What is everyone’s method for dosing in tank? Do you back it up with bacteria after each dose? After the treatment? What else do you put in tank to help or recover from your cipro treatment?
Cipro methods
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Fauna Marin has a biocide treatment called Stn / Rtn X. It’s not an antibiotic, but the purpose of the treatment is pretty much the same as Cipro: killing pathogenic bacteria and ciliates.
You can read about it on this link.
With fauna Marin’a treatment, they suggest dosing one of their bacterial mixture „BACTO THERAPY“ with 3 ml/ 26 G, during the biocide treatment.
I’d imagine the reason would be to outcompete pathogenic bacteria for space while replacing beneficial bacteria that are dying because of the biocide action of the treatment (and selling more of their bacteria obvious).
So I suppose you could do a Cipro treatment and then dose a bottled mixture of rapidly reproducing heterotrophic bacteria of your choice.
Those are the bacteria dosed for carbon dosing or improving water quality, they not the bacteria used for cycling a new tank.
just an idea.
You can read about it on this link.
With fauna Marin’a treatment, they suggest dosing one of their bacterial mixture „BACTO THERAPY“ with 3 ml/ 26 G, during the biocide treatment.
I’d imagine the reason would be to outcompete pathogenic bacteria for space while replacing beneficial bacteria that are dying because of the biocide action of the treatment (and selling more of their bacteria obvious).
So I suppose you could do a Cipro treatment and then dose a bottled mixture of rapidly reproducing heterotrophic bacteria of your choice.
Those are the bacteria dosed for carbon dosing or improving water quality, they not the bacteria used for cycling a new tank.
just an idea.
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I like the suggestions. Pretty much what I’m doing. I wonder how king everyone keeps their skimmer and uv off while running cipro? What you think
When I use Cipro for it and tank treatment I also use chemi clean and treat it for 48 hours, i then do a water change and add some micro bacter 7 and run some carbon for a few day’s
Many people do not think this is a good idea - for several reasons - one of them being how quickly cipro is inactivated in a lit environment. So to answer your question, unless you know what you're treating, I wouldn't add it to the tank. In any case, hopefully whatever problem you're having will be resolved
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Yeah I disagree with those folks. Sorry not trying to argue I just fully disagree. You dose it at night anyways
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you can prevent tissue necrosis by keeping a reef tank free of detritus and by culling out new growths routinely vs letting colonies turn into untouched tree trunks inside a system over decades / reducing flow patterns and dilution in the system. We don’t have tissue necrosis in rip clean threads, my lps and sps nano reef is approaching 18 yrs old and isnt ever going to see cipro use, ever, there are better ways to reef than the ways that wind up requiring antibiotics.
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how do you manage BJD? That is what I use cipro for.Managing Tissue Necrosis | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog
While we have come a long way in the hobby and have improved our husbandry skills for keeping corals immeasurably over the past four decades, we still have much to learn, especially in the area of…reefbuilders.com
you can prevent tissue necrosis by keeping a reef tank free of detritus and by culling out new growths routinely vs letting colonies turn into untouched tree trunks inside a system over decades / reducing flow patterns and dilution in the system. We don’t have tissue necrosis in rip clean threads, my lps and sps nano reef is approaching 18 yrs old and isnt ever going to see cipro use, ever, there are better ways to reef than the ways that wind up requiring antibiotics.
If the conditions in your tank were proper, you would not need cipro. IMHO - unless you have some evidence that bacteria xxxx. - sensitive to cipro - cures disease yyy
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