Re: Re: [RML] Mycosis?

Bruce Hansen (bhansen at ozemail.com.au)
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 07:25:24 +1000

Harro has mentioned other remedies for Columnaris disease (mouth fungus)
and your local fish shop (LFS) may indeed have a selection of these, most
of which they have not tried themselves or if they have no longer do so
because they have found them to be either ineffective or not cost efficient
:-(

I use antibiotics because they work almost every time and I have access to
thgem from my job. Most of the fish I treat are special to me and almost
irreplaceable because I collected them myself and to drive another 5000km
to catch some more is not easily done even if I wished to.

Regards,
Bruce.

Bruce Hansen, ANGFA, caring for our aquatic ecosystems.

Please visit us at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/angfa.htm

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> From: Harro.Hieronimus at t-online.de
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: RE: Re: [RML] Mycosis?
> Date: Thursday, 15 January 1998 4:00
>
>
> >It sounds like you have Mouth Fungus or Columnaris, caused by
Flexibacter
> >columnaris.
> >In my experience overcrowding, insufficient water changes and keeping
> >temperature too high can contribute, so even when you successfully treat
> >with antibiotics it will tend to recur unless you correct the underlying
> >predisposing factors.
> >
> >If you have access to them the antibiotics of choice seem to be
> >Tetracycline or Chloramphenicol.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Bruce.
>
> If you have access to any other fish remedy against columnaris
> (there are several on the market) these are much easier to handle
> and without the risk of an antibiotic cure. Sorry Bruce :-(
> But if you start to treat your fish with antibiotics euthanasia
> is a better way to my opinion.
>
> Harro