Fin rot medication

[Elisabeth83]

I am treating my 30 gallon tank for fin rot. I usually use Waterlife Myxazin which says it doesn't kill off your benificial bacteria but my lfs doesn't carry that brand so I used a product by JBL for fin rot. Because I used the Myxazin before it didn't even cross my mind to check if the JBL medication killed off my benificial bacteria Well then I saw on the instruction sheet that it kills off all bacteria and that once treatment if over to use another one of their products to re-introduce bacteria to the tank. Not sure if that stuff works like it says it does though??

The medication says if there is no signs of improvement after 4 days then treatment may be re-peated after a 50% water change is done.

Yesterday I changed 50% of the water and today I started doing another treatment. So far I can't see any signs of improvement

If theres no benificial bacteria in the tank and I'm not doing water changes but every 4 days...wont the NitrIte and Ammonia be harming the fish??

Once treatment is over...should I maybe float some filter media from one of my other tanks in the tank to re-introduce bacteria to the tank??

Someone HELP

 

[Fiddlesticks]

Probably couldn't hurt. It would speed up the growth im sure. When I had to cycle my last tank I put in some gravel from an established tank and the cycle finished in no time.

 

[Elisabeth83]

I just tested the water and the readings are

Nitrate - 5
NitrIte - 0
GH - 10
KH - 5
PH - 7.0

I have a separate test kit for ammonia and there are 2 different types of ammonia tests free ammonia and total ammonia. On the test for free ammonia it was 0 and on the total ammonia it was 0.02. I'm not sure what that means?

If the medication is supposed to kill off benificial bacteria wouldn't my readings be off? wouldn't there be some ammonia present or nitrIte present?

I'm confused

 

[Polardbear]

Maybe the medication kills of the beneficial bacteria slowly?

 

[Elisabeth83]

Hmmm yeah maybe

I'm getting worried though because I'm on day 2 of treatment 2 and I'm not seeing any improvements...

I've got some home-made melafix...I wonder if I should try that.. a lot of people say it's great stuff yet others say it doesn't do a thing

 

[WILDER]

Yours reading are good wouldn't worry about it, if you do get a nitrite reading get a sponge from another tank and add it to the filter, what fish has the fungus as a salt bath might help to speed things up, some meds to take a while to kick in.

 

[Polardbear]

What's the active ingredients in the JBL med? If the 2nd treatment doesn't help I'd switch to a different antibiotic. I've had some success with Kanamycin. The salt bath's that Wilder suggested do seem to help so you might give that a try as well.