Fish in quarantine

[gman107]

Ok so I bought a 2-3 inch blue girdled angel 2 weeks ago and have him in a 10 gallon observation tank he's eating well flake, frozen , and pellet. My question is should I treat him with any medications or just keep under observation in case something appears? I was planning on 6 weeks of observation.

 

[Big G]

Welcome to R2R! Lots of folks would suggest you treat the fish prophylactically with copper (Cupramine or Coppersafe) and parazipro (liquid parazipro or General Cure-powder). To keep disease from entering your display tank.

 

[4FordFamily]

Welcome to R2R! Lots of folks would suggest you treat the fish prophylactically with copper (Cupramine or Coppersafe) and parazipro (liquid parazipro or General Cure-powder). To keep disease from entering your display tank.

X2. I would be one of those people. I recommend coppersafe.

Make sure you buy an ammonia alert badge to accurately measure ammonia with copper -- as other tests will show false positives.

 

[gman107]

Also in the quarantine tank is a teardrop butterfly treat it as well or put in a separate tank ?

 

[gman107]

And I have the ammonia alert badge in the tank already thanx

 

[Maritimer]

If the fish had been under sub-therapeutic copper treatment in the LFS, ich or velvet can take several weeks to show their evil little faces. Just long enough to lull you into putting the fish into your display.

I'd go for the treatment - either copper (I used Coppersafe as well) or Chloroquine Phosphate ("CP", but difficult to source, as it's prescription only.)

~Bruce

 

[Big G]

And I have the ammonia alert badge in the tank already thanx

Sometimes it is a little hard to read the ammonia alert badge color. Shine a light from behind or angled behind the badge. Works great!