quarantine

I’m starting a coral QT and am planning to use aquaforest reef salt. My question is do I need to add bottled bacteria to the tank and seeded biospheres? My nitrates and phosphates will essentially be 0. Do I dose Seachem Reef Nitrogen and Phosphorus to bring the nutrients up so that the corals...

Is the directions for API general cure correct for flukes? Or would you have to space it apart 7 days like Prazi pro. Was thinking of doing day 1 dose day 4 dose then day 8-9 dose one last time. Would that be correct? @Jay Hemdal @vetteguy53081

I just received a Collare (Pakistani) Butterfly fish on Tuesday from my favorite online retailer. I have it in QT like I do all my fish. Two days ago, I noticed it had a weird bump on the side of its head. The bump is on the fish's left side, on the white stripe, just above its eye level. I have...

Hey guys, I’m getting an approximately 3.5” tang next week and I’m setting up qt for it. I have either a 20 gal or my old 50 gal display I could use as a temporary qt tank. But then I thought about my ato reservoir that’s attached to my sump…. It’s 18” by 12”, holds about 20-30 gallons. Could...

Hello all. I am starting a new tank due to pests I got when i was new to the hobby and didnt dip or QT anything (aptaisa, blue clove polyps, bubble algea, vermetid snails, red planaria) I am wondering if you all think dipping and scrubbing the skeletons ( mostly lps corals) and using hydrogen...

Hello, I've posted similarly before but am still uncertain how to get my fowlr tank definitely cleaned - I have a 55 that has ich in it (anything new added gets ich) but has a hippo tang, maroon clown and snowflake eel that have absolutely no discernible symptoms if ich. They look good, no...

Have had nothing but bad experiences with saltwater fish from PETCO. The problem is unlike your local LFS which treat and take care of diseases like ich velvet and flukes PETCO stores do not. The dangers are very clear all their saltwater Fish are wild caught as well their tanks are contaminated...

Wanted to know what ways it would be possible to save beneficial bacteria for whenever setting up QT so you don’t have to wait for the cycle process to start. Ovbvioulsy easiest would be to take something from main display I guess but then you wouldn’t be able to use that again. There are...

Hello all, After being in another coral sale WhatsApp group I have once again come upon the cycle... That cycle being the sale of corals.. then someone saying their fish is sick, people trying to identify / instruct QT and so forth... The back to sale of corals. The cycle repeats. When...

Would like to know which one recommend doing. I am doing 14-16 days in copper power at 2.5 ppm and then either deciding to do two courses of either API general cure or Prazi pro which one would be better? Prazi pro or general cure? 20 gallon qt tank with pre made saltwater and will have a hob...

Hi guys! I was giving my little temporary QT tank a more thorough lookover because I wanted to start getting the new corals out of there and into their home tanks when I saw a nudibranch just cruising along - and then I saw another working on the new zoas. I yanked those two out right away. I...

Hello to all. I have a reef tank that got ick 1-2 months ago. The fish were living happily until now but there is a huge outbreak and everything is going downhill. My stock fishlist is: 2 dartfish 2 clowns 1 small hippo tang 1 large kole tang 1 foxface 1 flame angel 1 watchman goby 5 chromis 1...

Hi all, Got a tiny blue tang that I have in an observation tank. Haven’t medicated yet. Had him for a week now. 2 days ago marks popped up around his shoulder. Thought it was a scratch but hasn’t gone away. Thoughts? Doesn’t appear to be ich or velvet so maybe flukes? Thinking of treating with...

Hi folks, I have a helfrichi firefish in 20G QT with cycled filter media. I noticed recently that there is a small split in his caudal fin. His other fins look to be in good shape. I tested for ammonia levels with a tropic Marin test kit and they don’t seem too high. I’d appreciate any opinions...

Has anyone done a copper qt on one of the tank bred regal angelfish? I’ve one ordered but heard they come in super small and I’m worried copper (power) would have a larger toll on such a small fish’s system any advice ? Also going to formalin dip and prazi TIA

I have a 2.5 year old Emperor Angelfish that recently stopped eating. No major changes to the tank since adding new fish 12 months ago. Fins are a little beaten up but not sure who did it, or if it happened in its own. The emperor occasionally shakes its head, but I may be seeing things that...

I added Fritz maracyn to 30 gallon Fowler tank. After this is when my fish started to die off. My coral beauty died 2 of my clownfish died. Only fish still alive are my goby green chromis and blue damsel fish. There is no ich or velvet I don’t know what’s going on. Added 2 packets of the maracyn...

Good afternoon y’all, I’ve got a bit of an issue I was hoping I could receive some guidance on. A little backstory- I just started my first saltwater tank a few months back, it’s a 32 biocube. Prior to that years ago I had a 90 gallon fancy goldfish freshwater tank I loved with everything I had...

I know dry rock and sand is strongly discouraged in quarantine tanks due to the absorption they cause. Has anyone had success keeping rocks or sand while keeping and maintaing therapeutic levels of copper? Would the rock/sand eventually reach a saturation point where it can no longer absorb any...

Have been trying to introduce black bar reef chromis into my 125 gallon reef tank but having high mortality. I ordered 7 from live Aquaria and only Some of these didn’t look great. Missing tails and a big red spot on one of them. Treated them with paracleanse and maracyn but I only one of them...

I've been quarantining for 6 weeks and my clownfish have been doing great (took 1 week and were better- thought it was velvet because they seened like they had velvet. However, my purple tang still has this splotchy Skin disease and The Copper power is being treated at 2.45-2.65 for the entire...

So next week I will be done with my mass-QT. I am planning to then use the Hikari PraziPro. I had some questions about it that I wanted to ask before running the PraziPro. 1. I know I need to dose PP twice, 8 days apart, but my confusion is, do I need to perform 100% water change on my current...

Got my third copperband recently and it finally was a healthy specimen that eats everything I give -mysis, reef frenzy, flakes, everything. Currently my display tank is undergoing fallow period so all my fish are on a 55g QT tank. While everything has been good for 4 weeks of Copper treatment...

So I purchased a small ritteri and immediately placed him in a QT setup with cipro starting on day 2 when it began to expel the brown substance. Eventually it stopped deflating and looked good for the main tank. I waited 2 weeks since it last expelled till I put it in the DT. Current status...

Hi, Currently I got ich breakout in my DT and I am quarantining all my fishes in a QT tank, while my tank is running fallow. Meanwhile I have been thinking of adding more fishes to the tank. To be more specific, adding more fishes that are sensitive to Cu treatment and time it in a way where I...