Title: Septicemia | Tropical Fish Keeping
Headings: Septicemia
Categorized | Bacterial Infections, Featured Articles, Tropical Fish Diseases, Tropical Fish Keeping
Septicemia
Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia – VHS
PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS:
Septicemia
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Content: The best way to do this is by performing regular water changes to keep toxins at bay. Septicemia can also be contracted when fish are fed live and/or frozen foods infected with food born pathogens; usually associated with poor quality tubifex and blackworms. TREATMENT: We usually recommend treating bacterial diseases with antibiotics* sparingly, however, with Septicemia their initial use is strongly recommended. Septicemia in the blood can quickly overcome an infected fish and an antibiotic treatment regimen is the quickest and most effective way to treat this disease. Although most aquarium antibiotics are made to dissolve in the tank water where they can be absorbed by the fish, Septicemia is an internal bacterial infection that requires a medicated antibacterial fish food to better target the infection. Amoxicillin, gentamicin, ofloxacin and sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim are the drugs of choice for the treatment of Bacterial Hemorrhagic Septicemia. Aquatronics Osymanna flakes have been around since 1980 and are extremely effective for treating freshwater and marine fish. Soaking pellets in a concentrated mixture of Mardel’s Maracyn and Maracyn 2 is also an effective method of treating Septicemia.