Pet fish antimicrobial therapy — medicated food delivery, oxytetracycline dosage, route by infection site
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*[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Antimicrobials can be given by several routes, but medicated food is most common and usually most effective. *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Oxytetracycline can be fed at 55–83 mg/kg/day for 10 days to control many gram-negative infections, including columnaris disease. *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Baths and topical treatments suit external infections, while medicated food and injections suit internal ones.