So I've had a single blenny hanging out in my 20G QT for a month+, while the display tank stays fallow. Yesterday I got a shipment of fish and added em to the QT, and today, lo and behold, I wake up this morning and the blenny is flashing.
I don't see any signs of disease otherwise. I had intended to do a quarantine treatment with some microbelift products instead of full on copper, but now I am reconsidering that.
(1) Is there a downside to copper treatment, should I just do it?
(2) How long should I wait to be sure that the copper isn't going to interact with the microbelift (Artemiss and Herbtana)? I have put the carbon back in, and did a water change, so levels should be pretty low pretty fast I'd think.
Or, it seems super coincidental that the blenny started flashing just as things started changing in the tank...should I just do nothing until I see more than that? Or am I overthinking it and I should just do the copper regardless, since I've got new fish anyway?
Thanks!
I don't see any signs of disease otherwise. I had intended to do a quarantine treatment with some microbelift products instead of full on copper, but now I am reconsidering that.
(1) Is there a downside to copper treatment, should I just do it?
(2) How long should I wait to be sure that the copper isn't going to interact with the microbelift (Artemiss and Herbtana)? I have put the carbon back in, and did a water change, so levels should be pretty low pretty fast I'd think.
Or, it seems super coincidental that the blenny started flashing just as things started changing in the tank...should I just do nothing until I see more than that? Or am I overthinking it and I should just do the copper regardless, since I've got new fish anyway?
Thanks!