Please STOP CIPROFLOXACIN DIPS and other antibiotics

[brandon429]

I just saw three more new articles about using guess cipro levels in reef tanks for various benefits. What can outpace cipro now begins to naturally select.

There's always a tradeoff to shortcut reefing, it may be delayed

Stopping rtn and stn doesn't require cipro

Brown jelly can be prevented in other ways, it doesn't require cipro

A broad spectrum shortcut isn't long term reefing

For sure the public wants it, these articles drive many new dosers. Some complete a course, some don't, selection for the most resistant strain is underway

Some benefit will be seen, initially, then the mass- availability of cipro from online mill sources will drive hundreds of thousands of generations of new bacteria in response. It's not that a pandemic is the risk it's that a group of aquarists will justify any addition to their reef they want to add. It doesn't matter how the experiment turns out, it's that the self was served. There are other ways to deal with reef tank maladies that currently cheat by using cipro.

Preserve the effectiveness of the drug for when it's needed and indicated and matched to target.

The only place you find flippant non prescribed cipro use is in a tank forum, by forum users

For example, nobody at jama thinks yes: we do want 500k random reefers administering cipro as they see fit for years, in heated+circulated+fed bacterial cultures.
Only reef forums and blogs that benefit the hobby itself claim that boldness.

 

[brandon429]

Any use of cipro in a reef tank I find bad for the art of reefkeeping

A few can reef without it, repeat those methods

Do not teach or promote any reef tank method that eventually leads to dependence on an antibiotic


At least tie-in required fallow practice to all readers If someone is going to tout a benefit of cipro to target article readers

If someone is going to advocate medicating a group of bacteria out of the tank, circumventing the entire process by just adding more corals and clean up crew from pet stores as they see fit is ridiculous, there has to be retraining to prepare items before installation into the display to prevent needing cipro again

People who don't fallow prep and apply very very careful preps and sourcing for their frags have a higher risk of getting brown jelly disease. Cipro usage has to come with a way to avoid it change in the keepers approach to reefing.



Inherent retraining of reefing procedure should succeed all advice to use cipro in reefing. If that control aspect of separate fallow tank preparation for all new stocked items isn't closely tied to someone's article on cipro, they're just riding a popularity wave with the offer to use it for a temporary workaround.