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Antibiotics in display

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Topic: Antibiotics in display

Posted By: jungleboy
Subject: Antibiotics in display
Date Posted: October 04 2017 at 1:25pm

ok before everyone freaks out at me let me explain.

I have been struggling with Brown Jelly Disease BJD for a couple months now and I can't seem to get rid of it. I dip all of my sps and lps in iodine, but they still seem to get sick.

the only other solution that I can think of would be to use antibiotics in my display tank to get rid of the microbe from the entire system. I understand that I would have a serious recycle in my tank and I would have to reintroduce BB and do lots of water changes. I have a refugium that could help with the recycle not being so huge. I am just sick of throwing away my favorite corals.

I was looking for opinions and suggestions on getting rid of this problem. Also what antibiotic I could use that is safe for my livestock.

This is a list of my livestock:

Clownfish

Yasha Goby

Pistol Shrimp

astrea snails

nassarius snails

sps

birdsest frag

Lps

Hammer Coral

Torch Coral

blasto

Other coral

Hairy Mushroom

zoas

ricordea

GSP

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Posted By: phys
Date Posted: October 05 2017 at 4:01am

That's kind of difficult to say... I'm not aware of a single effective antibiotic that doesn't kill at least one thing on that list or the micro life in your tank...