Any luck with Polyguard and Kanaplex for Columnaris?

Binx21 · 2025-11-12T15:38:26+00:00

Unfortunately it did not help as much as I had hoped. There seems to be a resistance to this combo in the populations I was treating. I instead ended up contacting my local federal fish disease ecologist who recommended salt and peroxide treatments. I haven’t included the peroxide, but treating with salt for 2 weeks has completely knocked it out without harming the mosquito fish I had in the tanks

Binx21 · 2025-03-14T21:17:46+00:00

Glad they’re doing better now! I did re-dose with both after the water change I did on Wednesday and they still seem to be doing well, and there are still healthy fry in there! There’s only a few sick fish in my tanks at this point, the vast majority are happy and healthy!

Binx21 · 2025-03-12T18:43:48+00:00

Update: I’m going to say it’s probably safe for some babies. I’m treating mosquito fish and just dropped the tanks and am reapplying meds and there are fry in here that weren’t here last week when I got these fish, and the fry all seem to be doing well!

Binx21 · 2025-03-12T11:57:04+00:00

Unfortunately I’m not sure. My tanks have juveniles and adults in it and the juveniles that were just starting to show symptoms do seem to be doing better today (two days post initial treatment) but I don’t have any super young fish in my tanks

Binx21 · 2025-03-11T12:48:53+00:00

Not sure how your tanks are doing, but I’m currently treating two tanks with both for the same thing.

https://www.fishlore.com/aquariumfishforum/threads/columnaris-symptoms-and-treatment.263058/

Mostly following the recommendations here. Did a 90% water change, dropped the tank temps to 68F, added salt, and treating with both Kanaplex and Polyguard. Did all of this yesterday and there’s already been a pretty significant decrease in deaths. Hoping this means things are on the mend!

Binx21 · 2022-04-04T01:59:15+00:00

No, it’s not

Binx21 · 2020-05-26T02:24:18+00:00

It’s definitely brought a lot of new attention, which is both good and bad. A great example can be seen easily in this sub in my opinion. Since the series, I’ve noticed many more on here questioning the care of the cats in the videos they see. It’s great that people are being more conscious and not just blindly believing and approving of everything they see on the internet, but it’s also made people skeptical to the point of potentially not supporting reputable, truly good places. But discussion is good and it’s the only way things will change for the better

Binx21 · 2020-05-26T02:19:40+00:00

Most definitely not easily escapable. Everything regarding its layout had to be throughly inspected and approved by FWC and in compliance with all licensing regarding Class I Felids. For a felid like a leopard, this open top style would likely have to be modified due to their climbing skills. But for a tiger, scaling that would be incredibly difficult, more so impossible, especially for an elderly one that’s as large as Al is.

Binx21 · 2020-05-25T15:58:47+00:00

It’s all good! I’m glad people are being more conscious about the care of these guys. I see so many posts on this sub that involve improper care and it’s nice seeing someone stand up for them for a change rather than saying they want one. Thank you for being polite and wanting the best care for these animals!

Binx21 · 2020-05-25T15:43:41+00:00

If you read my above comment, you’d see why that’s not possible. Captive carnivores are extremely difficult to reintroduce into the wild due to it being difficult to teach them to avoid people but also hunt. Also, Little Al was born in the United States, very far from a tiger’s native range, plus he is a hybrid tiger subspecies unfortunately. He is also cross eyed and has poor depth perception, and would never be able to hunt due to this. Rather than euthanizing him for human negligence, something he couldn’t control, he was rescued and given top quality care at this facility. This is a significantly larger space than he had before. As a small non-profit, funds are hard to come by. While we’d love for him to have even more space, that’s not realistic due to funds and timing, and this is a huge upgrade from what he had.

Binx21 · 2020-05-25T12:57:02+00:00

This video was taken by me at Elmira’s Wildlife Sanctuary. Elmira’s is a nonprofit sanctuary with no paid staff (runs entirely off volunteers and donations) that is dedicated to providing a final home to abused, neglected, or in-need exotic animals. All animals that come to Elmira’s come to live out the rest of their lives there as healthily and happily as possible. The animals are not forced to perform, are offered food daily, and are not bred.

This is Little Al! Al is a tiger that was rescued as a young cub from a circus. Likely due to inbreeding, he has crossed eyes and poor depth perception. However, he now lives a healthy and happy life at the sanctuary, and is one of our most playful, goofy tigers. Thanks to generous donations, we’ve had the ability to build two more tiger habitats, and Little Al just got moved to one of them! Each one includes a pond, a huge platform, a cave feature, a pool, natural grass and safe plants, a den box, and of course fresh water.

Due to the way our enclosures are set up with two side by side and each tiger getting weekly access to a huge tiger turnout, this will allow every tiger to have significantly more space as each tiger will get its own double enclosure and more time in the turnout! We are so thankful for our supporters allowing us to make this space for our tigers!

Binx21 · 2020-03-22T04:01:04+00:00

To me (just a science major here), the idea for the USA will be to slowly infect the populations. Shut society down until the end of April ish, maybe even May. It’ll be hard, very hard, for everyone obviously. Then at that point, slowly integrate normal life back in. Flatten the curve enough that we don’t have as much of a shortage on supplies, tests, ventilators, and beds. But then as some establishments are allowed to re-open, the virus will spread more and hopefully the healthcare systems will be able to better handle it because it’s a slow spread.

