What’s your thoughts on whether to qt garden eels? I’ve read conflicting information. Some recommend observation for 4-6wks. With possibly treating with prazi or metro if needed. Others recommend just adding them to DT. Mainly due to them being sensitive to environmental stress.
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That’s a tough one. IMO, unless your quarantine is set up with a deep sand bed, just put them onto the display. We would use observational quarantine for 45 days if we were adding eels to a display that already had eels in it (to help protect the existing fish).
Garden eels are known to develop Neobenedenia flukes ( years ago, we wrote that up in a paper because other eels don’t develop that). You can treat that in your DT if it shows up because praziquantel is reef safe.
In case you haven’t seen my article on them:
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