • Rapid Breathing
  • Flicking or Scratching
  • Listless Behavior (Just sitting around)
  • Excess Mucus Behavior
  • Ick (White spot)
  • Lernae (Anchor Worms)
  • Argulus (Fish Lice)
  • Leeches
  • Protozoan Parasites (Costia, Trichodina, Chilodonella)
  • Gyrodactylus (Skin Flukes)
  • Dactylogurus (Gill Flukes)
  • Parasitic Copepods
  • Digenetic Flukes
  • Monogenetic Flukes
  • Planaria
  • Hexamita
  • Hydra

 

Aquarium Products: Fluke Tabs (Freshwater & Saltwater)

- Treats

  • Anchor Worms (Lernia)
  • Body Flukes (Gyrodactylus)
  • Gill Flukes (Dactylogyrus)
  • Fish Lice (Argulus)
  • Tapeworms
  • Parasitic Copepods

Aquarium Products: Hex-Out (Use in a quarantine tank if possible)

- Treats

  • Hexamita (Hole-in-the-head disease) - Small holes, usually whitish to grey in the body and head region.

Aquarium Products: Quick Cure

- Treats

  • Protozoan Parasites (Costia, Trichodina, Chilodonella)
  • Flicking or scratching again items in the tank.
  • Ick

Aquafish: Amoxicillin

- Treats

  • Broad spectrum bacterial antibiotic
  • Effective against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria
  • Effective against a number of pathogenic bacteria associated with marine and freshwater ornamental fish diseases
  • Infected eyes
  • Fin and tail rot
  • Skin ulcerations
  • pop-eye
  • Columnaris disease
  • Gill disease

Aquafish: Ciprofloxacin

- Treats

  • Synthetic broad spectrum antibiotic that is effective against gram-negative and some gram-positive bacterial pathogems of fish, e.g. aeromonads, flexibacteria, vibrios
  • Columnaris infections (Fin Rot, Saddleback, and Black Patch Necrosis Syndromes)
  • Freshwater and Saltwater Furuncolosis (skin ulcers, systemic disease)
  • Because it inhibits unique target enzymes needed for bacterial replication and DNA repair, it may be effective against bacteria unresponsive to other antibiotics

Mardel: Maracyn

- Treats

  • Columnaris (Body Fungus)
  • Fin and tail rot
  • Popeye
  • Gill Disease

Mardel: Maracyn-Two

- Treats

  • Septicemia - Bleeding of red blood streaks on the body
  • Fin and tail rot
  • Dropsy
  • Popeye
  • Gill Disease

Mardel: Coppersafe

- Treats

  • Ick
  • Velvet
  • Other external parasites

Mardel: Maroxy

- Treats

  • For true fungal infections of fish and their eggs
  • Fungus - whitish cottony tufts of patches found on the fish's body, fins, or open wound areas
  • Bacterial Disease - Clamped fins, rapid breathing, patchy or discoloration, swollen eyes, etc.

 

 

Aquarium Products: Had-A-Snail

- Treats

  • Freshwater treatment for snails
  • Doesn't upset bio system
  • Safe for both fish and plants

Aquafish: Ampicillin

- Treats

  • Wide spectrum anti-fungal/anti-bacterial antibiotic
  • Effective against gram-positive and gram-negative organisms
  • Infected eyes
  • White body slime
  • Columnaris
  • Popeye
  • Fungal infections
  • Advanced fin and tail rot
  • Good with bacterial infections

Aquafish: Tetracycline

- Treats

  • Specially compounded broad-spectrum gram-negative antibiotic which has been shown to be effective against a number of pathogenic bacteria associated with ornamental fish disease
  • Fin and tail rot
  • Pop-eye
  • Gill Disease
  • General Listlessness
  • No appetite or other unusual behavior
  • Internal infections

Aquafish: Metronidazole

- Treats

  • A batericidal, amebicidal, and trichomonacidal antibiotic effective in the control of bacterial diseases and some parasitic diseases (those casused by single cell protozoa) in marine and freshwater ornamental fish
  • Inside both bacteria and protozoa, metronidazole is reduced to a toxic compound that discrupts the organism's replication cycle. It is active against most anaerobic bacteria and amoeba that infect intestinal and extrainstestinal sites
  • Head and lateral line erosion disease
  • Hole-in-the-head
  • Gill disease
  • Systemic illnesses or internal diseases caused by intestinal bacterial or amoeboid parasites
  • Columnaris Disease
  • Gill Disease

Aquarium Products: Formalin

- Treats

  • External protozoans

Aquatronics: Paragon

- Treats

  • Hole in the head
  • Copepods and Leeches
  • Anchor Worms
  • Flukes and Argulus
  • Fungal Infections
  • Epistylus
  • Trichodina
  • Leeches
  • Ick

Aquatronics: Paragon II

- Treats

  • Hexamita
  • Whirling and wasting away
  • Swimbladder disease
  • Ick/Protozoa Infections
  • Secondary Bacterial Infections
  • Body swelling

Aquatronics: Nitrofura-G

- Treats

  • Red patches or streaks
  • Fin and tail rot
  • Hemorrhagin and open sores
  • Gold fish disease
  • Bacterial infections
  • Furunculosis
  • Gill Disease

Aquarium Products : Aquari-Sol (Freshwater Only)

- Treats

  • For parasites and mild ick - Sometimes used as a preventative
  • Costia, Trichodian, Chilodonella)
  • Ick

Mardel: Trisulfa

- Treats

  • Popeye
  • Gill Disease
  • Fin and tail rot

Aquafish: Erythromycin

- Treats

  • Specially compounded broad-spectrum antibiotic which has been shown to be effective against a number of pathogenic bacteria associated with ornamental fish diseases
  • primarily effective against bacterial infections
  • Clamped fins
  • Swollen eyes
  • Heavy or rapid breathing
  • Patchy coloration

Aquafish: Penicillin

- Treats

  • Broad spectrum bactericidal antibiotic
  • effective against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria
  • Infected eyes
  • Fin and tail rot
  • Skin ulcerations
  • Popeye
  • Columnaris Disease
  • Gill Disease

Some general things you should know when dealing with a disease:

• Raising the temperature, if possible helps take care of a lot of diseases.
• Adding aquarium salt, if your fish allow it, can help fight illness.
• You need to take the carbon out of your filter. It strips most medicines right out of the water.
• If you are using strong medicine and you have very sensitive fish, be careful on the dosage that you put into the tank. You might want to try a half dose if the case isn't too severe.
Change in swimming behavior or corner hiding can also be signs of possible bacterial infection

On going....

 

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