LaloJ
Well-Known Member
Hello everyone, I have mentioned on a few occasions that unfortunately you cannot get good quality fish here in my area. I live in Mexico. The distributors handle tanks where the fish arrive and leave immediately. The fish arrive extremely stressed and in poor condition and are sold to hobbyists in the same way. It's a place where the fish move quickly and they are holding tanks that are never sterilized, resulting in a wide variety of parasites and bacterial agents that sneak directly into the tanks of us aquarists. Some specialists here in Mexico have even come to the conclusion that these parasites have mutated in the distributors' tanks and are more difficult to eradicate. These fish are exposed to parasites of this type when they are imported and placed in these tanks while awaiting sale. I have had the opportunity to talk with very experienced aquarists here in Mexico, doing long quarantines for fish that are imported particularly and don't go through the distributors' tanks, they have eliminated diseases based on copper and some antibiotics for bacterial infections, however they have different opinions about various medications that are offered in the market, according to what I was able to gather I got the following:
Cupramine: Works fine
Cooper power: Works fine
Ruby reef Rally pro: It's useless
Kick ich: It's useless
Prazipro: Works fine
Formalin: Works fine
Hydroplex: It's useless
Paraguard: It's useless
These advanced aquarists mention that the medications that "useless" are credited with the success of having eradicated the disease, when in reality it's the fish that overcome the parasite by themselves thanks to their immune system, giving a false success of the medication used. So let me know what you think, and as for the title of this thread, what would be your method to do QT with fish that have a poor quality like the ones I'm mentioning? What medication would you use and for how long would you leave them in quarantine? Knowing that they are very stressed fish, that have not eaten for a long time, in poor conditions and exposed to parasites that are probably more resistant to medications.
Cupramine: Works fine
Cooper power: Works fine
Ruby reef Rally pro: It's useless
Kick ich: It's useless
Prazipro: Works fine
Formalin: Works fine
Hydroplex: It's useless
Paraguard: It's useless
These advanced aquarists mention that the medications that "useless" are credited with the success of having eradicated the disease, when in reality it's the fish that overcome the parasite by themselves thanks to their immune system, giving a false success of the medication used. So let me know what you think, and as for the title of this thread, what would be your method to do QT with fish that have a poor quality like the ones I'm mentioning? What medication would you use and for how long would you leave them in quarantine? Knowing that they are very stressed fish, that have not eaten for a long time, in poor conditions and exposed to parasites that are probably more resistant to medications.
