I have a Coral Beauty who has recently developed some fin rot. Besides quarantine and h20 changes, does anyone have a favorite medication for treatment?
You've probably gotten no responses due to the fact that no medication should be regarded as "reef safe." Unfortunately, antibiotics and such used to target virulent pathogens also target beneficial organisms such as nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria, dinoflagellates/zooxanthellae, etc. Using any medication in the display tank is inadvisable. I hate to break this to you, but a quarentine tank is the only way to go.
toyota44- I mistakenly used Melafix once, stupidly tring to cure what I latter learned was ick. None of the fish were cured. Almost lost a clam. Killed my Xenia. Everything looked horrilble. This was when I was a newbie. There are no reef safe medications IMHO. Leonard is right, QT is the only way to go.
BTW, what type of tank is your coral beauty in? The above comments were made under the assumption that he is in a reef tank? If he is in FO, then it's a differeent story! Please clarify.
The only reef-safe medication I know of is Selcon, but I don't think that fit's into what you were thinking of as a "Medication". Keeping your fish and corals healthy and stress free, and feeding a nutritious food, will go loads further than any reactionary medication.
