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Old 25-04-2012, 05:48 PM   #171
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Hopefully I am not too late, is there any cure for the condition above? Please advise thank you.

I got a pleco in the tank, only saw it sucked my pnt shell a few times only.
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Old 25-04-2012, 06:10 PM   #172
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That looks more like bacterial infection to me. What you can do now is to give it marine bath for 30 mins, 3-4x a day. Add in 0.3-0.5% of salt into the tank too.

I would recommend bringing it to a vet for medication. It looks pretty serious to me.
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Old 25-04-2012, 06:15 PM   #173
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What do you mean by marine bath? Add salt into a pail with water and let it soak in it? Will yellow powder works? It is still active swimming and eating.
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Old 25-04-2012, 06:36 PM   #174
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marine bath means to soak it in marine water.

For such situation, I will do marine bath. After that, bring it out of water and apply table salt on the affected area and leve it for ~15mins. Then apply yellow powder on the affected area and leave it for another ~15mins before putting it back into the tank.

Most likely a week of baytril (antibiotics) jabs + cleaning it with bacadine (antiseptic lotion) will be better. At least these are what I usually get for infected wounds on PNTs.
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Old 25-04-2012, 06:40 PM   #175
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Sorry but I don't own any marine setup so how do I get marine water? And where can I get the baytril jabs and bacadine?
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Old 25-04-2012, 07:03 PM   #176
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Can get marine salt from some LFS or marine LFS. Baytril n bacidine I got them from the vet. Better to let the vet diagnose and prescribe whatever is better for the PNT.

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Old 25-04-2012, 07:29 PM   #177
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This is what my albino pleco does weekly to my PNT
All over the body

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp-YcWGC_OY
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Old 25-04-2012, 07:32 PM   #178
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This is what my albino pleco does weekly to my PNT
All over the body

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp-YcWGC_OY
won't it get hurt?
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Old 25-04-2012, 07:44 PM   #179
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Do you think seaview sell the marine salt and yellow powder?
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Do you think seaview sell the marine salt and yellow powder?
They may have. I'm not sure.


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