My Deadly Hospital Tank

paddyob · #1 10-30-2010, 09:35 PM

Keep in mind also... medicating can make things worse for your fish in the long run by weakening immune systems and what not. On top of that.... medicating for the sake of medicating is never a good option. Would you take meds yourself if they were not necessary?

fishoholic · #2 10-31-2010, 02:06 PM

Hospital tanks are difficult to keep water parameters in check so that could be the issue but for some reason (don't know why because it's supposed to be safe to use on saltwater fish) whenever I have tried to treat a saltwater fish with melafix if has killed the fish within a few days. I have noticed that something in melafix seems to make it hard for saltwater fish to breathe properly.

Murminator · #3 10-31-2010, 04:25 PM

When I have a fish that is taking a beating usually a smaller fish I just put it is a floating breeder trap (the biggest one I could find) and attach it to the side. It separates the fish and lets him heel with stress him out as much than moving him to a new tank it also help with the aggression between them because they both know where each other is and they will get used to each other. I have heard people using a large tupperware container with holes drilled in it also.
If I have to dose a fish I set a hospital tank with 75% of the old water from the tank it came from powerhead, heater couple chunks of pvc and a rock or 2 from my sump.

If a clown was bulling an angel in a 90G it think it was already on it's way out unless it is a huge maroon clown and tiny angel but an angel will just hide in the rocks and clown won't venture into them and a clown will not swim far to bully anything

cwatkins · #4 10-31-2010, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by fishoholic

whenever I have tried to treat a saltwater fish with melafix if has killed the fish within a few days. I have noticed that something in melafix seems to make it hard for saltwater fish to breathe properly.

This is interesting to know. It seems my experience reflects yours.

You're right, I should have just picked up a guppy breeder container and put him in if for a week or two while he healed.

fishoholic · #5 11-01-2010, 03:49 AM

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Originally Posted by cwatkins

This is interesting to know. It seems my experience reflects yours.

Ya I don't know what it is about melafix but for some reason it seems awhile after adding it saltwater fish start breathing really heavy then die.

marie · #6 11-01-2010, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by fishoholic

Ya I don't know what it is about melafix but for some reason it seems awhile after adding it saltwater fish start breathing really heavy then die.

The tea tree oil in it causes weird bacteria blooms to happen which I think rapidly depletes the oxygen in the water

cwatkins · #7 11-03-2010, 07:36 PM

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The tea tree oil in it causes weird bacteria blooms to happen which I think rapidly depletes the oxygen in the water

Which could explain the opaqueness in the water and the heavy breathing...

Hindsight is 20-20, but I should have just put him in a large breeder container and left him in the tank. I dose all food with Selcon and Garlic, so without any obvious disease, other than the fin issues and the "not so well" look, he probably would have recovered with the less stressful environment.