fernalfer
05/18/2016, 03:55 AM
OK so I have a 120 gallon setup cycled and ready to go fish less right now with nothing in it. Ghost feeding flake food every now and then just to keep bacteria happy. I bought my first fish 4 days ago and placed him in QT. A Lemon peel mimic tang. He has a great personality and eats like a pig from day 1 when I brought him home from LFS. Now treatment. Do I just observe this fish for illness or disease or do I actually treat him for stuff he may not even have. I have cupramine and prazipro on hand. Now the prazipro I don't mind giving him to treat for flukes or parasites because its not to harmful but treating with copper to a fish that is in great looking healthy condition bothers me. I almost feel I may take this healthy, happy, hungry fish and possible hurt him or even degrade his overall health by treating him for stuff he may not even have. Tough time stressing a unstressed fish for no reason. Please help me with this concept and what I should do moving forward. I mean he is my first fish so it's not like he can go into my main display and wipe out the tank, it's empty. And catching him if he does come down with something will be easy because when I put my hand in the tank he comes right up to me. Like I said very outgoing fish. Hate to keep him in a 20 gallon QT if he really does not need to be. I understand the concept behind quarantine, but not sure I agree using toxic substances to treat a fish that may not even be sick. (Kind of like telling someone we are going to give you chemotherapy just incase you have cancer)