quarantine fish

I apologize since I'm sure this has been asked a million times and I know I heard this question on a podcast somewhere but can't remember which one. I've had a purple tang in quarantine for the past 2 weeks at therapeutic level copper power (2.5ish). Thankfully he is doing super well even after...

I have 2 purple tangs, 1 yellow tang, 2 sailfin tangs, 1 gem tang, 1 yellow eye kole tang, 1 blue hippo, 1 scopas, 1 bicolor fox face, 1 one spot fox face, 1 koi tang, 1 six line wrasse, 1 baby azure damsel and 5 green chromis. all relatively large except the damsel. I was gonna disperse them...

Naturally the fish is a big investment, but it seems suppliers who can get them on a somwhat regular basis Anyone had recent experience with them? I've done a lot of research on how hard they are to keep but there's a lot of mixed opinions. To me it's sounds like the can be a lot of issue...

OK so long story short around March 9, 2024 I noticed my fish (2 clowns) breathing heavily and I didn't know what was going on. I bought at that time, a cardinal fish from my local fish store and thought maybe it was a disease brought by that new fish. It was weird because my two clown fishes...

Hey yall Had this guy for 2 months in QT, was planning on keeping him but got a flaming prawn goby that could fit in his mouth so not going to risk it It has been thru 2 week prazi and 5 week of copper safe. Eats everything, pellets and frozen Asking $90 plus shipping Doa policy: Three...

This foxface has been in QT alone for about a week now. Coppersafe is at 2.20 ppm. He does move to eat whenever I feed it, but otherwise he's often lying at the bottom of the tank not moving around much. It occasionally picks at the bottom of the tank, I'm assuming it's trying to eat some...

I know that this has been similarly asked before, but I'm just nervous to add my little guys into their big home. I have had my Biota yellow tangs for 3 weeks now. They are in a 40 gallon quarantine and doing great nibbling on nori, taking pellets, and eating frozen. They have mini skirmishes...

I have a pair of clowns who were acting so strange. I had them for 9 months now and i noticed they were swimming weird, breathing super fast, and they weren’t eating. Long story short I now have them in quarantine and added copper. They’re doing soooo much better. I am so relieved to see them...

Its just difficult not to overfeed when you're trying to entice a new fish to start eating. I won't bore you with the ammonia spike in my QT tank, but it happened just a week after adding one fish to my newly cycled 20G QT tank. I hadn't even added copper yet. At the moment I'm using an...

Unpopular opinion; I only quarantine my fishes for only 10 days I start my 10 days after my copper reaches 2.0-2.5. When I first started the hobby I was plagued with ich/velvet. I killed many many fishes when I did not quarantine. Its has been 2 years since I started this quarantine process...

Hi all, I'm new to the forum but have a question! As the title suggests, my coral beauty suddenly died whilst in QT. It has been eating very well for 6 days and swimming around comfortably. It's also with a dartfish and black spot foxface as I'm treating them all together. The QT tank is...

My fish just completed a 30 day long treatment of Cupramine at 0.5ppm last week. I have added Cuprisorb and Carbon in the tank to try to absorb as much copper as possible. I have also been doing more frequent water changes. The quarantine tank is 150 gallons so I am not able to do an extremely...

After stocking my 220g with non quarantined, lfs and random online fish my tank crashed due to velvet. I fallowed for 90 days and swore that would never happen again and decided to buy from Dr Reef as I don’t have the patience or knowledge necessary to quarantine myself. I have placed three...

I currently have a 20g (not a long), and am thinking about upgrading to a 180 and using my current one as a quarantine tank since I already have it. I'd like to get a Tang or two, but I'm not sure if you can keep them in a QT tank that small for the 30+ days required to medicate them.

Greetings everyone, So by the title, you already know we’re currently in a fallow… (80 day mark is set for 12/21) So hopefully I can start re-adding back my fish from QT and no more issues pop up again… First tank background, I have a 96”x36”x30” main display and a plumbed in 6ft/140g ish frag...

I don't have the means to quarantine fish myself and I was looking unto places to quarantine. People local to me say that all online places have lots of problems and was wondering if that was true and what places people recommend.

Is 11 gallons big enough for a quarantine tank? And how could i quarantine Anthias?

Can I use a 5.5G plastic container to quarantine 1 or 2 gobies and similar nano fish for the standard 1.5 month quarantine period with copper? Are there plastics that aren't compatible with copper tretaments? Thanks!

I’m starting a 90 gal mixed tank which I have decided to practice full eradication instead of the management techniques. I’ve run tanks in the past using the dump and pray method and while I generally got lucky I want the peace of mind this time. The tank is a 90gal I got off Facebook...

QUARANTINE! I've really dove into the rabbithole of QT. It's not really something that people in my reefing community do on this side of the world and gratefully having the space I thought i'd attempt to do so as best I can. I would appreciate any and all help to improve or remind me of what I...

Is this a good kit to buy? It's 20 gallons, hood, heater, light, and filter. Only thing I "dont" like is the filter. Will it be good enough for just a few weeks worth of quarantine at a time...

Hey everyone. So I have a 135g Mixed reef. I believe that my Blue Hippo Tang (newest addition- added 1.5 months ago) got Brooklynella and gave it to my yellow tang. The hippo is looking in very rough shape. Discolored patchy face, jagged fins, not eating and hiding (2 -3 days now). I hadn’t...

I’m planning on starting a new setup with the reefer 350. I want to also build a simple quarantine tank and keep my fish in there while my main tank is cycling(20gal). Now my question is; do I need to cycle the quarantine tank? Or will I be fine if I have the right parameters? along with right...

I’m currently quarantining all of my fish and figured while I have the QT up and running it would be a good time to add a new fish. My LFS offered me a great deal on a Yellow Tang, he’s had them in the shop now for over a month, they’re all just under 2 inches, great color and eat well. My QT...

I had this tang in QT for about two months. I am new to the QT portion of the hobby. I was lucky enough to go 4 years with adding fish straight to main tank and nothing happened until luck ran out. So now I am being cautious with that being said I did the Cupramine treatment and two freshwater...