Pipefish Quarantine

[the_reef_keeper]

Hi,
I have a few questions about Quarentining Blue stripe pipefish because hopefully their tank will be ready and established by Christmas time.
1) do you QT your pipefish?
2) what methods do you use?
3) what medications do you use and what are some pipefish-safe meds ?
4) how do you feed your pipefish during QT?
5) what are common diseases and parasites i should know about?
6) anything else I should know?

Edit: I forgot to mention that I am thinking about doing the tank transfer method with every other tank (2,4,6) having PraziPro for the last 24 hours of each treatment and in between each transfer a bath in Paraguard and then QT for 2 more weeks
7) does this seem to extreme and stressful for pipefish?

Thanks and happy reefing :)

 

[code4]

I would feed baby brine shrimp and or nutramar ova. Sorry I can not help with your other questions. But yes, quarantine.

Shelley

 

[the_reef_keeper]

Any pipefish keepers feel free to share your experiences :)

 

[the_reef_keeper]

Guess not too many people are keeping pipefish...... :(

 

[Giraffe0621]

Guess not too many people are keeping pipefish...... :(

Check out Paul B's threads -- he keeps several types of pipefish (and has great success)!

 

[the_reef_keeper]

Yeah I checked out those threads. They are really interesting except paul B doesn't QT his pipefish so i still have a lot of questions here!