Treating Algae with Amoxicillin

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There is also the issue of selection for antibiotic resistant bacteria, in addition to wipeing out your filter bacteria. Use of antibiotics is unwise as you will always have some surviving bacteria and these will be more resistant, so effectively you risk creating a reservoir of antibiotic resistant bacteria in your tank. You would also be killing beneficial bacteria in your fish, most animals including ourseleves have billions of bacteria in their gut with which they have co-evolved over millions of years.