Re: Effect of medications

• To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
• Subject: Re: Effect of medications
• From: Stephen.Pushak at saudan_HAC.COM
• Date: Tue, 19 Sep 95 14:41:19 PDT
• Cc: HeathDA at agresearch_cri.nz
• In-Reply-To: <199509190344.XAA01443 at looney_actwin.com>; from "Aquatic-Plants-Owner at actwin_com" at Sep 18, 95 11:44 pm
• Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]

Derek wrote:
> I was planning to treat an outbreak of gill flukes in my Discus tank with 
> formaldehyde but I do not know if this is a safe medication to use in the 
> presence of plants.

I don't know if formaldehyde is safe or not; here is another method for
treating fish with diseases: Setup a small tank with a bubble cannister
filter (the old fashioned ones with carbon & floss). Replace the carbon
with gravel from your tank. This should contain enough nitrogen fixing
bacteria to keep ammonia in check. If you have the luxury of a few days
your can put the canister into your main tank to start a bacteria culture
on the filter floss. This serves two purposes: quarantines infected 
fishes and isolates the medicines to the treatment tank.  I read this 
suggestion on the *.aquaria FAQ to give proper credit.

Steve

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