Javier, you gave it your best but still not easy. So sorry, Pat
Sorry to hear Javier, but you did all you could and in the end it was merciful to end the suffering of the fish. You did the right thing.
Barb
Javier, you gave it your best but still not easy. So sorry, Pat
Your discus are talking to you....are you listening
Well Javier, so far so good. Another week of no darts and all might be good so quietly and carefully keeping the body parts crossed.
Your discus are talking to you....are you listening
Thanks Javier, are your troubles over now?
Your discus are talking to you....are you listening
Jeff,
Neither link proves anything about what I am asking. I know what methemoglobin is. I have worked in hospital laboratories and blood centers for about 20 years. I have run more blood counts and viewed blood smears that I care to mention.
One link did mention that an invitro experiment showed that... (whatever it said, irrelavent to the question)
Well, what happens invitro does not always transfer to invivo applications. A case in point would be the use of heat alone to treat intestinal protozoans. Invetro experiments fared much better than invivo.
Nowhere in any link you supplied nor that I found says that MB transfers the way you say. All that I read where humans are being treated, MB was either taken orrally or via injection.
I have been asking the question for at least 10 years to people in the medical field regarding MB as it applies to fish and no one has given me the mechanism MB uses to kill bacteria, now how does it do what you state, if indeed it does. I see no proof, only an opinion based on an extrapolation.
Thanks for trying. I may never know.
Mat
The only thing I ever seen it do is stain my fingers and keep some fungus off DEAD eggs. though it has helped with a dip for the white pimples(dead flesh). But I have heard/read from many many much more experienced tropical/discus fish keepers than myself that is does help with brown blood
Jim
Hey Jim,
I am not saying it does or does not help. It may very well do so. I am interested in knowing what mechanisms are being used for killing bacteria and absorbtion from the water column. This requires scientific data.
Mat
I understand what you mean. It does make a big difference if you know how something works other than just hearing it does.
I have made and still do make mistakes by dosing and treatments because a few say that it works and going blindly hoping for a result. but when I find something that works I kinda stay with it then adjust according to what you guys say.
Jim