| The KHA vets will tell you that antibiotics are vastly overused, which is why they try to keep it in THEIR hands instead of allowing hobbyists to decide. And I know people who can get their hands on injectibles and use them every time a fish looks "off". Or they reach for the heavy hitters . . . the fish gets over the infection and all seems well. Then, several months later, it goes into a decline. No external physical reasons. Water's good; no parasitic evidence.
If/when a necropsy is performed, the internal organs are a mess. The fish died from organ failure, and the owner tosses his hands in the air and asks, WHY? A history of the fish reveals injectibles used heavily and/or haphazardly in the recent past.
I don't think it's coincidence. Injectibles have their place, but they're used entirely too often for the wrong reasons.
But then again, what do *I* know???
Lee B. |