quarantine

I am thinking about getting a female blue star leopard wrasse from liveaquaria. I have a 55g with about a 2 inch sand bed. On liveaquaria it says that they are expert only, i read that some say that is only because they don’t do well with the shipping process? So if i get one, should i...

I am doing the TTM for preventing Ich and Velvet and dosing Prazi at day 2 and 8. I have personalized this protocol from information gather from Humble Fish and several R2R threads. I have read a lot of people advising to keep the fish in observation for 14 days after QT, but I am wondering if...

Starting up a fishless tank, corals and cuc only. How long do you need to quarantine your corals / cuc before adding them to the DT? I've been reading about 76 days in qt to eliminate all strains of ich, but what if you don't have to worry about ich or other fish diseases?

My 250g (total) fish only system has been up for about six or seven months. In the first week of June I will be transferring all the fish into a 550g system. When I started I bought 13 fish and added a quarantine dose of either Copper Power or Cuprimine (I have forgotten which). 8 have...

Yesterday morning, i received 5 lyretails, 2 wrasses, a small sailfin, and a fish the seller accidentally sent (yellow watchman). I did a 30 min float and safety dipped them before putting them in the 80 gallon qt. I ordered 5 females but i think the seller sold me 2 females that are...

Currently treating my YWG for a bacterial infection with Metroplex. He’s been in the QT for about 2 weeks now and everything seemed to be going great until tonight. Got home to feed him and turned on the lights to see a zombie looking fish. Super pale, brown stripes across his back and a brown...

Fish came from a really nice store, they had been treated with cupramine in the store and held in a separate water system that I purchased them out of; any protocol for treatments? Should I treat for any parasite or any disease at all; or just watch the fish for a bit? Seems really healthy...

I have a good on my main display so I rarely need to top it off but for my quarantine it’s a different story. Does TDS matter for topping off a quarantine because I have an RO filter for drinking? It’s around 50-80 TDS.

About to treat my YWG for a bacterial infection using kanaplex and metroplex. Does anyone keep their QT running 24/7 or just start it up whenever you need to? Do you continue the cycle fishless using bottled ammonia or just keep a fish in there at all times?

I am considering a group of 10 Lyertail Anthias from LFS. One of the Lyertails in the tank appears to be career of popeye disease (see attached pics). Should I assume that the rest of the Shoal are infected too? What’s the best course of action at this junction ?

One of the big concerns people seem to have with Quarantine Tanks is the additional cost. After dropping hundreds to thousands of dollars on a Display Tank, the last thing many might be inclined to do is buy another set of equipment that they will only use infrequently... After a trip to Petco...

Recently I received a shipment of cardinal fish with frayed fins. All fish we're talking about here are in a QT. Despite treating with neoplex/metroplex/furan-2 for basically 2 rounds, all fish that arrived with frayed fins died. All fish without frayed fins have looked great and done well...

Hi, is this ich? my hippo tang seems well and normal. Eating well, no unusual behaviour etc it has been in my tank for over 9 months now. I can’t see any spots on any other fish. Everyone else seems fine. I have a QT tank I can get up and running if needed. if this is ich can someone point...

Since starting reefing about 7 months back I’ve read every thread I could find on QT, copper, cycling, and just about everything else. It seems there’s a bit of a catch 22 when it comes to this topic. Summary of my take away points combining different threads: 1) Fish die quickly without a...

Can you skip quarantining if you order from an online place that pre-quarantines for you? Is this effective/safe? For example, this site: https://drreefsquarantinedfish.com/quarantined-fish/ Thinking about ordering from them. Anyone have any thoughts/experience with this?

So I am in the process of setting up my first saltwater aquarium and want to follow the best practices possible. So I am planning on quarantining everything including corals before I put them in my dt. So my questions are as follows: - Do I setup my Dt and qt at the same time and just let my...

Hi, So I have a spare 5 gallon tank that I want to use to QT some corals, allowing me to finally add some beginner corals to my 30 gallon tank. Would a tank this size be too small? I was hoping to just buy a simple light for the qt and then put some easy corals like xenia or gsp and maybe some...

Thinking about getting a blue tang and a yellow tang from Marine Collectors for around $400 total. My LFS would be around $150 for both. Is it worth the extra money for the quarantine because I know blue tangs are ich magnets so will it just get ich again once I add him to my main display or...

So I rarely do this but after the experience I had with Quarantinefish.us, I just had to post something. to start off, this is, by far, the single best place i have EVER gotten anything from regarding anything to to with an aquarium. I found the website on this forum and, after some trouble...

Looking for some advice specific to this quarantine I have 6 tank-raised banggai cardinalfish in quarantine right now. After 5 days, they seem to look healthy, no signs of aggression or disease. They are swimming normally (for this species) and eating. They actively seek food of all kinds, but...

I am preparing my quarantine to get a small blue tang because I know they are SUPER prone to ick. What would be the best way to prepare it? Should I get some marine pure blocks and put them in my filter to colonize the blocks with bacteria or just set up the quarantine and put some bottled...

I had to separate my male clownfish from the tank as he injured his eye and I wanted to treat him in quarantine with some antiseptic and it has now healed and he is ready to go back into the tank. I am a little worried that the female won't recognise him or will be aggressive as they have been...

So i have a used 100 gallon used tank that used to be a reef tank and now im thinking of turning it into a quarantine tank. Im currently using multiple 10-15 gallon tanks for quarantine but im thinking of selling most of them keeping 2 to separate some sensitive fish/fish that need special care...

Hey guys, I'm currently quarantining two small clownfish and one small 6-line wrasse. Over the course of a week I have slowly been bringing them up to therapeutic levels of copper. I am noticing that both clowns have white stringy poop which, (feel free to correct me if I am wrong) are symptoms...

I got a Whitetail Bristletooth Tang from LA's Diver's Den. It arrived yesterday and I put him in QT tank. It swam around for a few minutes and then has been hiding in the PVC ever since. I kept the lights out and so I didn't get to observe it all that well, but I didn't notice it breathing...