On 22 Jul 2003 07:53:04 -0500, "Lee Brouillet" wrote:

I hadn't thought of separating it -- duh! BTW, if you don't have one, a
digital postal scale is a cheap way to get around the expensive gram scales.
Mine does ounces or grams, including tare (so you don't include the weight
of your container when you're measuring), and goes up to 5 lbs. I think it
cost about $30.00 or so. FYG, if you didn't see it anywhere, Doc J says you
can strain the mix through a coffee filter to remove excess slime and fish
poo, etc. and refrigerate the mix to get about a month out of it.

Course if you're still having trouble after a month...... ;o) The dip seems
to stay fairly clean and doesn't make the fish shed its slime coat that I
can tell. I really wonder if Doc J came up with these ideas, but hasn't
experienced them, because.....

the spray method will allow the mixture to go further, for those on a budget.

just forget this. To use the spray method you must sedate the fish and
Finquel isn't cheap either, in liquid form has a storage of up to a week at
room temp, so you can get thru a treatment on the same container.... again,
if the fish doesn't contaminate it with feces.

I did this method first, pulled weakest fish out, sedated, sprayed and kept
moist for 2-3 minutes, put into wake up water, dead as a door nail. I
worked on it for 15 minutes with airstone all but stuck in its mouth.

Next fish, sedated, sprayed it and 1 minute into treatment it wakes up. It
flipping and a flopping all over the hot tub cover. Meds & slime going all
over me, the hot tub cover, the house & window. It's one thing to hold a
fish that is wet & slimy, but when covered with this medication, there is
no holding it. I was lucky just to get a grip as it flipped off the edge of
the hot tub and stopped struggling. Had it continued it would have gone
behind the hot tub, on to the dusty cement and I would have had the devil
of a time getting it out from behind there. Gives me shivers just to think
about it. If you chose this method, sprayed it inside a tub.

Personally though, it just not worth going thru the sedating procedure,
imo. Not to mention all those containers need to be very close in temp &
pH, or one just adds more stress.

There is another couple in the club who feel that there might be counter
indications (is that the correct term?) using Finquel & Tricide-Neo. That
they cause an adverse reaction. Their theory is only based on a leather koi
that went thru the Finquel into the dip and came out filleted.... the wife
said he left it in the dip 10 minutes and the directions say no longer than
5. So I have to verify that. Then there is my experience, but both fish
were pretty far along in their problems by the time I got set up and the
meds in the mail. Thus, if anyone else results are different, I'd like to
hear about it. ~ jan

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