Kole Tang and API General Cure Question

[ubiq]

Received a Kole tang a few days ago and am presently quarantining him with Rally Pro, hoping to avoid any copper-related stress. He seems perfectly healthy, although ignoring the nori clipped in the tank. I'm wondering if General Cure can or should be used prophylactically with new, apparently healthy, fish.

 

[nereefpat]

I don't specifically use General Cure as a prophylactic, but every fish I take in gets Prazi, which is one of the ingredients.

Kole should be able to handle it fine. It kind of depends on your personal QT philosophies.

 

[Qasimja]

i always use copper power on every fish plus metroplex and prazipro though if you dont want to use copper if you monitor them for a month if they dont have velvet after the first week or two they should be good since it takes out fish so quickly. at the very least i would use general cure since it has metroplex and prazi together

 

[ReefPig]

Received a Kole tang a few days ago and am presently quarantining him with Rally Pro, hoping to avoid any copper-related stress. He seems perfectly healthy, although ignoring the nori clipped in the tank. I'm wondering if General Cure can or should be used prophylactically with new, apparently healthy, fish.

For what it's worth, my white tail bristletooth refuses nori on a clip, hasn't even nibbled on it, had him a year and i've tried countless times with various different types.
He loves algae growing in the tank though.

 

[ubiq]

Since the posting, I've figured out what I was doing wrong. I was clipping unfolded sheets of nori that were just waving in the flow. I doubled the strip and then folded it into a tight packet. It seems that the tang requires some resistance in order to feed, as it would have if it were growing on a rock. He's (it's?) now taking algae from the clip, as well as from nori rubber-banded to a piece of rubble.