Pimples and Not Hungry

[DiscusDish]

Oh and by the way, a question for the mods/admins. How do I compress my photos or lower their size? All my mobile photos are over a MB and the only photo I have that is under 50KB is peppa. That’s pretty sad. How can I lower my mobile photos to less then 50KB? Thanks

[LizStreithorst]

One of the big guys here says that if you email the pic to yourself it automatically gets resized.

[DiscusDish]

Oh ok. I will try that.

[DiscusDish]

There we go, much better. A picture of my first breeding pair with eggs, sadly they broke up... I will have to buy some more discus so they can all repair. But first I have to get rid of my angels and move my rams to a 27g. Thanks Liz, you helped a lot. I didn’t want peppa pig as my avatar. Lol

[LizStreithorst]

Much better avatar, Dish. Don't you want to tell use your real name so we can call you it rather than your user name? You can go to your profile and put it in it if you want to.

[DiscusDish]

Call me Matt.

[jeep]

I am an RN. We only use HP as an irrigation on sloughy or pusy wounds these days. Swabbing with HP damages the good tissue. HP only fizzes and eats decaying or fungusy tissue. It will irritate good tissue with prolonged exposure but not in your case as it will dilute and cease to be irritating the moment your return your fish to the tank.

Irrigate or flush! Those are the words I was looking for. Thanks Danny!

And Bill also explained why I suggested this method. Swabbing can irritate new tissue.

Another thought... I've seen people use a topical like neosporin or polysporin because the gel will remain in contact longer when in the water...

[danotaylor]

It certainly couldn't hurt to use a topical antibiotic ointment. It would provide a barrier to any bacteria in the water column

[DiscusDish]

Hi, thanks for your advice. She is doing much better, not as much hard breathing and she doesn’t seem to care that this is in her head. One question, I have tetramycin as a spray. I was wondering if it would be toxic to spray on fish? It is a blue/green spray for animals but I have used it on squirrel bites(yes squirrel bites, it’s pretty sad) and it helps stop infection. I am just wondering if this will poison the water or her? It is an antibiotic. Thanks!

Matt

[DiscusDish]

Bump?

[jeep]

I can't say for sure on that one but it's in the tetracycline family so the active ingredient should be fine. You may have to google the specific brand to see what the inert ingredients are. My guess it it's ok but a spray is not as good as an ointment in this case.

[DiscusDish]

Okay, thanks!

[DiscusDish]

I got it from Russia so I had to translate the ingredients. Are they aquarium safe?

oxytetracycline hydrochloride - 4.0 g,
and as adjuvants isopropyl alcohol-35.52 g,
polysorbate 80-0.20 g,
blue peptide V-0.20 g and n-butane - 62.8 g

[DiscusDish]

If this works let me know but for now I will stick to something else for example Polysporyn.

[DiscusDish]

Actually, I just found this. It is erythromycin ointment. Should I use this instead? I will check he ingredients and get back to you.