Is it possible to be *too* kind?

[prettypleco]

I am glad you rescued that poor fish. I hope he continues to improve.

 

[Chazwick]

I dont think NoDeltaH2O meant it in that way chaz, Maybe if a fish unfortunately dies, he means you can get better at fish keeping by keeping better and more harder fish.
Maybe...?

I really don't think he meant it the way you think he meant it...

 

[NoDeltaH2O]

I guess I should qualify my previous statements:

Rule #2: Never buy medicine for fish; sick fish die
Rule #3: If a fish looks sick, net it out and euthanize it for the sake of the healthy fish
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If the cost of the medicine is more than the cost of the fish, euthanization is more economical. Obviously, if you have an $80 fish, med that sucker and keep him/her alive.

 

[lordroad]

I've never had any luck with meds. I thought I may have cured a discus of IP with metronidazole, but the fish never properly ate again and I ended up giving it to someone in the reef club who was aware of its ailments and was excited about having a discus in his 55 gallon planted tank.

And to go along with Delta's point #4, that discus was an 80 dollar fish and meds/garlic/etc. kept it alive (maybe), but certainly didn't pull it all the way through.

Same with ich meds. Didn't do anything for me at all.

Only treatments I use are heat and salt for ich and similars.

Like Big Vine, I had neon tetras pinking out and looking squiggly in the spine and I froze them for the good of the others. A necessary variable in the equation of keeping a stable and healthy tank... (these neons picked NTD months and months after acclimatization and introduction)

 

[NoDeltaH2O]

I meant (with respect to Rule #4) that instead of getting all emotionally twisted up, think positively about the situation and see the good in an inevitable fish loss.

 

[ninamarie]

We all learn from mistakes.

I now know better and so far so good.