melafix works....

[Ethan25]

Around a year ago, I had an initial problem with my pH readings, and it just ruined my oranda's fins. The pH dropped to below 6, and their fins deteriorated so badly. It took a month to two months to get them back to looking decent.

the same thing happened two weekends ago, and for the past three weekends before that. I thought someone was messing with my tank. I would come back to my aquarium with the orandas having bloody looking fins, red streaks, and you could see holes the size of small marbles in their fins.

I fixed the problem this week by getting the pH back in order, and maintaining it. for the last week and a half. I added melafix each day in the proposed dosage on the bottkle, and I cannot tell that the fish were even sick. the fins have COMPLETELY grown back....even where there were holes in them.

have this stuff on hand.

Woot for Melafix!

[Ichthius]

It's great stuff.

I keep pure tea tree oil (the active ingredient in melafix) on hand for personal use.

If I scape a knuckle or get a cut while working on fish it stops any infection and heals quickly.

Best fishes
David
www.goldfishgarage.com

[tyco4357]

I always have a bottle on hand. I love it.

[Rudy]

Send me a free bottle, I'll refund your shipping and dispose of it properly.

Is it totally useless? Maybe not totally but none of you have mentioned it's negative attributes. It can kill some of your koi.

Don't ask me ... plenty of 'search' articles.

My name is Rudy and I was a user
I realized after loosing my best koi that no matter the name it was a SHOTGUN and this one can add to the problem.

[yooper]

Send me a free bottle, I'll refund your shipping and dispose of it properly.

Is it totally useless? Maybe not totally but none of you have mentioned it's negative attributes. It can kill some of your koi.

Don't ask me ... plenty of 'search' articles.

My name is Rudy and I was a user
I realized after loosing my best koi that no matter the name it was a SHOTGUN and this one can add to the problem.

Rudy, Agree with you 100%

If anyone doubts Rudy, just look up the msds

Was also a user and lost most of my fish (gasping at the water surface), to this great stuff

[Lori Jo]

I have never heard one good thing about Melafix..Ethan's testimonial was the first. I am glad it worked for Ethan but I will never ever buy it.

[Cowiche Ponder]

I have used it quite successfully on koi as well as goldies as well.

[Joey S]

I have it in my kit...it has it's place, but NOT as a first resort treatment. As Ethan said, he had a pH problem and fixed that first. Melafix has its healing properties but will do nothing to correct water problems, cure any parasites or fix bacterial issues. Those issues must be addressed first.

[tracey_shafer]

Any med with teatree oil is a great topical treatment but should NOT be in the water with our wet pets. It coats their gill covers and prevents 02 exchange. Ethan is very lucky his goldies healed, you would be better off with plain old salt.

[PhillyBill]

Did I hear someone open a can of worms? Melafix and Pimafix get the discussion going every time.

I have had positive experience with Melafix. Others have had disasters. I had a wakin with an ulcer/dislodged scale this spring, and it was healed in a week with MF. Just last week, I had a jikin who didn't eat and was hanging first on the bottom, and then in an isolated pocket among the parrot's feather. After three days of MF, he is now eating and schooling. Another jikin exhibiting the same symptoms the week before received no treatment and expired.

Again, the issue lies in the fact that no two ponds have the same biological and chemical makeup. Some ponds can handle the addition of a small amount of organic matter like tea tree oil, but others cannot tolerate it. One situation is not superior to the other - factors like sunlight, algae, type of plants, water temperature, all play a part. Ditto filtration - "over"-filtered ponds can handle a little surge in organic activity better than those that are just adequate.

There is lots of anecdotal but unproven lore about Melafix out there, including the oft-quoted "coats the gills." The extract of tea tree oil used in antiseptic treatments is water soluble to 15%, so I don't think the concentration of less than .04% that is prescribed will coat anything. The notion that it "replaces the slime coat" is also suspect. The argument that its decomposition might lower oxygen levels makes sense, and that should be taken into consideration when adding anything to the water.

I would never add Melafix to hot or marginally aerated water, or in combination with other additives, but when there is no clear reason for a fish's malaise or it has a small wound, I find it the least intrusive treatment.

One thing that has been proven by research is that MF stymies a group of common bacteria known colloquially as "pus" bugs - strep and staph. This is why tea tree oil is used in so many cultures as first aid for scrapes and minor cuts. Birds use my pond for a bath and toilet, and I am sure that I occasionally introduce some of these common human bacteria into the water no matter how many times I wash my hands. Maybe that is why it works for me - I have exactly the problem it addresses.

As usual, everyone's mileage will vary.

[premster]

may be I should try it on my mouth rot koi and see if the mouth grows back .

[madeyna]

I had a koi that jumped out of the pond it was a hot day so he got really drie. His skin fell off and he got covered in a coat of fuzz. The only treament I gave this fish put him in a heated tank in the house with tons of filteration and melafix in the water. It was at least three or four weeks before he could even swim ,I kept him proped up with two filter sponges. I still swear by the stuff. The fuzz he developed was a protective coating fish can get while regrowing large areas of skin.

[IMSALSMOM]

I aquired a small longfin with the bottom half of his tail gone all the way to the body. Used melafix and it grew back.

[rainblood]

may be I should try it on my mouth rot koi and see if the mouth grows back .

[Ethan25]

maybe it is for certain conditions. I have my aquarium triple filtered, and probably triple aerated....fish have never gasped at the surface if I have used the correct dosage. It would take a LOT of melafix to serve a huge pond...and I would never use it on a complete pond application. For the goldies, it's fine....

[Ichthius]

I always use it in a clean aquarium. Dumping a bunch into a pond that has issues could be where some of the losses are coming from.

I've used it to recover fish that literally had all their scales and most of their fins removed from an aggressive cohort. The fish recovered in 1.5 months and you couldn't even tell it apart from the siblings that didn't get the ruff treatment.

The only fish I've seen that had an instant lethal result was a voltan lionnfish in low salinity.

Best fishes
David
www.goldfishgarage.com

[premster]

Dude . I got nothing to lose . No body believes his mouth will grow back .

[Ethan25]

Dude . I got nothing to lose . No body believes his mouth will grow back .

might as well try. I'd put it in a solitary tank though with good filtration to give it a chance.

[Luck]

I have had positive experience with Melafix. Others have had disasters. I had a wakin with an ulcer/dislodged scale this spring, and it was healed in a week with MF. .

I had a sarassa with the same thing and with good clean water it healed all by it's self in about four day's.

[Graham]

fixed the problem this week by getting the pH back in order, and maintaining it. for the last week and a half. I added melafix each day in the proposed dosage on the bottkle, and I cannot tell that the fish were even sick. the fins have COMPLETELY grown back....even where there were holes in them.

Ethan did it cross your mind that fixing your water and maintaining decent water allowed the fish to fix itself. GF and Koi are quite capable of repairing them themselves when given a chance in decent water.

The ''fixes'' are one step above snake oil and can cause more problems than they'll ever fix.