Cipro dose instructions needed pls

[gobigrab]

Hi all, I am absolutely terrible at math and hoping for a basic Cipro instruction for my reef tanks. I have a 240 gallon a 65 and a 32. My Cipro tabs are 500 mg both having serious bacterial outbreaks. Time to bite the bullet and dose. I've heard many good things here... recently changed my username an account because I couldn't work out my login… Formerly hillpag.

thanks so much! Glad I can lean on you, mathematicians and good folks out there!

also, advice on additional treatments? I'm having standard BJD issues.

 

[KrisReef]

Here’s the paragraph from the original post re BJD Treaments

“I used Ciprofloxacin at 0.125 mg / L. To achieve this I dissolved a 500 mg pill in 50 ml of RODI water, producing a 10 mg / ml solution (which I subsequently stored in the fridge). The aquarium system has 70 gal volume altogether (~265 L), so I added 3.3 ml of this solution to achieve 0.125 mg / L. I repeated this dose every 2 days for 3 doses altogether.”

You need to find out (estimate)!how many gallons of water you have in your system.
Once you know that multiple gallons x 3.875 to know how many liters you have.

Dissolve the tablet in 50ml of water ( hopefully you have a syringe or a cough syrup cup that has mls on it.
Math:

Your total Liters x 0.125mg/liter =mg you need to add.
For every 10mg you need add 1ml pillwater.

or instance, if you have 100liters of water in your system, then

100liters/0.125mg/liter =12.5 mg

12.5/10= 1.25 ml of pillwater.

I’m zonked currently, hope you can follow this trail

Edit: Dissolved the pills in RODI for best results. Cipro is light sensitive, I put foil on the container and store in the fridge

 

[gobigrab]

Here’s the paragraph from the original post re BJD Treaments

“I used Ciprofloxacin at 0.125 mg / L. To achieve this I dissolved a 500 mg pill in 50 ml of RODI water, producing a 10 mg / ml solution (which I subsequently stored in the fridge). The aquarium system has 70 gal volume altogether (~265 L), so I added 3.3 ml of this solution to achieve 0.125 mg / L. I repeated this dose every 2 days for 3 doses altogether.”

You need to find out (estimate)!how many gallons of water you have in your system.
Once you know that multiple gallons x 3.875 to know how many liters you have.

Dissolve the tablet in 50ml of water ( hopefully you have a syringe or a cough syrup cup that has mls on it.
Math:

Your total Liters x 0.125mg/liter =mg you need to add.
For every 10mg you need add 1ml pillwater.

or instance, if you have 100liters of water in your system, then

100liters/0.125mg/liter =12.5 mg

12.5/10= 1.25 ml of pillwater.

I’m zonked currently, hope you can follow this trail

Edit: Dissolved the pills in RODI for best results. Cipro is light sensitive, I put foil on the container and store in the fridge

Thank you so much! Always grateful for this community and your commitment to helping everybody!

 

[Lavey29]

I dosed my 65g DT with one 125mg ciprofloaxin pill dissolved in tank water first. I did 3 total doses over 6 days so one dissolved pill every other day. You need to dose after lights out and remove chemical media but leave skimmer on.