[marco]

Quote: Originally Posted by B.Scott John, The vet may prescribe a single course of treatment and only prescribe those drugs that have been approved for a specific treatment. Do you wish to anesthitize a fish? Then you may buy a single treatment of MS-222. If you widh to use benzocane or 2-Phenoxyethanol or even Eugenol, you are stuffed. While these products do an excellect job they are NOT APPROVED for use with koi. To do so would be breaking the law. The same applies for most antibiotics. If you want Nufloor, Azactam or any other in a large arsenal of antibiotics you will have to buy them on the black market because they are not approved for fish. B.Scott

Hi Scott, it's not so complicated, if a treatment has been aproved for fish (MS-222 for exp) the vet won't be allowed to give or to use an other one wich is not aproved (benzocaïne) BUT if no treatment at all has been aproved for a specific pathology, the vet will be allowed to use a product that he think suitable ,as soon as the animal won't be eaten.

I don't know what will be the solution for most of the hobbist, maybe some koïclub could have a vet between the members that will find a local solution.
I agree that most of vet doesn't know a lot about koi pathology, but I suppose a lot of them will be interested to find discover something new (i meen only interest, not money). Maybe they will know a little more about drugs then the guy who take care of a petshop or who sell the drugs at the moment.
Any way that could also stop some people to use drugs like salt and peper in a kitchen, without knowing their toxicity.

IMHO the solution could be in the koïclub organisation.

Marco