Alright you guys I’m posting today to talk about quarantine! By some miracle I am allowed to quarantine my fish now. I have almost everything. Tanks (2 20g longs from aqueon), filters, heaters, thermometers, 8 bio balls for quick cycle ( they are in my sump collecting good bacteria. 4 each tank), lights, salt (I’m going to be using instant ocean orange bucket and switching over to RS blue bucket for display tank). All I need is the meds, testers, ammonia alerts and instant ocean salt (I can do large water changes for cheap instead of 90 bucks for 160g), and some pvc tubing for habitat. All new fish and DT fish will be fed nori, selcon, garlic, spirulina, mysis, roe, and other foods. Like I have the time to do it. Better to QT then to loose all my fish to a dissease and have to fallow again. Im day 2 into my fallow period.
Questions:
1: if the fish I buy online or at lfs comes in safe do I have to medicate the water assuming it’s infected with something? Or can it just be in there for 2-3 weeks for observation
2: if the store I buy from says their distributor does a 2 week QT and 1 week observation after QT does that mean I have to QT?
3: do I still have to put new fish in observation if I buy them from a website that says they 100% QT their fish?
4: how would I QT inverts and how common is it that inverts transmit things like ich or other infections. If I treat copper for ich then I cant QT inverts in that tank at all.
5: how safe is it to have all of those chemicals around. I will be QTing in my room so I don’t really want to breath flucondazol or something in.
6: I have 2 20g longs so can I QT or observe two different batches of fish in these tanks. I heard about ich aerosolizing and need QT’s 10’ away from each other. Both 20g longs are next to eachother but if I’m treating copper in both tanks wouldn’t it kill the ick on contact with the copper water?
7: what about salinity? Wouldn’t I need an ATO of some kind or will I be doing 100% water changes so it doesn’t matter? I will do more research on treatment methods. An inverted water bottle should work right?
Thanks!!!
Questions:
1: if the fish I buy online or at lfs comes in safe do I have to medicate the water assuming it’s infected with something? Or can it just be in there for 2-3 weeks for observation
2: if the store I buy from says their distributor does a 2 week QT and 1 week observation after QT does that mean I have to QT?
3: do I still have to put new fish in observation if I buy them from a website that says they 100% QT their fish?
4: how would I QT inverts and how common is it that inverts transmit things like ich or other infections. If I treat copper for ich then I cant QT inverts in that tank at all.
5: how safe is it to have all of those chemicals around. I will be QTing in my room so I don’t really want to breath flucondazol or something in.
6: I have 2 20g longs so can I QT or observe two different batches of fish in these tanks. I heard about ich aerosolizing and need QT’s 10’ away from each other. Both 20g longs are next to eachother but if I’m treating copper in both tanks wouldn’t it kill the ick on contact with the copper water?
7: what about salinity? Wouldn’t I need an ATO of some kind or will I be doing 100% water changes so it doesn’t matter? I will do more research on treatment methods. An inverted water bottle should work right?
Thanks!!!