I've been using methylene blue for a long time. I use it for fungi on my fish when I notice them starting a little or when their fur is starting to get a little slimy. I usually try that before trying anything else. Or if for some reason I have a nitrate or nitrite spike I will use this a little for extra oxygen if my fish starts to get stressed or is already stressed. That has always worked very well for me. I have never seen any of the fish above it. Never shake your head like I do when I add metronidazole, praziquantal or any other medication. Methylene blue has never harmed my pond plants either. I don't pour it directly into my pond. He was always in the hospital tank. I used it recently when I bought water hyacinth from a pond store. I always bring them home and put them in a lighted and heated container to make sure they don't have a bunch of snails, dragonfly larvae and whatever on those things. Well, those plants ended up hatching some fry. After about a week, the little fry began to turn white and die. I wasn't sure what to pay for because I didn't want to kill these plants I'd just spent a few hundred dollars on and I didn't want the little fish to die. I added some methylene blue and some nitrofuran zone along with fry and plants that also had snails, snail eggs, dragonfly nymphs and white which I think was fungus on these little fish, I can't tell for sure because they were so small . I did it once, left it there for two days and then did a partial water change and no more fry are dying and my hyacinths are still growing and blooming. Some even bloomed purple flowers right away. So it didn't do them any harm at all. I was a little disappointed with these plants and they had to have something on them for these boys to get but not only that the guy told me they had goldfish with plants. I called him and asked him after all these fry hatched. I think people should think about it and I don't know if people really just buy plants and throw them in their pond. I used to do this and around that time I always had some kind of illness and I just thought it was a change in temperature, water parameters. But if the place where you buy the plants has goldfish or other fish, they have a fungus or bacterial infection, and you bring those plants home and throw them in your pond, you're going to bring those things into your pond. So now I isolate my plants. Let's get back to methylene blue. It's definitely blue. I have never colored anything. I took a picture of what it looked like. He photographed my fingers after fully immersing them in the material. And in the last picture I took, I was washing my hands one day. It was almost completely disabled. As soon as I shower it goes away completely. I've never had the methylene blue stain that I've always had. I think having methylene blue in case something happens to you and you don't know what it is will save the fish. At least you can use it when needed. It's better than having nothing at all. If I hadn't had methylene blue on hand along with nitrfurazone at the time, I'm pretty sure the whole fish would have been dead. Because the morning I checked them, there was nothing white about them. Later that day when I started noticing it. About four of them died. This is my story with methylene blue. I'm not sure how it will stain when it gets on your rings or your jewelry or whatever but it will eventually fade when I pick it up and all.
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