IME kanamycin (both in feed and in water) has not worked. It will knock the infection back but it didn't kill my strain. Guess I have a superbug. I also tried malachite green, nitrofurantoin, oxytetracycline, and sulfathiazole.
I might be wrong, but if I recall erythromycin works a bit better according to Dr. Noga.
But I went with salt. I read some of those articles in the past and I just raised my salinity to levels high enough to kill it. I said to hell with the plants (but many made it through) and hoped most of the fish would be fine. There may have been a better option, but considering I want to sell fish from this tank I figured it would be unethical of me to release what I believe to be a superbug into the hobby. Not to mention it would be messed up to do that to the store owner, who could pass the disease on to hundreds of people.
I might be wrong, but if I recall erythromycin works a bit better according to Dr. Noga.
But I went with salt. I read some of those articles in the past and I just raised my salinity to levels high enough to kill it. I said to hell with the plants (but many made it through) and hoped most of the fish would be fine. There may have been a better option, but considering I want to sell fish from this tank I figured it would be unethical of me to release what I believe to be a superbug into the hobby. Not to mention it would be messed up to do that to the store owner, who could pass the disease on to hundreds of people.
