QT treatment options

TangsRLife · Dec 7, 2016

I've had my QT set up for about a two weeks now and have a male lyretail anthia in it for a week. He is eating very well and i can no longer observe any stress caused by the transfer. So what now? I'm not are if I Gould dose medications or just observe the 30 day period. Can anyone help me out? The anthia currently isn't showing any signs of ick, velvet, or flukes, but should I still treat for them, or just stick to observation till I see a reason to treat?

jsbull · Dec 7, 2016

This post says it all. http://reef2reef.com/threads/how-to-quarantine.189815/

Whether to observe only or preventatively medicate is up to you. Some people will treat every fish as though they have ick. Others will use Prazipro to take care of the things hard to see, like flukes, but just observe for velvet and ick. Then others will just observe. Definitely give it a full 4 weeks if you don't use copper.

Personally, I don't like using copper because some fish react poorly to it. I just observe and treat early with Prazi. If they are good in 4 weeks, I add them to the DT. However, if it's a tang, CB butterfly, or some other fish highly prone to ick, I'll preventatively treat or do tank transfer method just to be sure. I want to keep my system ick free.

TangsRLife · Dec 7, 2016

How long do you treat praxipro for? Does it put a lot of stress on the fish?

Humblefish · Dec 7, 2016

TangsRLife said:
How long do you treat praxipro for? Does it put a lot of stress on the fish?

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/prazipro.247598/

melypr1985 · Dec 7, 2016

I'm one of those people that will treat every fish as if it has ick. In my experience they mostly all do anyway. I see a lot of fish come through the LFS I work at and I've yet to see a fish that doesn't pop up with ick at some point (at least if they don't go through the copper system that is). At home I like TTM for QT and have copper and many other meds on hand to handle anything else that might pop up during QT.

TangsRLife · Dec 8, 2016

Do you run copper and prazi at the same time? Or start at different times?

Humblefish · Dec 8, 2016

TangsRLife said:
Do you run copper and prazi at the same time? Or start at different times?

You can; however it is always better to treat separately. Every time medications are combined there exists the risk of negative interaction.

melypr1985 · Dec 8, 2016

TangsRLife said:
Do you run copper and prazi at the same time? Or start at different times?

At the store I do, but I don't have many options there and am very careful with how I do it.

Humblefish said:
You can; however it is always better to treat separately. Every time medications are combined there exists the risk of negative interaction.

^^This. At home I run them separately because I have the ability to be more careful with treatment. I'm always on the "better safe than sorry" train.