Hi,
As you probably have seen in my latests threads I have had a bad experience with my last gigantea, I had to treat it with antibiotics but after returned to DT it never recovered and finally die
After that I have run ozone for two weeks with ORP up to 450 mV to try to minimize the bacterial content in the water.I have also installed a UV sterilizer
I am not sure what protocol use for the next gigantea I am planning to adquire:
a) Place the nem in the DT and in case of it shows the typical sings of bacterial infection then remove to HT and treat with antibiotics. In this aproach it is supposed that the bacteria comes with the nem, is in the DT or both
b) Treat with antibiotics before entering in the DT. In this case if the nem is carrying pathogen bacteria they will be destroyed before entering in DT. But if bacteria is present in DT the nem can be infected and get sick later
c) Place the nem in HT at arrival, perform the antibiotic treatment for one or two weeks. After the treatment place the animal into a quarantine tank (15 gal) with a PH, heater and an external canister filter already cycled and established using only blottled bacteria (Microbe-Lift Nite Out II, Aquaforest BIO S and Seachem Stability).
The QT tank, PHs, heater and the filter media were previously disinfected using hydrogen peroxide and later cycled adding only ammonium chloride and the cultured bacteria. Not any live rock or live sand or anything that could carry pathogen bacteria was added.
In this case, in theory after the initial antibiotics treatment it will be imposible for the nem to get sick when later placed in this QT. And then after one month or two, try to transfer to DT to see what happens
What do you think?
As you probably have seen in my latests threads I have had a bad experience with my last gigantea, I had to treat it with antibiotics but after returned to DT it never recovered and finally die
After that I have run ozone for two weeks with ORP up to 450 mV to try to minimize the bacterial content in the water.I have also installed a UV sterilizer
I am not sure what protocol use for the next gigantea I am planning to adquire:
a) Place the nem in the DT and in case of it shows the typical sings of bacterial infection then remove to HT and treat with antibiotics. In this aproach it is supposed that the bacteria comes with the nem, is in the DT or both
b) Treat with antibiotics before entering in the DT. In this case if the nem is carrying pathogen bacteria they will be destroyed before entering in DT. But if bacteria is present in DT the nem can be infected and get sick later
c) Place the nem in HT at arrival, perform the antibiotic treatment for one or two weeks. After the treatment place the animal into a quarantine tank (15 gal) with a PH, heater and an external canister filter already cycled and established using only blottled bacteria (Microbe-Lift Nite Out II, Aquaforest BIO S and Seachem Stability).
The QT tank, PHs, heater and the filter media were previously disinfected using hydrogen peroxide and later cycled adding only ammonium chloride and the cultured bacteria. Not any live rock or live sand or anything that could carry pathogen bacteria was added.
In this case, in theory after the initial antibiotics treatment it will be imposible for the nem to get sick when later placed in this QT. And then after one month or two, try to transfer to DT to see what happens
What do you think?
