quarantine

Hello, I have a new royal gramma that has successfully finished a Copper Power quarantine. I am now ready to dose Prazipro, except I keep finding conflicting information. This is only my third fish, and the first time I am trying to quarantine myself. My clown pair was pre-treated from Dr...

I currently have a 20g (not a long), and am thinking about upgrading to a 180 and using my current one as a quarantine tank since I already have it. I'd like to get a Tang or two, but I'm not sure if you can keep them in a QT tank that small for the 30+ days required to medicate them.

I recently setup a QT tank and my first set of fish will be graduating to the display tank soon. What do people do with the ceramic filter media and plastic filter sponge when the QT tank is not in use? Do people just run the QT tank empty? Or can I put the media and sponge into a bucket and...

Greetings everyone, So by the title, you already know we’re currently in a fallow… (80 day mark is set for 12/21) So hopefully I can start re-adding back my fish from QT and no more issues pop up again… First tank background, I have a 96”x36”x30” main display and a plumbed in 6ft/140g ish frag...

Hi, any idea what kind of thing could this be? I found it already 3 times in my quarantine tank where I have several fish now for one week with UV sterilizer and Ruby Reef Rally.. it looks like internal parasite?… according to the size (approx. 4-5cm) it could be only from Valencienna sexguttata...

Where I live Praziquantel is only available by prescription only. Not as a fish medication - only as a medication for cats, dogs or horses. My vet has found a horse medication which may be suitable for a fish quarantine tank. The things I do to quarantine fish... Nonetheless, this medication...

I was wondering about the possibility of looking for parasites under the microscope as an alternative (or in addition) to quarantine in general. This came to mind in the context of me needing to add a large crew of Emerald crabs to help combat a bubble algae outbreak ASAP. But my interest at...

The LFS in Italy apparently don't believe in keeping captive bred fish and wild caught fish in separate systems. So, if I get seahorses, I'm gonna have to quarantine them. Seahorse expert Pete Giwojna claims hyposalinity at 1.010 - 1.012 SG (13.3 - 16 ppt) is a good treatment for seahorses...

i’m really stressed out and need some ich advice my new coral beauty showed signs of ich, now 5/10 of my fish have a few spots just on their tails. i started a 10 gallon quarantine with copper power right before i noticed how many fish had it. (they are all about an inch but i have a coral...

Good afternoon, I just picked up a Lubbock fairy wrasse as my first ever quarantine fish. He's being a bit shy at the moment but that's expected. He's in a 10 gal with a few pounds of liverock. I drip acclimated for an hour and did my best to wrasse-proof the lid. These are the products I have...

Hello, I will be getting three new fish soon : (1) Longfin clownfish, (1) McCosker's Fairy Wrasse, and (1) Court Jester Goby and I would like to quarantine these fish, but I have never done it before. What process would y'all use to treat these fish? I have a spare 10 gallon, air stone, and...

Hello, My fairly new Fairy Wrasse looks to have a Swim Bladder issue so I'm planning on setting a new quarantine Tank up for him so I can fast him and then feed him on peas to hopefully aleaveate the issue. My question is once I'm done with the quarantine period, do I need to keep the tank...

Let me preface this by saying typically for all new fish I do a full QT that includes copper and meds such as metroplex in my separate QT. I’ve never purchased a fish before that has been aquacultured, especially by a big name brand and not just my LFS. However, I just purchased a baby Yellow...

Hey Everyone! I got these two Banggai’s about 4 days ago. I have them in a 15Gal quarantine tank. I’ve noticed nothing wrong with them other than the one smaller guy has no interest in any food. The bigger one goes at mysis like it’s his job but the small one always darts after it but never...

anyone got any recommendations of alternatives for nitrofurazone cause I want to do the brstv 80/20 quarantine method and I seems to be pretty important to the method. im in the uk and its literally impossible to get it.

I am looking around to find the best Qt service for a few fish that I would like to purchase. Who is the best in the industry?

Hi All, Thanks in advance for your time. I've scoured the internet to find a match with the symptoms i see on my hippo tang but unfortunately, with my inexperience, could not 100% ID the infection. I've tried making pictures with him free swimming but this was near impossible so I had to scoop...

Hi everyone, I have a pair of chromis that have been in copper power at 2.5 for the past 5 days. Knowing that chromis are very susceptible to Uronema, would the disease have shown itself by now, or is it better to start formalin or metro regardless? There is no discoloration on either of the...

Hi everyone, I have had a pair of clowns for about 2 years, and over the last two days I noticed some white splotches on the smaller one. It’s been eating normally and hasn’t had any noticeable change in behavior, but I’m worried that it could be a disease. There haven’t been any new fish...

So I recently upgraded from an old 55g to a RedSea 425. I have also set up a QT tank (doing things the right way). BUT how long do I leave the fish in there? I have two firefish, two Chromis and a wrasse. I am treating with copper, they have been in for two weeks, all doing well. Is this long...

Hi all, Yesterday was a disaster. When getting home from my LFS I drip acclimated two new juvenile engineering gobies. Did a lot of research on them and figured they would be a great addition. When adding the first one it instantly swam into the pistol shrimp/YWG den and got shot up and...

After several years of hesitation I have finally decided to join the reef aquarium hobby. I blame Youtube for pulling me into this potential money pit! One night I found myself watching a video about traveling to Japan to buy high end koi fish. The koi pond videos led me to freshwater planted...

(Tank Move and 8 week update posted in replies, July 30th) Greetings! Doing a bit of an experiment. I will get into more details as to why I am doing this particular plan in future posts. For now, the short version is that I am starting a 10g nano tank as a QT/Observation tank for live rock...

These fish have been in QT in Chloroquine at 60mg/gal for 4 weeks now. They have all gone through 2 doses of General Cure as well back to back. I dosed kanaplex and metroplex 24 hrs ago and havent really seen any affect. Ive been looking through a lot of other threads and no one seems to have...

I'm about to set up a 10G QT tank since I'm dealing with ich in my display tank. Since the QT will be near my display, I wanted to set up something that looks nice. So far the only fish I'll be treating is a filefish. I'm also going to be using copper. That being said, can I add a piece of...