Re: [GSAS-Member] Erythro question ?

[DonaldR <gsmd_bari@yahoo.com>]

Thanks! Good points Steev.
I'll try the clean up and wait on the drugs!
-Don

--- steev ward <steevward@mac.com> wrote:

> I have to agree in principle that you could be encouraging drug
> resistance
> in the Cyanobacteria by using small doses of Erythromycin, and in
> fact
> there is a good argument for not using antibiotics in that way. But
> what is
> the danger here? We really aren't worried about a super strain of
> Blue-Green Algae taking over the world. The real concern in 
> antibiotic
> resistance is that human pathogens are exposed to low levels of the
> drugs
> that we are throwing around, say if you were coming down with an
> infection
> while you were fiddling with it. Then when you spread your cough to
> the
> people at work you might be spreading a strain of bacteria that has
> already
> gotten used to Erythromycin a little bit and that's not fair to the
> human
> population as a whole. So with that in mind you might say that it is
> better
> to use the smallest amount necessary to get your results. It does get
> a bit
> complicated.
> 
> I prefer not to use antibiotics for controlling Blue-Green Algae,
> because I
> see it as a challenge to correct those things in the aquarium that
> lead it
> to bloom in the first place. It is a sign of pollution, and if you
> take
> away the pollutants that allow it to grow it will go away. That
> usually
> means cleaning up the excess food and waste. If you manually remove
> the
> Blue_Greens you are also taking out the chemicals from which they are
> made.
> Kill it with antibiotics and the tank will have less algae but more
> undesireable chemicals.
> 
> I think a happy medium would be to clean it up as much as possible
> and use
> Ery if you feel you need help while getting the rest of the tank's
> ecosystem established. If on the other hand you consistently have a
> lot of
> fish waste and leftover fish food under bright lights you will always
> have
> something growing on it. We shouldn't count on always finding a pill
> that
> will fix whatever form the problem takes on today.
> 
> Steev
> 
> Kate Breimayer wrote:
> 
> > Every other day worked for me, I didn't have to do it more than 3
> times,
> > often one dose was sufficient.
> > Kate
> >
> 
> 
> 
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