Polyguard or ich x....

[Ramie]

I have a betta with velvet and possibly something bacterial. I have polyguard and it would address both and says it can be dosed up to 2 weeks....which is good as parasites have the whole life cycle aspect to treating them. But i worry it may be too strong. Ich x i also have on hand but it says it can only be dosed up to 3 days. Does anyone have experience treating velvet with either of these....or just using either of these in any case...how did it go? What did you do? Any seemingly bad side effects?

[Colu]

Ick x is good treatment for velvet  you can use ick x with kanaplex if your using kanaplex in food poly guard only treats ich not velvet  I have used ick x to treat suspected fungal infection had no problems I haven't used poly guard before 

[Ramie]

On 9/26/2021 at 6:05 PM, Colu said:

Ick x is good treatment for velvet  you can use ick x with kanaplex if your using kanaplex in food poly guard only treats ich not velvet  I have used ick x to treat suspected fungal infection had no problems I haven't used poly guard before 

Oddly the one time i used polyguard was to treat velvet...and it worked. It never came back....but about 8 months later that fish had something bacterial going on and i used kanaplex...he seemed to be getting better and all of a sudden had dropsy and died within 48 hours. Idk if the kanaplex was too much for him...but i also wondered if perhaps the polyguard months before had caused perhaps some damage also that the kanaplex just finished off...which is why im wondering if ich x is less intense but also effective. Not trying to kill my current fish trying to save him..as i may have done before. (The current fish didnt get it from my last fish...no cross contamination. Completely different equipment and everything) I also have erythromycin which i could dose him with after the velvet is taken care of. Have you used ich x for velvet or ich? If so did you dose more than 3 days or did you repeat dosing after a number of days? Did it come back?

[Colu]

Ick x is very effective medication I haven't heard of any side effects a lot of people on the forum have used it  successfully and it's shrimp and snails safe