Anemones and antibiotics

[D-Nak]

Antibiotic given to land animals stay there until they poop or pee it out (or metabolized by the liver/ other organ)

Sick anemone will not eat. Almost all antibiotic developed are water soluble. The would enter the anemone easy though diffusion. Give it into the water, it will get into the anemone. If you somehow able to injected antibiotic into the tissue of the anemone, it will just diffuse out to the water. IMO, there is no advantage in getting the antibiotic into the anemone because of the above reason.

+1. If the anemone expands, a majority of the mass is water, which means it's absorbing the antibiotics. Physically feeding the nem will cause it undo stress.

 

[Rahl187]

Any updates on this? It's been a couple years since last post. I'm hoping there is a difinitive conclusion here.

 

[OrionN]

Build on this thread, I devised a protocol to treat sick anemone with antibiotic. Can be find here, sticky on this forums:

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2271385

 

[davocean]

Any updates on this? It's been a couple years since last post. I'm hoping there is a difinitive conclusion here.

Yes, the protocol thread by Minh has become standard treatment among many anemone keepers, and seems to have hugely increased the success rate in keeping the more difficult species like mags and gigs.

In fact it's been such a game changer I actually think those particular anemone's can actually be easier to keep in some ways than the others once they have received cipro treatment and healthy.

I would not even consider ordering or buying either of those w/out having cipro and QT already on hand and expecting to treat at first noticeable sign of needing it, which is almost always.

 

[AD87]

I have been doing more non-scientific research with my anemones.

Over sized UV doesn't stop the spread of sickness from one anemone to another if they share the same closed system. Meaning that if you have 4 anemones together in the same tank the sickness will spread. I haven't tried seperating the anemones in different tanks with UV that share the same sump/filtration.

Also I am now a believer that high nitrate has some type of affect on settled anemones (Magnifica). That statement can be easily accepted, but I thought they were resilient once they were settled.

Nitrate above 25 seems to be the breaking point in my experience.