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Seven Tips for Improving the Effectiveness of Oral Fish Medication

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1. Distinguish between prevention and treatment, and the key lies in prevention. Fish living in water have hidden illnesses that are difficult to detect. Once dead fish are found, the losses are great, and treating fish diseases is relatively difficult, bringing many inconveniences. Therefore, the guiding principle of "prevent first when there is no disease, treat early when there is disease, and prevention is more important than treatment" should be actively implemented, and the concept of giving priority to preventive medication should be established. 2. Cleverly combine Chinese and Western medicines. Chinese herbal medicines for treating fish diseases have a long duration of efficacy, few side effects, and low prevention and treatment costs; Western medicines have the characteristics of rapid efficacy and high cost. Practice has proved that when there is therapeutic effect

1. Distinguish between prevention and treatment, and the key lies in prevention. Fish living in water have hidden illnesses that are difficult to detect. Once dead fish are found, the losses are great, and treating fish diseases is relatively difficult, bringing many inconveniences. Therefore, the guiding principle of "prevent first when there is no disease, treat early when there is disease, and prevention is more important than treatment" should be actively implemented, and the concept of giving priority to preventive medication should be established.

2. Cleverly combine Chinese and Western medicines. Chinese herbal medicines for treating fish diseases have a long duration of efficacy, few side effects, and low prevention and treatment costs; Western medicines have the characteristics of rapid efficacy and high cost. Practice has proved that mixing certain Western medicines into effective Chinese herbal medicines can both rapidly improve efficacy and reduce costs. For example, grind Chinese herbal medicines such as the "three yellows" (rhubarb, Coptis chinensis, and Phellodendron amurense), water pepper, Andrographis paniculata, and Euphorbia humifusa into powder, and mix them into Western medicines such as Huanjie, Kejun

Wei, and Yubikang, improving efficacy by nearly 5-10 times compared with using Chinese herbal medicines alone. Another example: when parasites are found on fish bodies, pine needles, duck-foot leaves, Chinese tallow leaves, eucalyptus leaves, and Buding leaves can be placed in the pond to soak and poison the parasites and bacteria, with lasting effect, low recurrence, and few side effects.

3. Cleverly calculate the amount of fish medicine. According to the average amount of bait fed in the pond over a period of time (on the premise that the fish are growing normally and have not developed disease, measured as being just eaten up with a slight surplus the next day), multiply by 20 times to calculate the amount of fish stored in the pond, thereby estimating the medication amount. For example: if 600 jin of concentrated feed is routinely fed every day, then multiply by 20 times (600 x 20 = 12000 jin), which means the fish storage in this pond is about 120

00 jin or so, and then calculate the medication amount based on the fish storage.

4. Cleverly add feeding attractants. Fish are relatively sensitive to the taste of salt and sugars. In order to stimulate the fish's desire to feed, an appropriate amount of feeding attractant can be added to the medicated bait. For example, make a feeding attractant from strongly fragrant Chinese herbal medicines such as star anise, clove, and garlic, supplemented with some salt. The appropriate added concentration is 10%-20%.

5. Cleverly use binders. The strength of a binder's effect in solidifying the medicine directly affects how long the medicated bait remains formed in water. If the medicated bait remains formed for a long time, the fish's feeding time is prolonged, the amount consumed increases, and this directly strengthens the prevention and treatment of fish diseases; if the medicated bait remains formed for a short time, the fish medicine disperses quickly in water, the fish's feeding time is short, the amount consumed is small, and the effect on preventing and treating fish diseases is weakened. This not only wastes fish medicine but also delays the best timing for preventive treatment of the disease.

Therefore, choose highly sticky @#@245@#@ powder, cassava flour, glutinous rice flour, etc. as binders. The binder should account for about 40%-50% of the medicated bait feed.

6. Cleverly choose carriers. If plain fish medicine is placed in water, fish rarely eat it. Only by cleverly combining fish medicine with a carrier can efficacy be improved and the best effect in preventing and treating fish diseases be achieved. The most suitable carriers are paste-like substances such as corn, soybean, wheat, peanut bran, rice bran, and wheat bran.

7. Cleverly feed the medicated bait. Whether the method of feeding medicated bait is appropriate will directly affect the efficacy of the fish medicine. Practice has proved that before feeding medicated bait, first stop feeding for 1 day to make the fish school hungry. On the second day, when the weather is normal, feed the prepared medicated bait only at 9 a.m. (in some cases 4-5 p.m.) to achieve the purpose of preventing and treating fish diseases.

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