[Killietalk] Terminal diseases was SJOs with dropsy?

[Charles Harrison <charles at inkmkr_com>]

Many times we have in our tanks - fish we would 
give the WORLD to see spawned and propagated in 
OUR fish room but they have some minor or major 
problem with a disease or spot of #??# and it 
seems to be taking over the fish or group of 
fishes and won't go away with all the LFS 
treatments or suggestions we try to follow.

Most suggestions hint "The patient probably won't 
make it" and at the same time we offer treatment 
after treatment and manage to lengthen its life a 
few days BUT putting the rest of the fish room at 
risk. A splash from a wet net, a bubble splash of 
contaminated water from the adjacent tank or just 
an innocent mistake and the contamination goes 
from tank to tank and one only wonders where it 
may stop.

I would like to suggest the best, for the most, 
over the longest period of time would be to do in 
the fish and do the best one can to clean things 
up and rinse out the affected (¿ Infected Tanks 
?)  and keep everything else living.

Take Wrights message to heart,
> Parting shot: I just destroy most fish that show 
> dropsy, as my cure rates have been near zero. 
> Only an irreplaceable fish gets heroic 
> treatment, and I may have made it once or twice, 
> but the survivor probably was sterile or over 
> the hill by then. :-( Put effort into the living 
> and accept that 99% of dropsy patients will die.
>
> Good luck, Ron. Wright

Back to change some more water . . .

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