Ciprofloxacin in display reef tank

[raseshJ]

Hello all reefers,

Am planning to treat my display reef tank with ciprofloxacin.
My tankmates:
1 pair of black oscellaris clownfish
1 yellow watchman goby
1 ornate leopard wrasse
1 peppermint shrimp
1 red porcelain cram
3 small Brittle starfish
3 bornella stellifer orange nudibranch
Neon green zoanthids
1 ricordea mushroom
Green star polyps
2 bubbletip anemone (lost their colors)
Cup corals
Hermits and mix snails and clams

Will Cipro treatment harm any of them?
Will 6 day treatment help anemones to gain color and bubbles?
They were green bubbly tip anemones with pink ends, but jow they lost colour and tentacles are long stringy.
Parameters are normal.
Also let me know what to do don't during treatment.

Thanks in advanced. If need I can share pics as requested.

 

[lapin]

It would be better to remove the nems for treatment if they need it. Perhaps its a water quality issue not disease. New tank? Salinity? Temp? Alk?

 

[rongy]

I’ve done cipro dosing a few times. I have everything you got except the Nudi. Everything survived after treatment. They only kill bacteria (both good and bad) in my tank

 

[Spare time]

What seems to be the problem? Bubble tips change shapes and there is no reason to think a color shift is a bacterial infection. Antibiotics are harmful to nearly every aspect of the tank when not needed and can weaken everything to become more vulnerable to infection through microbiome disruptions.

 

[Jekyl]

What seems to be the problem? Bubble tips change shapes and there is no reason to think a color shift is a bacterial infection. Antibiotics are harmful to nearly every aspect of the tank when not needed and can weaken everything to become more vulnerable to infection through microbiome disruptions.

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[Jekyl]

Hello all reefers,

Am planning to treat my display reef tank with ciprofloxacin.
My tankmates:
1 pair of black oscellaris clownfish
1 yellow watchman goby
1 ornate leopard wrasse
1 peppermint shrimp
1 red porcelain cram
3 small Brittle starfish
3 bornella stellifer orange nudibranch
Neon green zoanthids
1 ricordea mushroom
Green star polyps
2 bubbletip anemone (lost their colors)
Cup corals
Hermits and mix snails and clams

Will Cipro treatment harm any of them?
Will 6 day treatment help anemones to gain color and bubbles?
They were green bubbly tip anemones with pink ends, but jow they lost colour and tentacles are long stringy.
Parameters are normal.
Also let me know what to do don't during treatment.

Thanks in advanced. If need I can share pics as requested.

Nems losing color has more to do with environment than infection. Possibly lack of light?

 

[raseshJ]

Hi,
Sal 1.026
Ammo n nitrite not detected
Nitrate and phosphate present as I see green hair algae
Temp is 27°C set with chiller
pH 7.8-7.9, started using kalkwasser to maintain at 8.3-8.4
alk 9-10dKHdid a brightwell Razor treatment and nopox dosing for month ago.

I heard nems lose colour and shape and gain with Cipro treatment, that's why I am taking this path. Do let me know if it will help.

 

[raseshJ]

Led Light by smat-farm G5 6channel, I use sunrise n sunset for 2hrs and full 90% light for 8hrs. And moonlight for 4-5hrs

 

[Jekyl]

Have some white light pics of the tank and anemone? What are your phosphate and nitrate readings?

 

[Spare time]

Hi,
Sal 1.026
Ammo n nitrite not detected
Nitrate and phosphate present as I see green hair algae
Temp is 27°C set with chiller
pH 7.8-7.9, started using kalkwasser to maintain at 8.3-8.4
alk 9-10dKHdid a brightwell Razor treatment and nopox dosing for month ago.

I heard nems lose colour and shape and gain with Cipro treatment, that's why I am taking this path. Do let me know if it will help.

The presence of green hair algae doesn't mean there is nitrate and phosphate present for the anemone. If anything, it means there is less since they are competing.

 

[jda]

People are starting to see rebounds from cipro and amox treatments that dwarf the before. You are destroying part of your ecosystem and you have no idea what will come to take it's place. I have yet to really see a reason to dose cipro or amox in any tank - while some immediate results might look good, the long term for some is starting to look bleak.

I would avoid this at all costs. Cipro is not some magic wand that fixes things.

 

[raseshJ]

Nitrate is 15
Phosphate 0.05
Below are photo of anemone when purchased and the current.

 

[raseshJ]

Can anyone tell me what caused anemone to look like this?

 

[rongy]

Can anyone tell me what caused anemone to look like this?

The anemone looks very bleached. If your parameters are in check, it may be lighting and wave.

 

[raseshJ]

The anemone looks very bleached. If your parameters are in check, it may be lighting and wave.

Too much flow and lighting or less?