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buy it. iodine too. The iodine youll use later.Any update? Im literally standing in my LFS looking at packs of furan2 and E.M. erytbromycin. Im trying to save a wall hammer.
I would try API EM erythromycin, unless you've solved the mystery of what form of erythromycin Chemiclean contains.
I only know it does not contain erythromycin succinate.
From the original posters? Nothing that I know of, but someone feel free to point us to something otherwise.any updates on this thread?
I think your roving pack of hungry ciliates might be paramecium.
The single round objects are probably cocci, type unknown.
I take your point about the time, but given the spread rate of BJD, something that doesn't slow it down until 72hr is not super helpful anyway.Remember macrolides (erythromycin) are a time dependent antimicrobial assuming your trial dose meets MIC for the intended subject.
So don't judge your results in less than about 72 hours I'd think.
Are you conducting your kill studies in a dish or on a growth plate?
Vibrio bacteria got blamed early, but researchers found no difference in the amounts of vibrio in healthy and diseased coral.Vibrio makes sense, anecdotally, as I relate it to necrotizing fasciitis in people. Is there evidence this isn't a bacteria?
I take your point about the time, but given the spread rate of BJD, something that doesn't slow it down until 72hr is not super helpful anyway.
I can't come up with any "stress" that these mushrooms might be experiencing. (nor any recent addition that could have brought a new pathogen)I'm not aware of anything Earthly that stresses or otherwise harms mushrooms but the specificity of the breakout in @taricha's tank does seem to indicate that the shrooms were particularly stressed and/or susceptible for some reason compared to neighboring colonies which did not succumb to BJD.
It may seem odd for one coral to be the only target (still does to me), but I recently had an issue that was precisely long enough to kill about 1.2 square feet of Montipora digitata colony across 3-4 light zones and about as many different flow zones. At the same time, no other corals in the whole system appeared to suffer at all. I can't explain the specificity in either case except to presume some kind of stress.
All just 2¢. Very interesting topic!!!
@taricha any idea when/where/why/how your BJD got started?
And BTW, I might be willing to pay for shipping on some BJD for my tank if you can prove this stuff will kill my mushrooms off once and for all!!!