Patent Application
20070259069
Medicating fish has always been a major problem when it came to internal disease issue. Treatments have always been applied to the water where the fish reside in hopes that the medication would absorb into the fishes body and treat the disease problem.
Attempts to apply medications to fish feed have had varying results and only a few medicates have been offered.
Research studies conducted at the University of Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine, have demonstrated that very little if any of the antibiotics and chemicals tested absorbed into the tissue of the fish when treated in the water where the fish reside.
Other problems resulted from treating the water where the fish reside included damage to the biological filtering system. This creates environmental toxins, which can damage or kill the fish.
Gel-Tek was invented to eliminate these issues and provide an effective method of medicating sick fish.
Gel-Tek's formula can be mixed with various components as mentioned in the Specifications. Once mixed with a component, the Gel-Tek is administered to the aquarium drop wise forming small pea sized floating gel bodies which are neutrally buoyant, which is essential to allowing the fish to eat it providing a treatment that is taken internally and will not affect the aquarium equilibrium. The uneaten Gel Tek dissolves in a short period of time leaving no residue.
Present Products with Gel Tek:
Gel-Tek Ultra Cure BX . . . Nitrofurazone, Triple Sulfa
Gel-Tek Ultra Cure PX . . . Praziquantel, Flubenol, Metronidazole
Gel-Tek Ultra Ultra Color FX . . . Haematococcus
Gel-Tek Ultra Gro VX . . . Spirulina pacifica
Gel-Tek TC . . . Tetracycline
Gel-Tek AMP . . . Ampicillin
Gel-Tek Pen . . . Penicillin
Gel-Tek EM . . . Erythromycin
Gel-Tek-NEO . . . Neomycin
Gel-Tek Ultra Ich. Gel
Gel Tek is a mechanism in the form of a hydrolytic gel with feeding inducements, to carry antibiotics, chemicals, anthelmintics, to include parasitic copepods, flukes, monogenetic, digenetic trematodes, protozoan, fungal and sporazoan treatments as well as dietary supplements to include algae, mineral, electrolyte and vitamin additives to captive tropical fish for consumption.
Gel-Tek is used as a carrier for treatments; medication, metabolic stability and not limited to diseases of freshwater or marine captive tropical fish.
