List of Fish Sensitive to Medications

[armthehomeless]

I thought I would start a list of fish that are sensitive to medications. Please feel free to add to it, but don't clog it up with random crap. The idea is that this thread would be able to be viewed by people who are about to treat their fish tank with some sort of Medication.

Scaleless or Incompletely Scaled Fish
-All species of botia
-most loaches (ex: clown loach and kuhli loach)
-All Cordydoras species
-Knifefish (ex: Black, Brown, Ghost)
-Sharks (Bala, Red-Tailed, Black, Pangasius)
-Plecos

Scaled fish less than one inch

[TaTeR ToT]

Tetras
synodontis
girraffe catfish
other scaleless catfishes ie;(pictus, pimelodella, porthole)

[PhishPhreek]

Great Idea, but you can do better.

Sensitive to which chemicals / meds ?
How much is too much ?
Are there symptoms to look for ?
what alternate meds will work ?

[armthehomeless]

Great Idea, but you can do better.

Sensitive to which chemicals / meds ?
How much is too much ?
Are there symptoms to look for ?
what alternate meds will work ?

I'm not trying to create a novel here. Most of these fish are sensitive to multiple medications. I'll leave it up to other resources to write a more exact "care guide" for each particular fish. Making all of these specifications would defeat the purpose of have someone look at the list before treating a tank. Suppose I write a 46 page diatribe spewing a plethora of information... it doesn't do any good if nobody reads it.

The idea was/is to look and see if a fish in your tank is on the list and (if one is) seek further information at that point.

It was pointed out by another HFB member (FuzzyDragon09 I think) that a red-tailed shark may not have died if there was a simple list that he/she could have referred to. That was why this thread was started.

[geoff_tropheus]

"Silver-Sided" Tangs - Be careful using praziquantel. I have read instances where dosing with Parasite Clear has caused Calliochromis and Xenotilapia to die.

Always becareful when dosing with powerful meds on fish that you've never dosed before.

[eklikewhoa]

Prazipro has been reported to drop pH in some cases I have read.

[FuzzyDragon09]

I'm not trying to create a novel here. Most of these fish are sensitive to multiple medications. I'll leave it up to other resources to write a more exact "care guide" for each particular fish. Making all of these specifications would defeat the purpose of have someone look at the list before treating a tank. Suppose I write a 46 page diatribe spewing a plethora of information... it doesn't do any good if nobody reads it.

I'd read it.

It was pointed out by another HFB member (FuzzyDragon09 I think) that a red-tailed shark may not have died if there was a simple list that she could have referred to. That was why this thread was started.

Yes and I thank you! :emt_thumbs: I wish I had this earlier but I don't have a TARDIS so... But anyways, thank you. And you can write your book if you want. I'll definitely read it! We could make it a sticky. If you don't want to make it too long we could just stick to writing down the medications that do require smaller doses.

EDIT: Ooh! Another fish group that needs half or partial doses of meds is the Polypterus genus (Bichirs) and the Erpetoichtys calabaricus (Rope Fish). They cannot tolerate anything copper based. Malachite green, victoria green, methyline blue, and ones with formalin should be half doses. Aquarisol and quickcure should be 1/2 to 2/3 and Parasite guard should be 3/4 of a dose. But Pimafix, Melafix, Kanacyn, Maracyn, Maracyn-2 and Metronidazole can be used as full doses. [I've been stockpiling Bichir information from the internet, so that's how I know about this. I just couldn't find any info on Red-Tailed sharks.]