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| I use a ten gallon tank filtered with zeolite. I change the zeolite every 4 day's to make sure that it's working properly. I quarantine for at least 4 weeks. The tank has a small flower pot and cave. No gravel, and no lights for the first few day's. and if course a 50W heater. Water change of 20-30% at least 2x week. I feed the fish only what I feed the other fish that it will be introduced to. I have had great success quarantining this way. The one time I didn't quarantine a fish I ended getting a disease in the tank. :angry: Lesson learned. .
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| So, what medications (preferably liquid) should I have on hand for a quarantine tank? Should I just treat regardless of proof of disease? I am assuming that the possibility of ich is the reason for the 4-6 week duration?
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| Unless you're working in a retail/wholesale setting like David Lass, it's not a good idea to mass-treat new arrivals. No medication is a cure-all; you have to know exactly what you're treating for in order to dose your tank and expect results. The thing is, fish medicine, like people medicine, has a shelf life. It expires and becomes useless or even harmful after a certain amount of time - and it's likely that you'll be quarantining fish and having no problems off an on for longer than that medicine is designed to work. It's like buying a lottery ticket. It might pay off, but odds are you're just going to be throwing an expired product away before it's ever used. I'd just wait, and if your fish show signs of specific disease, pick the appropriate medicine up then. You might want to stock a general anti-fungal anti-ich medicine, though, because these conditions are more common and easier to bring on through stress of rehoming. The other drugs? Better to just leave them on the shelf until it's certain you need them.
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| Greetings all, I would like to set up a quarantine tank. My question is, after the quarantine period is over, how do you transfer fish to the regular tank? I assume you would not want to just net them out if the quarantine tank and place them directly in the regular one. How do you acclimate them to the regular tank? Have a super great day! -Allen
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filipem (8/19/2008)
I use a ten gallon tank filtered with zeolite. I change the zeolite every 4 day's to make sure that it's working properly. I quarantine for at least 4 weeks. The tank has a small flower pot and cave. No gravel, and no lights for the first few day's. and if course a 50W heater. Water change of 20-30% at least 2x week. I feed the fish only what I feed the other fish that it will be introduced to. I have had great success quarantining this way. The one time I didn't quarantine a fish I ended getting a disease in the tank. :angry: Lesson learned. . The only thing I do different is raise the temp.,my reg. tank and the quarantine tank are at 79 deg.F,over the course of 3 days I raise it to 90 deg.f.,keep it there for a day to see if anything nasty pops up,med if n\it does and then lower the temp. back to 79 over a 3 day stretch.
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ADSloan (8/19/2008)
Greetings all,I would like to set up a quarantine tank. My question is, after the quarantine period is over, how do you transfer fish to the regular tank? I assume you would not want to just net them out if the quarantine tank and place them directly in the regular one. How do you acclimate them to the regular tank? Have a super great day! -Allen I went to my local grocery store(it has a deli) and bought two of those large clear plastic containers they put salads and such in(if there ok for my food,there ok for my fish),and attached a handle from an old net to the container.I place this into the quarentine tank then with a small net guide the fish into the container lift it out and place it into the main tank. i then take one container of water from the main tank and add it back to the quarentine tank,just to keep the water level balanced.;)
Shakespere says...to be or not to be? Fish hobbiests say....To buy or not to buy!
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