Tetracycline

[sweetp544]

Im treating my tank with tetracycline, i just put the first dose in last night. The package does not say anything about doing a water change before doses. Am I supposed to do that or leave the tank go for the 5 days then do the water change like it says, I dont have any carbon in my filter if that makes a difference or not for the water changes.

 

[Katchan]

If the tank was due to be changed in the next day or so and you do changes fortnightly any sensitve fish MAY have a problem, but if you do changes weekly and the change was supposed to fall sometime in the period of treatment you should be fine

HTH

KC

 

[sweetp544]

Well i have had the carbon out of the tank and was doing daily water changes because i was using fungus medicaiton. That didnt seem to be working so i posted about using tetracycline and started using that. So i was thinking that since i was told it wipes out my filter bios, that if i didnt change it that my ammonia and nitrate levels would become deadly.

 

[sweetp544]

I added my second dose last night and i didnt do a water change. My fish are swimming around a bit fast, so im not sure if thats from the medication or if i really do need to do a water change.

 

[WILDER]

Are they still swimming fast, it happens when you first add a med some times.