Bath treatment (fishkeeping)

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Bath treatments are easy to carry out disease treatments that originated since the earliest days of goldfish culture. One of the most effective procedure is called the salt bath which is quite effective in eradicating ciliated parasites from the fish. However, there are also useless, thus not recommended, bath treatments such as the use of certain antibiotics or vitamins in the bath. Bath treatment can either be short-term (a "dip") or long-term (from a few hours to 12 or 24 hours or longer).^[1]

Medications used in bath treatments[]

• Salt: the most effective bath treatment, and is used to eliminate ciliated protozoan parasites (including ich in small fish); also used to curb the absorption of nitrite, and to reduce the osmotic pressure exerted by fresh-water on any hole in the skin or gill
• Acriflavine: a powerful dye used for treating protozoans, fungus, lymphocytes, Oodinium and Hexamita
• Chloramine T: a quaternary ammonium compound used to control bacterial and flukes
• : free-form copper used to kill bacteria and parasites
• Dimilin: an insecticide used against Lernea, Argulus and Ergasilus
• Droncit: a pill form of praziquantel used to clear flukes and worms
• Metronidazole: a treatment of choice for Hexamita and Spironucleus
• : used against fluke infestation
• Formalin: this is formaldehyde gas in water used to as a fungicide and treatment against some bacterial infections, ciliated protozoans and flukes
• : a combination of two or three furan antibiotics
• Malachite green: a powerful dye that eliminates parasites
• Methylene blue: a basic thiazine dye used to treat fungal infections
• : a modified version of formalin used to treat flukes
• Potassium permanganate: a caustic alkali that is effective in treating flukes, fungal infections, bacterial , bacterial infections of the body and fins, and ciliated protozoans infestations except ich
• : is lufenuron which is effective against Argulus, Lernea and Ergasilus
• : is which is a deworming medication

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