[AquaticLife] Ye Olde Medicine Cabinet
Your typo of “dissuasion” (I think you meant discussion) is a very nice Freudian Slip… since most of us should be dissuaded from keeping too many meds on hand as most of them would go out of date before you ever use them. 
Other than keeping salt in your kitchen cupboard, there’s not much use for a medicine chest unless you have lots of fish tanks, rescue fish and/or tanks from others, etc., where the likelihood of need would be often enough to warrant keeping meds around. They do not have long shelf lives for the most part and you could find yourself throwing stuff away. Of course, I’m in a city with 24 hour drug stores, 24 hour Wal-Mart’s and other stores that are open 7 days a week till 9′ish every night so I have easy access to any meds I might need if and when I need them.
At first sign of many issues, a salt treatment of 0.1%, slowly raised to 0.3% is always a good first step while trying to diagnose the exact issue.
Besides salt, other regular household remedies like Hydrogen Peroxide, antibiotic creams, etc., can also be used if/when needed… especially on larger fish that are a little easier to spot treat than small fish. Keeping Prime or other ammonia binding dechlor product probably isn’t a bad thing to have around in the even of cycling issues. Salt would come into play with any nitrite issues to help prevent nitrite poisoning… a pinch per 10G works for low levels of nitrites. Higher levels should be treated with frequent PWC’s.
Heck… why am I typing this.. I’m the king of links. LOL Here’s a “Medicine Cabinet” page that I have in my favorites folder. http://thegab.org/Articles/MedicineCabinet.html
Lenny Vasbinder Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com (Links to any articles referenced in above reply are listed on the right side, alphabetically under Labels and also under Archives by Year, Month)
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