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Dropsy? Hopefully not. | 10 comments (10 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Dropsy? Hopefully not. (none / 0) (#9)
by miskairal on Wed Feb 16, 2005 at 08:33:23 PM PST

I think I got mine from a pharmacy. It's a tiny bottle of about 5-10ml and was only like $4-5AUS from memory.

I got a 1ml syringe from the vet and I put the fish in a glass dish with about 300-500ml of it's tank water (use glass as this stuff is mighty strong smelling and plastic absorbs the smell). Keep well away from your tank as I don't know what the clove oil fumes might do to healthy fish.

I add about 1/3 of the syringe full of clove oil and it works within 10 minutes usually although one fish took maybe 15 minutes.

I then put the syringe back in it's special envelope that is labelled so I can never use that same syringe for some other medication measurement.

It really is way easier than doing something more physical.
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Re: Dropsy? Hopefully not. (none / 0) (#10)
by Padders on Wed Feb 16, 2005 at 11:26:25 PM PST

Thanks again!

My mum works at a doctors surgery which is handy :) so I'll get some for future hopeless cases I guess. It does sound alot better than the other options I wouldn't ever really consider.

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