So I was just at the LFS buying some fish for my 60 gallon cube. While there, a guy walks in and just drops off buckets of fish and walks out. The girl working at the LFS said that there wasn't anyway his pipefish was going to survive in their tanks so she asked if I wanted to take it home and give it a shot.
So here I am, with a pipefish.
I have a quarantine tank set up and put it in there with the firefish I got. Last tank I didn't quarantine anything and had lots of problems, so this go round I'm QTing everything I can. I understand that the pipefish need copepods, so what's my best bet here? Keep it in QT and hope it will eat some frozen foods?
I have copepods EVERYWHERE in my DT but like I said, want to QT stuff. I also have a small 5 gallon set up with live rock and sand that has nothing else in it for now. Was planning on using it to QT snails and such, but maybe I can use that for the time being? I wasn't sure if copper will be too harsh on the pipefish. Anyway, I'm kind of rambling here, but basically I guess I'm asking:
Do I need to do anything special while QTing him or just treat him like any other fish.
So here I am, with a pipefish.
I have a quarantine tank set up and put it in there with the firefish I got. Last tank I didn't quarantine anything and had lots of problems, so this go round I'm QTing everything I can. I understand that the pipefish need copepods, so what's my best bet here? Keep it in QT and hope it will eat some frozen foods?
I have copepods EVERYWHERE in my DT but like I said, want to QT stuff. I also have a small 5 gallon set up with live rock and sand that has nothing else in it for now. Was planning on using it to QT snails and such, but maybe I can use that for the time being? I wasn't sure if copper will be too harsh on the pipefish. Anyway, I'm kind of rambling here, but basically I guess I'm asking:
Do I need to do anything special while QTing him or just treat him like any other fish.