medicine

2 amino 5 nitroth­ia­zole is appar­ently an impor­tant med­i­cine to have, but I don’t think it’s avail­able in the U.S. I saw it for sale online but it said you need a haz­mat license to get it.
I haven’t found any med­i­cines for sale here that have it as an ingre­di­ent, either.

I’m not famil­iar with that one, or may know it under a trade name. What name is it sold under in other coun­tries?

There are a num­ber of meds out there for vel­vet. Most of the ich meds will also work on vel­vet. You can also use Acraflavine Neu­tral and can dose that at higher than rec­om­mended rates if it’s a resis­tant strain (works with Bet­tas at sev­eral times the dose but have not tried that with Paros). You might also try LifeBearer, which you should be able to find locally.
Good luck,
Mark

Salt will supress vel­vet but will not kill it, con­trary to the old wives tale. Adding some salt may also help.
Mark

Jacob — there is lim­ited infor­ma­tion in you com­ments con­cern­ing the prod­uct in ques­tion, but from what I under­stand you are look­ing at this med­i­cine as a cure for vel­vet?
2-​Amino-​5-​nitrothiazole is a syn­thetic vet­eri­nary antipro­to­zoal agent used since 1950 to treat farm fowl and pigeons for the most part. It is also used as an inter­me­di­ate in the man­u­fac­ture of a group of dyes known as dis­perse azo dyes. It is not known to occur as a nat­ural prod­uct. Peo­ple may be exposed to 2-​amino-​5-​nitrothiazole thor­ough con­tact with birds treated with the drug, releases from poul­try farms, and occu­pa­tional expo­sures in the dye indus­try.

There was some con­cern that this com­pound could have some car­cino­genic issues based upon a pre­lim­i­nary tox­i­co­log­i­cal eval­u­a­tion. Fol­low up epi­demi­ol­ogy stud­ies did not iden­tify any addi­tional neg­a­tive results.

There are numer­ous ytopi­cal fish farms here in the Tampa Bay area and the Uni­ver­sity of Florida main­tains a lab­o­ra­tory to assist the farm­ers. I have asked the ques­tion about this med­i­cine and if it is being uti­lized on the farms. I have also asked about the pos­si­bilites of obtain­ing the med­i­cine. It may well be that it is only avail­able under the super­vi­sion of a Vet. I’ll let you know what I find out.
Bill

Your 2-​Amino-​5-​nitrothiazole is not on the rec­om­mended list for treat­ing any of the fish on the farms. They uti­lize chelated cop­per sul­fate for the treat­ment of vel­vet. They use Fluben­da­zole also. The farms have to be very care­ful with the water. All the ponds drain into a hold­ing area and then pumped back into the ground. They watch closely to insure we don’t have some of this resid­ual stuff come back up in our ddrink­ing water. Hope this helps…

I have posted this infor­ma­tion on 2-​amino-​5-​nitrothiazole ear­lier in this forum but I can repeat it again.
Very suc­cess­full breed­ers of Parosphromenus and Betta species in Ger­many found out (about six years or more ago) that a med­i­cine sold here to com­bat hole dis­ease with Dis­cus worked per­fectly in eras­ing Ood­inium. The med­i­cine is called “Hexa-​Ex”, it is man­u­fac­tured by the big com­pany “Tetra” and sold as tablet. Shortly after Tetra another com­pany, JBL, sold the same med­i­cine with the name “Spiro­hexol”.
And the point is: Both prod­ucts con­sist of only one ingre­di­ent: 2-​amino-​5-​nitrothiazole.
Since that time all of us only use this med­i­cine to com­bat Ood­inium. All other meth­ods have proved to be not as effec­tive than this.
Many of us have tried to get this chem­i­cal sub­stance free as a pow­der. This is dif­fi­cult, for it is sold only to vet­eri­nar­i­ans. I do not know why.
When Jacob men­tioned a prob­lem with Ood­inium, I sug­gested to him try­ing to get hold of Hexa-​Ex (Tetra) or Spiro­hexol (JBL) or the sub­stance directly. But he replied that he could not find it.
I only can repeat our expe­ri­ence: It’s the best med­i­cine against that dis­ease. There is no prob­lem with dosage. We have never expe­ri­enced any sec­ondary effects.
Cer­tainly, it’s a strong chem­i­cal means. We all pre­fer more nat­ural meth­ods or lighter chem­i­cal means. But there have been severe losses of valu­able fish (self-​caught, few spec­i­men, the last of a form) by that lighter meth­ods. Since that time we use 2-​amino-​5-​nitrothiazole if things mus be com­bat­ted suc­cess­fully. (By the way: The sub­stance must be stored very cool, best in a refrig­er­a­tor. Oth­er­wise the yel­low will turn into a brown and the stuff will become worthless).