I’ll soon be receiving a Bali Aquarich Captive-Bred Regal Angelfish from Reef Beauties. Since Angelfish are sensitive to copper and this fish was captive-bred & expensive, I’ve considered taking 1 of the following approaches:
A) Following the standard quarantine process in the sticky.
B) Following the standard quarantine process in the sticky, but slowly raising the copper over 4 days to 2.0 and maintaining at that level with Hanna checker.
C) Doing a very minimal observational quarantine that would likely entail making sure the fish eats, ensuring there are no signs of obvious illness, then moving to an isolation box in the DT until comfortable eating there. DT has $1300 pounds of live rock/sand, and $320 of fish (firefish and anthias). The Regal is a $300 fish.
I’m sort of leaning towards Option C, because it seems least likely to result in the QT/me being the cause of downfall to the fish. Thoughts on these options or any modifications you would make to the standard QT process for this fish?
A) Following the standard quarantine process in the sticky.
B) Following the standard quarantine process in the sticky, but slowly raising the copper over 4 days to 2.0 and maintaining at that level with Hanna checker.
C) Doing a very minimal observational quarantine that would likely entail making sure the fish eats, ensuring there are no signs of obvious illness, then moving to an isolation box in the DT until comfortable eating there. DT has $1300 pounds of live rock/sand, and $320 of fish (firefish and anthias). The Regal is a $300 fish.
I’m sort of leaning towards Option C, because it seems least likely to result in the QT/me being the cause of downfall to the fish. Thoughts on these options or any modifications you would make to the standard QT process for this fish?