Day 2 of Cipro - cloudy water

[ReefDoberman]

I'm on the second day and dose of 250mg cipro for my sick blue Haddoni. He is over 20 inches and I have him in a 20 high filled 10 gallons with power head and heater. Doing 80% nightly water changes from the display followed by a dose and darkness.

I am treating two elegance corals in a separate HT at the same time and with all the same steps (doing this as an experiment as I have lots of Cipro on hand and wanted to test my theory on these corals).

For some reason, two nights in a row, the haddoni tank becomes cloudy white while the elegance tank stays crystal clear. I have full extension during the day from the elegance but the anemone looks awful (mouth fully purged, some kind of dark discharge, completely deflated and very slimy to touch).

Any ideas what could be causing one tank to turn cloudy while the other stays clear under the same conditions? Also, based on the health of the anemone, I am wondering if I should up the dose?

Fyi, all parameters are in line and tested daily (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, cal, alk, mag, salinity, ph and temp)

 

[justinky]

I'm on the second day and dose of 250mg cipro for my sick blue Haddoni. He is over 20 inches and I have him in a 20 high filled 10 gallons with power head and heater. Doing 80% nightly water changes from the display followed by a dose and darkness.

I am treating two elegance corals in a separate HT at the same time and with all the same steps (doing this as an experiment as I have lots of Cipro on hand and wanted to test my theory on these corals).

For some reason, two nights in a row, the haddoni tank becomes cloudy white while the elegance tank stays crystal clear. I have full extension during the day from the elegance but the anemone looks awful (mouth fully purged, some kind of dark discharge, completely deflated and very slimy to touch).

Any ideas what could be causing one tank to turn cloudy while the other stays clear under the same conditions? Also, based on the health of the anemone, I am wondering if I should up the dose?

Fyi, all parameters are in line and tested daily (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, cal, alk, mag, salinity, ph and temp)

The difference is, one is an anemone and the other are corals. A sick anemone that is doing bad will have lots of slime build up/partial disintegration in your tank(usually from the mouth if you see no tears on the outside), you need to do a 100% WC when it gets cloudy and use a new clean dish brush to brush the film that is covering the entire tank. Anemones need very clean water quality while going through treatment.

 

[OrionN]

Cloudy water means then anemone is dumping out stuff from it's body.
When I see cloudy water I change 100% of the water and re-dose meds

 

[ReefDoberman]

I changed a little over 80% this morning and was planning to do a second change this evening right before the scheduled dose. I didn't want to dose this morning after the change because I run the light during the day. Do you think seeing a discharge is a good thing in the begining stages of treatment?

 

[OrionN]

You should have dose this morming. It does not mater if the light is running. Change 80% of the water means removing 80% of the medication. After the water change your medication oncentration was only 20% of what it should be, which is essentialy no medication. Not enough and will help in selecting resistant bacterial.

 

[jwoyshnar]

Cipro I believe is light sensitive. If you dose, the light will neutralize it.

 

[OrionN]

Cipro is breakdown down by light but how fast we don't know for sure. The 1/2 life can be 8 hr in full sun light in our HT will not be anywhere near that. Still some cipro is better than essentially no cipro