Re: Wild Rams

[Brian Ahmer <ahmer.1@osu.edu>]

>  In
> particular it's a waste of time & money to use
> penicillin in most cases. Penicillin is a
> gram-positive antibiotic and virtually no
> bacterial fish disease is caused by gram-positive
> bacteria.


Penicillin works on Gram-negatives too.  But many bacteria are 
already resistant to it.  It's a little worrisome too, to be dumping 
hundreds of gallons of antibiotic-ridden water down the drains.  In 
most cases clean water is all a fish needs to cure itself.  In 
extreme cases antibiotics are necessary.  I isolated two different 
bacteria off of a betta that fin rot.  Both bugs were resistant to 
several antibiotics even though I had never used those antibiotics in 
my fish room.  Scary!
--

Brian Ahmer
ahmer.1@osu.edu
http://www.angelfire.com/or/biggestbri


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