Re: Small disease problem

[Doug Karpa-Wilson <dkarpawi at indiana_edu>]

Certainly the scale of the problem is larger in the fish farming industry,
to be sure, but in fact you could easily create a drug resistant strain in
your tanks, particularly if fish farms have helped introduce any single
example before hand.  Then of course, once you've made the problem worse,
you can then spread the strain around to all of us!   As someone who's
received antibiotic resistant fish from other breeders,  I tend to be
sceptical.  At any rate, neither you nor I have any hard data to say what
the hobbyist contribution to the problem is.

 Trial and error is often effective, but it is certainly more effective
when folks take the time to learn something about diseases and act
appropriately rather than randomly flailing.

I'll leave the question of whether inbreeding is the subject of hysteria to
folks who've got longer experience in breeding killies.  Certainly, it
doesn't seem to me that anyone is much concerned about the problem,
actually.  Nevertheless, it might well pose a serious problem in some
collections.

Doug

>Hi Doug,
>
>       Actually, the reason why so many fish diseases are seemingly resistant
>to drugs is not because of hobbyists doing the best they can to try and treat
>diseases using the information and treatments that are available, but due to
>farms and stores pouring drugs on fish for commercial reasons. An individual
>would be hard pressed to create a resistant strain of anything using the
>means available to him or her. There is an element of chance in even the most
>sophisticated drug treatments -- hence the many drugs used to treat one thing
>-- some work, some don't. Unless one has a perfect plan for treating fish
>diseases that I have never seen, trial and error is our only recourse. Like
>the hysteria over in-breeding, I would hate for anyone to not try and cure
>their fish because they were told they would be contributing to
>drug-resistant illnesses. My trial and error worked so well that one disease
>was gone with one treatment and the other only took three treatments. I
>hardly think my effort led to a medical disaster. We can all sleep in peace.
>
>Robert E.
>
>Robert E.
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Doug Karpa-Wilson
1821 S. Maxwell St.
Bloomington, IN 47401


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