is a cure with sera mycopur safe for my botia's ?

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chalamala
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is a cure with sera mycopur safe for my botia's ?

Post by chalamala » Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:27 pm

Hi !
Some of my barbs suffer fungus disease. I want to cure it with Sera Mycopur (contains acriflavine and copper sulfate), is this safe for my Botia's ? (kubotai and striata)
With best regards,

:?: Robert
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Re: is a cure with sera mycopur safe for my botia's ?

Post by chalamala » Sun Feb 08, 2015 6:22 am

No reactions... Does nobody have an idea ? :(
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Re: is a cure with sera mycopur safe for my botia's ?

Post by Diana » Mon Feb 09, 2015 11:00 pm

General recommendation is to treat Loaches with medicines at half strength.
I know the Loaches are not the target here, but since they are in the tank, that is the strongest you can use the meds.

Alternate method:
Move the sick fish to a separate tank and treat with the full dose. This would also be safer for your beneficial bacteria in the main tank.
38 tanks, 2 ponds over 4000 liters of water to keep clean and fresh.

Happy fish keeping!

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Re: is a cure with sera mycopur safe for my botia's ?

Post by mikev » Mon Feb 09, 2015 11:46 pm

OK.... my 2c:

Firstly, I would not ever treat loaches with Copper-containing medications, not half-dose, not 1% dose. The specs for mycopur say
100 ml of
sera mycopur
contain:
acriflavine 210 mg
cupric chloride 11.8 mg
cupric sulfate 71.9 mg
aqua purificata ad 100 ml
http://www.akvaryumculuk.biz/sera_mycopur.pdf

All loaches are sensitive to copper, there are at least two mechanisms of how copper harms them, and making exact predictions is not possible -- some species are considerably more sensitive than others, and pH is a factor.

So, if anything, Diana's plan B.

But let's go to the beginning for a moment: just what are you treating? Just what is "fungus disease?"

Is this flex (columnaris) per chance? Then you can use a medication that does not contain copper... kanamycin or furan2 would usually work... just watch the cycle. If antibiotics are not available on your end, acriflavine alone tends to work, and it is safe to fish (not to the biofilter!)

or is this true fungus? Uncommon, but happens.... this is considerably trickier to cure, but still copper is not needed.

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Re: is a cure with sera mycopur safe for my botia's ?

Post by chalamala » Wed Feb 11, 2015 12:05 pm

Thanks for your answers !

I don't know if it was true fungus... But I could handle it with salt. Now it's allright ! :D
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Re: is a cure with sera mycopur safe for my botia's ?

Post by mikev » Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:21 pm

Fantastic! congratulations!

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