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Yes fine to use with antibiotics and CP, just not with copper.Quick question is it OK to use seachem prime/safe. with ABX?
You should really wait 5-7 days between doses opposed to the 48 hours recommended on the packaging. With a 25% WC in between doses.2 rounds of GC would be
Dose
wait 48 hours dose again
wait 48 hours do 25% water change
and that's it or do you repeat all that again?
thanks
gotcha so thenYou should really wait 5-7 days between doses opposed to the 48 hours recommended on the packaging. With a 25% WC in between doses.
Just the two doses total. No need to repeat.gotcha so then
dose
5 days later 25% water change and dose again
that's 2 rounds? or do i repeat the process again?
What a wealth of information to be had in this thread. One question though, for the 14-day post-medication observation, do you keep them in the 2nd sterile qt that the GC treatment is done in, or moved to a 3rd tank?
Yes it will be. The short of it is use metroplex instead of spectrogram to tackle uronema and brook. You can use both spectrogram and metroplex if you feel it necessary, we tested that as well. But we are testing it more our last batch went well until human error. By the way it will also be a 14 day process but if you only have one QT just use ABX for 14 and copper for 30 and you’ll be fine.Thank you @HotRocks (and @4FordFamily and @Humblefish ) for your information and hard work testing these methods. I will be starting a 125 gallon FOWLR tank soon. I only have space for 1 QT tank, so I cannot transfer to a clean tank after 14 days as your protocol requires. For that reason, I plan to use either @Humblefish 's QT protocol, or the new one that you and @4FordFamily are developing if it is released by the time I start! When you all do release your new protocol, will it be posted on this thread?
As long as your transfer is done at the correct time there is little risk of carrying something over in the water. I would use completely separate equipment, like nets, for each tank. My preferred method is to catch the fish and put them in a transfer container filled with water from the QT they come out of. I move them to the new QT, dump the fish into a strainer to let most of the water through, then add the fish to the new QT (or DT).For the transfer into the sterile qt after 14 days, are there any precautions that need to be taken to minimize contamination, if any? Already have the sterile qt way off in another room, so very little chance for aerosol transmission.
For instance having water from the copper treatment tag along during the transfer. Using different nets/tupperware to catch and release, for example. Or something like catching fish from copper qt, placing them into container with sterile qt water, into another container with sterile qt water, like a sort of rinse done after coral dipping. Am I just way overthinking things?
I do the same, including separate nets etc for each tank.As long as your transfer is done at the correct time there is little risk of carrying something over in the water. I would use completely separate equipment, like nets, for each tank. My preferred method is to catch the fish and put them in a transfer container filled with water from the QT they come out of. I move them to the new QT, dump the fish into a strainer to let most of the water through, then add the fish to the new QT (or DT).
There is a very very slight chance of grabbing a viable tomont when netting the fish out of the copper QT.@HotRocks Why are you putting copper in the transfer bucket if they are going into new QT that has no copper?