Be REALLY careful just adding GC to food. If you don't properly control the amount of medication, the metronidazole, being very bitter, will put the fish off its feed in a heartbeat. The fish then become gun shy, and often won't feed on that food again, even if untreated.
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Surprisingly it doesn’t rlly care. It eats anything that looks like an omega one pellet. I have two other foods on hand in case it decides to stop eating. As for the GC lacing, I just followed HF recipe, but how would you theoretically go about dosing proper amounts if calculating the mass is not feasible? From my experience dosing the water is usually a hit or miss, but that could just be Bc I’m not doing it correctly. I’m curious to know about how one would go about dosing oral medication if I don’t have the means to calculate mass?Be REALLY careful just adding GC to food. If you don't properly control the amount of medication, the metronidazole, being very bitter, will put the fish off its feed in a heartbeat. The fish then become gun shy, and often won't feed on that food again, even if untreated.
Here is a link to a sticky I wrote about how difficult it is to dose medicated foods properly:
Proper Dosing of Medicated Foods
Proper Dosing of Medicated Foods Jay Hemdal c. 2020 Oral medications are an excellent way to target internal diseases of fishes. Marine fish absorb aquarium water, so in certain cases, they “drink” enough medication from the water to effect a cure. However, freshwater fish actively export...
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