What do you keep in your FISH medicine cabinet?

[cranberry]

It's always after hours, on a weekend or a holiday that the emergent situation arises. I have a tool kit on wheels stocked with everything I could think of.
I'm curious what y'all keep in your medicine chest.

 

[jackri]

Baby tylenol, motrin ummm... nyquil, benedryl, your generic advil/tylenol and probably pepto bismal. Oh and Tums for the wife.
Pretty basic here.

 

[cranberry]

For your fish

 

[jackri]

Well I thought it was an odd question lol.
I honestly don't have any "remedies" in case anything happens that I can think of.

 

[cranberry]

Originally Posted by jackri
http:///forum/post/3193407
Well I thought it was an odd question lol.
But bless your heart for answering.

 

[meowzer]

Originally Posted by Cranberry
http:///forum/post/3193401

For your fish

Ya know....as soon as I read this I was picturing my medicine cabinet at home too

I have quite an assortment of stuff for the fish (since I had the horses)
I'd have to wait till I get home from work to list the stuff though

 

[cranberry]

I changed the title.

 

[sepulatian]

I really don't keep many medications on hand. I have Maracyn 2. I had a bottle of copper and a bottle of Formalin, from when I bought my clowns, but I recently threw them out. I do ALWAYS have extra salt, testing agents, Zoecon and Vitachem on hand though.

 

[ann83]

I don't honestly have everything I should have, and it definitely isn't stored all in one place like it should be. I have some Furan-2, some methylene blue, air pumps (both battery powered and not) and various empty tanks, plastic hitches, syringes & eyedroppers, some cycled sponges in the sump, and a cycled "natural" QT tank (for non-disease disasters, of course), ice packs in the freezer, and clip on fans. The meth blue, the furan, the battery pumps, and the ice packs, are really the only things kept on hand specifically for emergencies.

 

[mastertech]

nothing but refractometer, water and salt.
Well how about you Cranberry?

 

[rcreations]

Nothing really, I haven't had a sick fish in a couple of years. I guess what I keep are different vitamins, I have some AmQuel+ that I used in my QT a while ago, different test kits, refractometer, some calcium, magnesium, pH buffer, AptasiaX.

 

[flower]

Originally Posted by Cranberry
http:///forum/post/3193398
It's always after hours, on a weekend or a holiday that the emergent situation arises. I have a tool kit on wheels stocked with everything I could think of.
I'm curious what y'all keep in your medicine chest.

I have some ich medicine for reefs, a leftover from time past. It didn't work. Other than that, a fish net to get the dead body out if the CUC leaves anything, and they usually don't.
I read in awe when meowzer was trying to save her little sea horse. Injecting it with medicine. I could never do it. I do my very best to keep non-violent critters so they don’t fight. I try and keep them happy and healthy. And if they get sick, their a goner.

 

[al mc]

I have Maracyn, Methylene Blue, and Cupramine for 'medicines' and Selcon Vitamin supplement and Amquel plus. While looking I found an old bottle of Kick Ich I used before I joined this message boards.....time to trash it.

 

[cranberry]

Originally Posted by mastertech
http:///forum/post/3193584
Well how about you Cranberry?
I'm presently going through stuff, preparing for a move, and some of the meds are old. I guess I'm trying to figure out what to replace and what I no longer need.
I think the only thing I don't have is copper....

 

[shrimpy brains]

I don't really keep anything on hand either. But I have a fellow hobbyist nearby who has told me, if I ever need it, she's got it!! So, hopefully, I am covered if I ever need it. (hope I don't need it)

 

[dive girl]

Oh, I'm almost embarrassed to post what I've got. In my garage I had a sink that I removed to install a RODI unit. Above the sink was a cabinet, so it's now a perfect place for all my fish medicines.
I have seahorses and before getting any I did lots of research and got some things for them. I think as a whole, we seahorse keepers are a little obsessive about them.

Then shortly after I got them one became sick and I tried to do everything to save it. Since then I've collected some other things here and there. So, I guess I'm pretty well stocked now and I'm a firm believer that if I have it I won't need it.
Fish Medicine Cabinet Contents
Aralen (chloroquine)
Baytril 22.7mg (enrofloxacin)
Baytril 68mg (enrofloxacin)
Betadine Solution
BiFuran+ (nitrogurazone & furazolidone)
BioBandage
Copper
Clove Oil
Diamox 250mg (acetazolamide)
Panacur (fenbendazole)
FishZole (metronidazole 250mg)
Formalin
Furan-2 (furazolidone & nitrogurazone)
Furanase 500 mg (nifurpirinol)
Gentamycin Sulfate Powder
Hydrogen Peroxide Solution
KanaPlex (kanamycin)
Methylene Blue
Neomycin Oral Solution 200mg/ml
Prazipro (praziquantel)
TripleSulfa (sodium sulfathiazole, sodium sulfamethazine, and sodium sulfacetamide)
Wound Control
Luckily, since I've acculimated all of this I haven't needed it. I have been able to help friends when they needed something.
In January I'm taking a course in Fish Diseases. The college near my home has a Marine Science Program that I caught before it ended

so I took a class last semester and will take two this next semester.

 

[cranberry]

Funny how all the seahorse people have their cabinet stocked. The only thing I don't have on that list is copper and the thing I have extra is MS-222.

 

[jstdv8]

what are the odds that all the things dive girl listed are in alphabetical order?

 

[dive girl]

My seahorse medicine cabinet is much better stocked than my family one. Family I usually tell, "Go get a band aid or suck it up."

Can't help that it's in alphabetical order, it's for my seahorses. (Not the copper of course. I bought that when I was a newbie before I learned about hyposalinity in QT)