Stress Relief & Immune Support

Use DrTim’s First Defense to Promote Healing and Repair Wounds in Your Tank

First Defense Helps Fish Adapt to New Environments

 

First Defense contains a mixture of vitamins and immunostimulants that work together to help fish and other aquatic organisms adapt and cope when introduced to new environments and stress that can occur with poor water quality conditions.

 

First Defense also neutralizes chlorine and chloramine, buffers against pH changes and detoxifies heavy metals. First Defense should be used when doing partial water changes, during disease treatments and when fish are showing signs of stress.

 

One way to help your fish and corals fight stress, besides providing good water quality and nutrition, is by periodically adding a scientifically formulated, stress relief product such as DrTim’s Aquatics First Defense. First Defense contains, among other things, a mixture of vitamins, immunostimulants and a slime coat replacement substance, all of which promote healing and repair wounds.

 

First Defense can also stimulate feeding in fish that don’t seem interested in eating. You might be thinking, “How can it do that when the fish aren’t eating in the first place?” The answer lies in the basic physiology of fish. Freshwater fish are “saltier” than the water they are in, so aquarium water is automatically absorbed by osmosis through the skin and gills, along with whatever is in the water. So adding the vitamins in First Defense to the aquarium water means those vitamins will be absorbed into the fish, in turn helping the fish fight stress.

 

Saltwater fish have the opposite situation in comparison with freshwater fish. Saltwater are continually losing their internal water to the aquarium so they must constantly drink aquarium water to replenish the water loss. Therefore, any vitamins, minerals and other stress relief agents in the water are ingested along with the water.

 

As mentioned earlier, many stressors open the fish up to what are called secondary bacteria diseases. Secondary in this case means that the bacteria were not the initial stressor of the fish but now that the fish are stressed, they are more susceptible to bacterial infection.

 

There are two ways First Defense helps to fight off bacterial diseases. Firstly, bacteria need an invasion point or spot to gain entry into the fish. This spot usually occurs where the natural slime coat of the fish has been lost either by being rubbed off or the fish losing a scale. First Defense contains polymers that act to replace the slime coat and help ward off infection points.

 

Secondly, for bacteria and viruses to be effective, they must overwhelm the natural defenses of the fish or coral. A simple explanation of how they attempt to do this is by not signaling their presence to the fishes’ immune system until they have sufficient numbers to invade and defeat the immune system. DrTim’s Aquatics First Defense contains immunostimulants that naturally turn on the immune system so it is not surprised by any bacterial or viral invaders, and will be ready to fight them.

 

Eliminating stress in your aquarium is not difficult: providing good water quality, a balanced diet and supplementing with DrTim’s First Defense will go a long way to maintaining a stress free aquarium environment.