Quarantine Question

[Carl Cardarelli]

Should I use copper power as a quarantine procedure or Hypo (.09) Salinity instead. for 21 days. Second question if the fish in the quarantine after one week look great is it necessary to use copper or hypo treatment for 21 days or just leave them in quarantine for a month without treatment?

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Should I use copper power as a quarantine procedure or Hypo (.09) Salinity instead. for 21 days. Second question if the fish in the quarantine after one week look great is it necessary to use copper or hypo treatment for 21 days or just leave them in quarantine for a month without treatment?

I use coppersafe for 30 days, but copper power is similar, so go 30 days at full dose with that. Hypo also needs to go 30 days. The benefit of hypo is that it also controls Neobenedenia flukes. The drawback is some fish are more stressed by hypo than by copper.
Just observing fish is often a mistake, with various diseases showing up later on if the fish get stressed.
Jay

 

[JSchwarz]

I agree with the not just doing observation. I had a royal gramma that showed no signs of ich at the LFS or in QT. I dosed Prazipro and and day later he was covered in spots. The stress of the medication helped reveal the ich.

 

[Carl Cardarelli]

I use coppersafe for 30 days, but copper power is similar, so go 30 days at full dose with that. Hypo also needs to go 30 days. The benefit of hypo is that it also controls Neobenedenia flukes. The drawback is some fish are more stressed by hypo than by copper.
Just observing fish is often a mistake, with various diseases showing up later on if the fish get stressed.
Jay

Thanks for input.

 

[Carl Cardarelli]

I agree with the not just doing observation. I had a royal gramma that showed no signs of ich at the LFS or in QT. I dosed Prazipro and and day later he was covered in spots. The stress of the medication helped reveal the ich.

Thanks for input

 

[Alex’s Reef]

You could try Chloroquine Phosphate or CP as a replacement for chelated copper sulfate. It treats for ich, velvet, brook and uronema all in one. It's quite pricey but that's the route I'd go if quarantining.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

You could try Chloroquine Phosphate or CP as a replacement for chelated copper sulfate. It treats for ich, velvet, brook and uronema all in one. It's quite pricey but that's the route I'd go if quarantining.

I've not been able to find a source for Chloroquine in the US since last year due to people buying it for Covid "treatment" and then the government shut down all of the sources.

Jay

 

[Alex’s Reef]

I've not been able to find a source for Chloroquine in the US since last year due to people buying it for Covid "treatment" and then the government shut down all of the sources.

Jay

Chloroquine Phosphate

store.nationalfishpharm.com

Here ya go

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Chloroquine Phosphate

store.nationalfishpharm.com

Here ya go

I had been told that they were out of stock, maybe they got more in? Sent them an email. The other three vendors that I know of got cease and desist orders from the government saying that they had to stop selling it.
Jay

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

I had been told that they were out of stock, maybe they got more in? Sent them an email. The other three vendors that I know of got cease and desist orders from the government saying that they had to stop selling it.
Jay

We must really be a bunch of morons. Because the WORDS sound similar, the government stepped into private Enterprise to protect us all!!

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Chloroquine Phosphate

store.nationalfishpharm.com

Here ya go

Funny, apparently is the retail outlet for Fishman Chemical, one of the firms that had to stop selling it last year.
They do have it stock now.
Jay