NFG protocol
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You’d have to measure it out yourself, or find the chemical formula and do the math. Since it’s a combination of drugs, that won’t be too accurate though.
Only way is to weigh an 1/8th of a spoon. I have nfg and a scale, I could do it for you, but I also have a 6 month old baby and a sick 2.5 year old at home while wife is out of town for work
4FordFamily
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Agree. Good advice. NFG is a fantastic drug!
Bthomas
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Fair enough. I will try my best to do the water change every day. If I am unable tho and have to skip a dose because of that will the treatment still be effective
Big G
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Like any antibiotic, you and your fish should always take the full dose. You run the risk of letting the disease rebound and then possibly becoming immune and less effective with less than the therapeutic level.
50% WC every 48 hours is preferable to missing a dose. I just put a pink spot goby with a mouth injury through 11 days with that schedule in a 10g tank and her lip issues cleared up right around day 7. Kept going for full course though, as you should for anti- microbial medications.
Don’t skip doses, and if you can compensate by using a bigger tank, try to.
Don’t skip doses, and if you can compensate by using a bigger tank, try to.
As a point of knowledge- the half life for nitrofurazone is 5 hours. The water change is mainly to remove the methylene blue- which can cause problems as it builds up, since it doesn’t degrade very fast. Each dose of NFG pushes the methylene blue higher and higher - water changes keeps it in check
Bthomas
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Ok I should be able to handle that if not every day. One more question.. I work varying shifts so I'm not going to be home to dose at the same time every day, should I make sure there's been at least 24 hours between doses or not go over 24 hours?
With the half life being 5 ish hours you could dose maybe up to 5-6 hours early one day, but I wouldn’t push it more than 26 hours to the next dose.
I feel comfortable saying that Based on experimental administration of similar half life drugs to lab mice as part of my job
Bthomas
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That will be tough..
If I decide I'm unable to do that and go with kanaplex/metroplex/furan-2 instead is it just as important to do the water change between each dose there? Is that roughly the same window as far as dosing on the same hour each time?
Dosing the ‘Trifecta’ is more work overall, in my opinion, and not as effective. Because your dosing three with different half life kinetics, dosing at the same time each day is a bit more important .
The pink spot goby I talked about had a 10 day course of Trifecta but still had the mouth infection. Only nfg cured it.
Here’s the schedule I used-
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/dosing-the-trifecta.386582/
Bthomas
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So looking at my schedule I would have one day where I would have to do the dose about 30 hours after the previous dose. I should be able to do all others between the window that u gave me. With this one late dose hurt anything?
That’s really no different to people dosing in the morning one day, then the evening the next. I’d guess there are a number of people that do that due to schedules.
It isn’t ideal, but 6 hours late is better than missing it entirely. If it’s that one dose, it’s unlikely to be a problem.
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