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Originally posted by Gumby
Day 3 of drugging my fish. (using Marycin and halfing the dossage so I can treat longer) |
I'm not entirely confident in halfing a dose of any medication unless it's a pain killer and you're half the size of a typical person.
If I remember correctly Marycin is an antibiotic, so what you're treating is a bacterial infection?
Halfing a medication can give the organisim causing the infection the opportunity to develop a strain of itself that's immune to the treatment.
You read or hear about this with human diseases that are commonly treated with Penicillin. Some people don't use their antibiotic for the full treatment time, or they skip doses, etc., and the bacteria mutates and is no longer treatable by penicillin and you have super infections
If whatever is infecting your fish develops a mutated strain after the 3'd day of treatment the rest of the treatment becomes nullified and you have a horrible organisim preying on your livestock. Overtreating with a correct dose can also lead to your livestock losing their beneficial bacteria.
I hope this makes sense to you.
Alexis
*edited for grammar, sentence structure and the way it sounded when typed
