Haha, I’ve only just seen this reply . Think you need to look at it a bit more in perspective to be honest, before you start lynching. Just as I suggested someone would probably attempt to do to me for posting it in the first place. Typical of the sort of unfriendly attitude on this forum of ‘friendly experts ’ I find though, to be honest. I often find on this forum, that you ask a question, and it is quite often met with obtuse answers that seem to be designed to obstruct or part answered questions by people who you know have the full knowledge of what is being asked, and are purposely not giving the full information (if answered at all). As if it pains them to actually give you the knowledge that they have, for some bizarre warped reason!If you aren’t one of the guys that are in ‘the clique’, you tend to not get the info or response you are seeking on this site... It’s pathetic really, like primary school playground politics. Statement drawn from experience of being on this site and observing and participating for 6 years now! Not everyone, but I feel it is quite pervasive.
Anyway, the reason I stuck my neck out and answered this question at the risk of lynching, is because I know for a fact that this cures this common issue of rot that you get with anubias. A condition with this plant that 99% of what you read online about people’s experiences with it, suggests that it is always inevitably fatal once you have it. The reason I shared this controversial knowledge at risk of lynching is because I have the opposite attitude of what I have just described above, that I see and experience so often on this , to quote again ‘friendly site of experts and hobbyists’ I have cured this and I wanted to help the OP before his entire tank of anubias turned to white mush.
So looking at it in perspective then... First of all, the broad spectrum antibiotics given together with the wormer works. Simple as that! Solves the problem, 100 percent! It resolves this common anubias issue that once you have it, is usually fatal to the plant as well as spreading to all the other anubias you have in the tank...
Secondly, the amount of antibiotic you need to to use to do this is minuscule... a small percentage of of one pill put into an 8 litre tank for one week, once only. To treat all your Anubias. It’s not like I’m suggesting you just empty in a full human 2 weeks course of multiple antibiotics into a tank, only to pour away into the watercourse a week later. I’m talking about less than 100mg of antibiotic, total combined mass of all of the different types. Once and once only. Hardly think doing that a couple of times in your whole life is contributing much to worldwide antibiotic resistance being on the rise, when really that is caused by MILLIONS of idiots taking a full weeks or longer course of an antibiotic at say 200mg twice or four times a day, to try to resolve a cold or something else non bacterial. Or some other equally ludicrous example, like this where taking antibiotics actually won’t work at all and all they are doing is indirectly feeding it into the watercourse. Or doctors and dentists prescribing millions of courses of antibiotics for preventative reasons, just to be on the safe side. (Say for example after a wisdom tooth has been removed)
So yes, it is hardly surprising that antibiotic resistance is on the rise when you look at those examples above, but I think your statement alluding to it hardly being surprising that this issue is on the rise when talking about some aquarist like me using a tiny amount of antibiotic to resolve a one off issue, is like suggesting that it’s no surprise the the global greenhouse effect is snowballing because of me injecting CO2 into my 90 litre tank!