Melafix or any med to recommend in shrimp tank?
Need your recommendation for medication.
2 ft densely planted tank with shrimps. Recently put in 5 Choc gourami and 1 got torn apart in a week. Quarrelsome buggers for such a cute little thing. I thought a school will limit aggression and the density of vegetation will keep them living in harmony but apparrently I've miscalculated its territorial range. Now second one has its tail chewed and the damaged tail has rotten to half its size. I cannot catch them out even in its weakened state, as it's still too fast for my net, and I don't intend to be uprooting crypts in my effort to catch it out, so I'm asking for recommendations for a medication that will help stop the infection and also be ok for shrimps.
I've dosed Oxycure but it didn't seem to stop the tail from rotting further. Would anyone with experience treating fin rot in a plant tank with shrimps comment if melafix be safe and effective? If so, what is the dosage? Should I be dosing according to the bottle or should I half the dose to favour the shrimps? Also, what's the difference between melafix and pimafix?
Thanks for reading.
Warm regards,
Lawrence Lee
brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.
Philippians 4:8
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