GrahamC Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 Doctors are not required to see patients before prescribing. I attended a small telemedicine discussion in Sydney over the weekend on how they wanted to provide services for poorly serviced areas. I presume that this will happen in NZ as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F15hguy Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 dunno why but all my profile details have disappeared, fixed now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Discusguru Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 Fish don't get a 100% water change all the time in a river because there are also fish upstream. What I meant was that wunder tonic is not a magic med but is useful for treating quite a few ailments other than fungus (such as whitespot, velvet etc). Myself I prefer to use a specific med for a specific problem. "Use the least amount of the least toxic med that will do the job properly." I agree that with discuss there are meds in addition that would be useful. Perhaps one of the discus experts such as discusguru might let us know what would be best for what. The medication I have on hand for discus are Metro (Hex), Prazi (Flukes), Flubendazole (worming), Furan2 (antibiotic), salt and PP. Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henward Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 you should be asking the right question "How do i insure my fish dont get sick" Get extra filtration, double it. or if its a huge tank, ad 50% more bio media capacity. that will prevent spikes that generally cause disease. add an extr heater, double your heater wattage, this ensures temperature is optimal always, uses little to no extra power, in fact might even save you power. temp flux causes disease Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricketman Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 you should be asking the right question "How do i insure my fish dont get sick" Get extra filtration, double it. or if its a huge tank, ad 50% more bio media capacity. that will prevent spikes that generally cause disease. add an extr heater, double your heater wattage, this ensures temperature is optimal always, uses little to no extra power, in fact might even save you power. temp flux causes disease + regular W/C's... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 Get extra filtration, double it. or if its a huge tank, ad 50% more bio media capacity. that will prevent spikes that generally cause disease. This is an interesting assertion. I was under the impression that the microbes scale to the amount of "food" available. So, even if you had huge capacity, it just won't be fully colonized as there isn't the energy source available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoppers Posted August 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 This is an interesting assertion. I was under the impression that the microbes scale to the amount of "food" available. So, even if you had huge capacity, it just won't be fully colonized as there isn't the energy source available. So a sump can be too big? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 I suspect that there's a point where all you are adding is more water volume rather than contributing to biological filtration. However, you could grow algae as nitrate reducers as there isn't normally a shortage of nitrate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 So a sump can be too big? only if it won't fit in the space you have for it the extra media will allow space for microbes to scale up as more"food" becomes available Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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