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| Posted | Experience with Pimafix |
| 10-07-2007 09:34 by Alan |
Just had an absolute nightmare with Pima fix have posted the following comments to API will keep you posted on response if any!
"I have been using Pimafix to treat some new fish for mouth fungus, only one of the fish had it initially but as they are medium sized tetras that squable in the way Congo Tetras do I felt it would be best to treat the tank to prevent the spread of the infection. The fish in question are African red eye tetras. Unfortunately since starting treatment on saturday 3 more of the African red eyes have developed mouth fungus and now of the 5 fish I original bought last week 3 have now died and a 4th is likely to be dead by the time I get home from work. The Pima fix has not worked at all I am just thankful that no other fish have been infected with this mouth fungus as now the pimafix is in there I will not be able to treat the tank with a more effective remedy (esha 2000) for about a week after carrying out numerous water changes that will stress the fish further, I only used Pima fix as I thought it would be better to use with the African knifefish I have as well as numerous scaleless catfish some of which I have owned for in excess of ten years and some of which are quite rare in the hobby Chrysichthys so I was not to sure how they would handle a treatment in the tank. I do not normally have to treat diseases as they tend to resolve themselves within a few days but in this case I felt it best to treat to mitigate the risk of it spreading, what a disaster that was! I conclude that Pimafix is a little to harmless to tank inhabitants in that it is harmless to infection as well. Whilst I am impressed with stress coat and stress zyme which I have used in the past I cannot say the same for Pimafix in my opinion it was worse than useless and to my mind 4 fish have died needlessly and one thing I pride myself on is helping fish recover from illness when it rarely occurs and not having any losses at all! This has been an unpleasant blip. That tank is filtered by 2 canister filters and a fluidised sand bed sufficient filtration for a 400 gallon aquarium and the tank contains an additional powerhead to circulate water as all the fish I keep are in most part African river fish and they appreciate the high water turnover, I have kept fish for over 20 years and I have never used such a useless treatment in that time." Don't you hate it when you try a treat a sick fish to stop an infection spreading and the treatment at best does nothing drives me nuts. I was impressed with Melafix but certainly not pimafix won't be using that again. |
| 10-07-2007 12:07 by naiad |
Pimafix is antifungal, and mouth fungus, despite its name, is usually a bacterial infection (Flavobacterium columnare). Melafix is antibacterial, so maybe better for mouth fungus.
Cotton wool disease is caused by a fungus (Saprolegnia) and can be treated with antifungal treatments. Sorry to hear about your fish and hope this helps Lucia |
| 10-07-2007 16:31 by Ray |
I never have had much faith in homeopathic cure-alls,tree oils are supposed to treat a lot of infections,but I think a specific treatment designed to treat a specific disease will usually be the best course of action,wether for people or animals. |
| 10-07-2007 20:44 by Phill Austen |
Columnaris appears to be one of the hardest bacterial infections to treat. My best efforts have been with combination antibiotics. It appears to produce resistance very quickly. |
| 10-07-2007 21:28 by sonia |
you cant judge a medication based on one persons experience, if I were Pimafix i would just write to Alan and say "we are sorry to hear that", maybe give him a voucher for his efforts |
| 11-07-2007 09:31 by Alan |
Pimafix states on the bottle it treats mouth fungus give me some credit I read the label on the bottle! This remedy actual seemed to accelerate the rate of spread of infection I have never seen anything like it in over 20 years of fish keeping.
Naiad I am well aware that mouth fungus despite its name is not fungus I bought the pimafix on the basis that it states it treats mouth fungus. I will keep you all posted anyway the remedy was horrendous plus I'm allergic to it I have been wheezing for a week now ever since I put it in the d@mn tank. |
| 11-07-2007 13:57 by naiad |
I didn't know it says that it treats mouth fungus. If it does, it is misleading, and you are right to complain. It may be irritating the skin of the fish and making them more likely to get infected. |
| 11-07-2007 14:22 by Alan |
Sorry for the tone of my last post having a h e l l of a day today.
The one remaining african red eye seems to be doing well probably because it never developed mouth fungus. So the pimafix wasn't able to accelerate the spread over the fish, bit gutted really I hadn't come across these fish before getting anything other than synos and rift valleys out of africa is quite a challenge it seems I will have to hope some more turn up so I can increase the size of shoal from 1 to 8! |
| 12-07-2007 23:23 by big cats |
PIMA FIX IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR PROBLEMS, IT MAY NOT HAVE SORTED THEM BUT YOU CANT BLAME IT FOR CAUSING ACCELERATION OF A DISEASE, I AM WITH NAIAD ,AND PERHAPS WRITING TO THE MANUFACTURER OR IMPORTER FOR AN EXPLANATION IS IN ORDER |
| 13-07-2007 14:04 by Alan |
Never said it was responsible for introducing it, it came in on one of the red eyes never had a problem introducing a fish with an infection before always in the past eradicated it with esha 2000 sadly shop didn't have any. I have never known a disease to accelerate at such a rate when a treatment is put in the tank it just shouldn't happen any remedy should immediately stop the spread of disease not allow it to multiply at an exponential rate!
Also I have had fish contract mouth fungus before, not in this set up I might add never had it in this tank before, left untreated it will not kill a fish in a day! |
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