This information is direct from Humblefish and I'm posting it here with his permission
The antibiotics we currently use to treat bacterial infections by dosing the water water column tend to be very slow acting but there are some new options that he has been using and I am currently using myself, ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin. He told me that he has not had any issues treating bacterial infections since discovering these medications.
The method of administering them can be a bit of a pain but it's worth the effort:
1) Ciprofloxacin (Best administered via a 1-hour bath treatment. Dosage is high: 250mg per gal. Repeat every 24 hours for 7 days.)
2) Enrofloxacin (Most advanced antibiotic approved for use in tropical fish ... Dosage range is 2.5 - 5 mg/L daily for 7 days; can be used both in a QT or as a 5 hour bath treatment. The tricky thing about Enrofloxacin is the 2.5 - 5 mg/L dosage range is actually safe for QT use, but the nitrifying bacteria will also take a hit. So, the primary reason to administer the medication as a 5 hr bath is to spare your biofilter.)
I asked him and he confirmed that it is ok to use prime to combat ammonia if you dose enrofloxacin in a qt
Between the baths he also recommends placing a uv sterilizer in the QT to kill any harmful bacteria that is present in the water column to prevent reinfection.
Here are a couple of sources to purchase the medications:
I hope this information can help us to save more of our fish!
The antibiotics we currently use to treat bacterial infections by dosing the water water column tend to be very slow acting but there are some new options that he has been using and I am currently using myself, ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin. He told me that he has not had any issues treating bacterial infections since discovering these medications.
The method of administering them can be a bit of a pain but it's worth the effort:
1) Ciprofloxacin (Best administered via a 1-hour bath treatment. Dosage is high: 250mg per gal. Repeat every 24 hours for 7 days.)
2) Enrofloxacin (Most advanced antibiotic approved for use in tropical fish ... Dosage range is 2.5 - 5 mg/L daily for 7 days; can be used both in a QT or as a 5 hour bath treatment. The tricky thing about Enrofloxacin is the 2.5 - 5 mg/L dosage range is actually safe for QT use, but the nitrifying bacteria will also take a hit. So, the primary reason to administer the medication as a 5 hr bath is to spare your biofilter.)
I asked him and he confirmed that it is ok to use prime to combat ammonia if you dose enrofloxacin in a qt
Between the baths he also recommends placing a uv sterilizer in the QT to kill any harmful bacteria that is present in the water column to prevent reinfection.
Here are a couple of sources to purchase the medications:
Fish Flox Forte® - Ciprofloxacin - 500mg
Fish Flox Forte® (Ciprofloxacin) from Thomas Labs is a synthetic broad-spectrum antibiotic that is effective against gram-negative and some gram-positive bacterial pathogens of fish, including aeromonads, flexibacteria, and vibrios. This fish antibiotic is useful for control of some common...
www.thomaslabs.com
I hope this information can help us to save more of our fish!
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