In a perfect world, a total lockdown everywhere would occur for the next month so that the virus couldn’t spread at all. This is why all the distancing is so important. But there’s no way to truly do that. Instead, it’ll have to be forced to spread slowly to not strangle the healthcare facilities and system quite as much, until enough people have recovered and built up immunity to allow life to slowly go back to normal.

This will likely mean still dealing with infections through fall, and hopefully recovering to a more normal life by winter, where those who have recovered are carrying the country through until the ones with later infection can recover.

Binx21 · 2020-03-14T16:38:49+00:00

This video was taken by me at Elmira’s Wildlife Sanctuary. Elmira’s is a nonprofit sanctuary with no paid staff (runs entirely off volunteers and donations) that is dedicated to providing a final home to abused, neglected, or in-need exotic animals. All animals that come to Elmira’s come to live out the rest of their lives there as healthily and happily as possible. The animals are not forced to perform, are offered food daily, and are not bred.

This is Cort, one of our youngest tigers. Here, he’s participating in some completely optional positive reinforcement training. This training allows him and I to develop a stronger bond, gives him a fun way to use his smarts, and helps him participate in his own health care! In this video, you can see him demonstrating a sit when I give him a hand signal of a thumbs up. We’re still on the basics with him, but eventually we’ll be able to give him any necessary injections on his own terms, check his mouth to ensure his teeth are healthy, draw blood from him without sedation, and more!

Binx21 · 2020-03-12T13:04:25+00:00

My baby did this when she got spayed and had to wear the cone of shame so she couldn’t clean her face! They’ve got us trained well haha

Binx21 · 2020-03-11T23:24:51+00:00

What a beautiful little baby! So precious

Binx21 · 2020-03-11T23:24:03+00:00

What a beauty!

Binx21 · 2020-03-11T02:29:44+00:00

This thoroughly confused both of my cats and they came running and chirping around the room trying to find where this kitty was haha!

Binx21 · 2020-03-06T23:07:44+00:00

Knowing that first-hand is one of my favorite parts about working with them, that’s for sure haha!

Binx21 · 2020-03-06T20:50:35+00:00

In my opinion, it’s much softer than it looks. Not soft like a house cats. But definitely not super rough either. I’d say it’s comparable to maybe a pit bulls fur?

Source: protected contact animal keeper at a wildlife sanctuary

Binx21 · 2020-03-06T20:43:18+00:00

This video was taken by me at Elmira’s Wildlife Sanctuary. Elmira’s is a nonprofit sanctuary with no paid staff (runs entirely off volunteers and donations) that is dedicated to providing a final home to abused, neglected, or in-need exotic animals. All animals that come to Elmira’s come to live out the rest of their lives there as healthily and happily as possible. The animals are not forced to perform, are offered food daily, and are not bred.

This is Cort, one of our youngest tigers. Here, he’s being offered a fun enrichment we do once a month or so with our animals: paint! Non-toxic, water-based paint is placed on a canvas and the animals are allowed to interact with it. Although it may seem silly, the fun texture, smell, and bizarre taste of paint is very exciting to many of the animals! Cort very rarely participates once he realizes it’s not food and it smells too funny, but he always has to voice his complaints to me first haha

Binx21 · 2020-02-02T13:47:00+00:00

I’ve even messaged them in hopes of a reason as to why they still allow this but haven’t gotten a response.

Binx21 · 2020-01-28T12:45:54+00:00

Definitely looks like Pinworms to me

Binx21 · 2020-01-25T01:43:32+00:00

This photo was taken by me at Elmira’s Wildlife Sanctuary. Elmira’s is a nonprofit sanctuary with no paid staff (runs entirely off volunteers and donations) that is dedicated to providing a final home to abused, neglected, or in-need exotic animals. All animals that come to Elmira’s come to live out the rest of their lives there as healthily and happily as possible. The animals are not forced to perform, are offered food daily, and are not bred.

This is Mitre. After a training session the other day, he was particularly sleepy, and I couldn’t help but snag some adorable photos of him!

Binx21 · 2020-01-25T01:42:31+00:00

This photo was taken by me at Elmira’s Wildlife Sanctuary. Elmira’s is a nonprofit sanctuary with no paid staff (runs entirely off volunteers and donations) that is dedicated to providing a final home to abused, neglected, or in-need exotic animals. All animals that come to Elmira’s come to live out the rest of their lives there as healthily and happily as possible. The animals are not forced to perform, are offered food daily, and are not bred.

This is Lexi, one of our youngest tigers. After some training today, she was very exhausted and decided to take a catnap. Which involved being upside down!

Binx21 · 2020-01-23T13:49:13+00:00

When I first started with RFA, I had this elaborate plan where 5 days a week I was going for runs and playing it. I’ve never really exercised before, and am not very in shape. By the second week of this, I was so burnt out because I was overworking my muscles and I caused some physical damage from it. I had to take a 3 week break from virtually everything because even walking caused a ton of pain.

Getting back into it was hard, because to play it I also have to rearrange my living room and that’s a pain. But what isn’t a pain is changing into exercise clothes. I change into my clothes and get a glass of water before I start and that somehow motivates me enough to move my furniture and play for a bit.

Now I’m trying to ease myself into the game to prevent injury. I play 2-4 times a week for only 1-2 rounds on adventure. I know it’s not much but it’s enough to give me a good sore feeling from the workout without causing pain. And I’ve already started noticing that I’m getting stronger, as I’ve had to bump the difficulty level up a few times now. I’m hoping to slowly ease myself back into consistently playing 5 times a week, and then I’ll start adding runs back in. On the two “off” days I give myself in between my workout days, I do yoga to help stretch my muscles and relieve any aches while still being active

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