[CraigL83]

I recently had a BAD cyano outbreak and began to treat it by doing a 40% water change while sucking out as much of the cyano as possible, blacking out the tank (on day 2 of black out), and using 2.5mg/l of azithromycin. Has anyone used this antibiotic before? I know that erithromycin is the standard antibiotic that is used to treat cyano but i assumed both of these antibiotics are of the same famly. Does anyone have any experience with this in particular medication used for treating cyano?

 

[CraigL83]

thanks for such a quick response. The reason i went with azithromycin is because i had it in the house. I also figured that i dont have any livestock in the tank (other than plants) so i figured how much damage could it do.

 

[CraigL83]

So would you suggest i stop the treatment? finish treating and not use this antibiotic in the future? switch to e-mycin? what would be the best coarse to take?

 

[CraigL83]

i only treated the tank for one day so far... this is the second day and have yet to add the antibiotic. I could run out and grab some e-mycin from the pet store before the snow comes....