my coral qt has run into some issues lately
my ato up and broke, which sucks. although breaking last week for me to see and not next week when i'm on vacation is preferable
i also have just lost several frags to run of the mill dead acro unknown cause. i saw a couple stn, but didn't really do anything as i just have never had success saving them from that. then i noticed several were doing it and someone mentioned maybe doing a cipro bath. i looked into it and apparently people have had some level of success saving stuff from stn/rtn by giving them baths in various antibiotics. amoxicillin was recommended mostly, but tetracycline, doxycycline, and a couple others have apparently been tried with some success. either way, i don't casually have those on hand, so ciprofloxacin it was
apologies for extra bad pics, i don't clean the glass in my qt tank, but should give an idea
fox flame, i'm not sure was really stn or just an irritated area as there's a bit of algae on there, but i removed it from the plug and tried to cut away the dead part
granulosa again may have just been algae irritating an area, but i gave it a dip and fragged the dead part off
now this one seems like clear stn that was gonna kill the entire thing. i fragged it into 3 pieces trying to stay well above the dead zone
and this is the backside of a red planet that i just put in my dt. i chopped up a few branches and gave them a dip
dosage was 250mg in 1/2 gallon of water for 10-12 minutes
seemed like dosage and times varied wildly from people. some guy said he only does 8-10 minutes max, another guy said he did 2 hours, so who the hell knows, the wild west of coral winging it
my fragging abilities are limited to bonecutters so not the nicest cuts or anything, so i kinda expected losses just from that process
but today i'm not seeing a single loss, surprisingly
granulosa has a bit of a white tip thing going on? shrug, but alive at least
then a couple of the one that was clearly stning
and the red planet frags which don't look great due to the diatoms/dino/whateverthehell is in my dt, but they're all alive
so i just thought that was an interesting experience i might share. i honestly thought most stn/rtn treatments were total snake oil, and this might not be the grand solution, but it's something that can be tried at least.
i have ordered amoxicillin online (it requires a vet rx, but some sites sell it as a fish med) so i'll probably try that in the future as that, according to some random guy on the internet that sounded smart, is probably the best one to attack the bacteria, rather than cipro which just kinda walls off the bacteria