HELP! Losing LPS to bacterial infection?

[MischiefReef]

I share some of your concerns despite reading several reports of cipro dosing not hurting the tank. For now I’m sticking to cipro treatment outside the tank. It will be 3-4 weeks before I get the report back on the bacterial profile of my tank and if it’s relatively normal or atypical. Until I know more (or unless I start losing significantly more coral) I’m going to be very cautious.

I may give a hydrogen peroxide dip a try as well if nothing improves, but i don’t want to do too much at one time. First I need to see if yesterday’s Bayer dip might have made any difference.

If it is ciliates, you may be harming your corals by antibiotic treatment.

 

[Dom]

I share some of your concerns despite reading several reports of cipro dosing not hurting the tank. For now I’m sticking to cipro treatment outside the tank. It will be 3-4 weeks before I get the report back on the bacterial profile of my tank and if it’s relatively normal or atypical. Until I know more (or unless I start losing significantly more coral) I’m going to be very cautious.

I may give a hydrogen peroxide dip a try as well if nothing improves, but i don’t want to do too much at one time. First I need to see if yesterday’s Bayer dip might have made any difference.

Agreed. If you do everything at the same time or everything too close together, you'll never be able to know what worked.

 

[agol77]

Did you get to the bottom of this issue?

 

[Les Poissons]

Did you get to the bottom of this issue?

Not really. The Aquabiomics test showed that my tank was in the 44th percentile for diversity and the 87th percentile for balance. More importantly, it didn't show any known coral pathogens. So perhaps it was just a low-nutrient issue? A couple of the corals affected have died, while some others seem to have recovered somewhat. There has not been any further spread, so I suppose it's also possible that the bayer dip or cipro took care of something.

That said, the Aquabiomics test did show a couple of fish pathogens (photobacterium damselae and vibrio fortis). I lost one wrasse to a bacterial infection shortly after adding to the tank and successfully treated a clownfish with an infection a couple months later, so I may consider doing something about those at some point (assuming they may be the cause of the fish infections) - which would again probably put me down the path of a cipro treatment for the whole tank. For now I'm going to let things ride as all fish seem healthy and corals are doing okay.

 

[agol77]

Not really. The Aquabiomics test showed that my tank was in the 44th percentile for diversity and the 87th percentile for balance. More importantly, it didn't show any known coral pathogens. So perhaps it was just a low-nutrient issue? A couple of the corals affected have died, while some others seem to have recovered somewhat. There has not been any further spread, so I suppose it's also possible that the bayer dip or cipro took care of something.

That said, the Aquabiomics test did show a couple of fish pathogens (photobacterium damselae and vibrio fortis). I lost one wrasse to a bacterial infection shortly after adding to the tank and successfully treated a clownfish with an infection a couple months later, so I may consider doing something about those at some point (assuming they may be the cause of the fish infections) - which would again probably put me down the path of a cipro treatment for the whole tank. For now I'm going to let things ride as all fish seem healthy and corals are doing okay.

Thanks for the update. Sounds like a mixed bag. I’m having a similar issue with a few new frags, but in the UK we don’t have easy access to antibiotics like Cipro, so am trying to rely on iodine dips. I’ll be gutted if it spreads to my established corals, but time will tell.

 

[doubleshot00]

Not really. The Aquabiomics test showed that my tank was in the 44th percentile for diversity and the 87th percentile for balance. More importantly, it didn't show any known coral pathogens. So perhaps it was just a low-nutrient issue? A couple of the corals affected have died, while some others seem to have recovered somewhat. There has not been any further spread, so I suppose it's also possible that the bayer dip or cipro took care of something.

That said, the Aquabiomics test did show a couple of fish pathogens (photobacterium damselae and vibrio fortis). I lost one wrasse to a bacterial infection shortly after adding to the tank and successfully treated a clownfish with an infection a couple months later, so I may consider doing something about those at some point (assuming they may be the cause of the fish infections) - which would again probably put me down the path of a cipro treatment for the whole tank. For now I'm going to let things ride as all fish seem healthy and corals are doing okay.

I just did an Aquabiomics test. Its like what do you do now. I have no n=know coral or fish pathogens in my tank but am loosing sps. Isnt this hobby frustrating.