FURAN 2 + Kanaplex

Angels best · Nov 19, 2018

So i have suffered fish deaths on my tank lately because of popeye and finrot. LFS tell me that my tank might have bacterial infection going on. Did water change twice already but still my fish keeps on having fin rots and eventually die.

Now my game plan is to treat the tank with Furan 2 and i still have kanaplex on hand. Can i mix them both? Or should i do it 1 medication at a time. I have a volitan and fox face in there which does not show signs of infection.

Thanks for all the support.

NY_Caveman · Nov 19, 2018

I saw this from Humblefish our resident expert. He seemed to say dose them together, but it may be out of context though. Searching the stickies in the Disease forum might lead to more. You can use the search tool to find those meds within a thread.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/fish-and-treatment-guidelines-with-chart.283450/page-18#post-4840580

lion king · Nov 19, 2018

These antibiotics do not work well in a dt. If there is no sign of infection with these 2, I would leave it alone. If you do see signs, for effective treatment, they would need to be in a hospital tank without rock and substrate. There does need to be a viable form of biological filtration on the hospital tank.

Billldg · Nov 19, 2018

I have used these 2 meds together with no problems, but only did it in a QT tank. Not sure how they will effect your DT.

Angels best · Nov 19, 2018

Billldg said:
I have used these 2 meds together with no problems, but only did it in a QT tank. Not sure how they will effect your DT.

Im not putting them on a DT. I have a QT with live rocks too..

Pbh-reef · Nov 19, 2018

@HotRocks says you can dose these together in lieu of spectrogram (which is what he uses). So it seems like you’ll be fine

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/my-current-qt-process.483371/

Billldg · Nov 19, 2018

I dont think they will leach into the rock like copper does, but not positive.

@HotRocks

HotRocks · Nov 19, 2018

Antibiotics are going to be best used in a bare bottom QT. Degradation is possible, also the biofilm could possibly break the meds down before they become effective in treatment.