Quarantine Help

shawnriv · 03/20/2014, 08:09 PM

Hi Everyone,

I've had my tank running for about eight months and have had a very large learning curve. The tank is a 48 gallon bow with 35 pounds of dry rock (now live), one scarlet skunk shrimp, roughly 40 snails, and one bubble tip sea anemone. My tank had recently had fallen victim to ich and I lost all my fish. I made the mistake of never quarantining my new fish and I've paid dearly. I just purchased myself a fifteen gallon quarantine with a sponge filter and a heater. It has been four weeks since all my fish died from ich and I'm looking to give it another go. I also have purchased Seachem's Paraguard and Cupramine, as well as PraziPro. I've watched the YouTube video from Vivid Aquariums about quarantining new fish preventively and I want to the best for any newly purchased fish. Tomorrow I am picking up two true percula clowns from my LFS and I'm not 100% on how to quarantine them using these preventative medications. According to Vivid Aquariums they say new fish should be medicated with the Cupramine and PraziPro...but clowns should also be medicated with Paraguard as it fights off other parasites and diseases such as Brooklynella. I'd like to know what everyone thinks!

Thanks!

HumbleFish · 03/21/2014, 08:19 AM

I would suggest 2 rounds of Prazi (5 days apart), followed by 4 weeks of Cupramine. Or vice versa. If your clowns develop Brook, that will need to be dealt with via Formalin dips. You don't want to use formalin in-tank.

snorvich · 03/21/2014, 08:20 AM

If you had ich (as opposed to velvet, which is what I think you had based on the mortality time line) you need to leave your tank fallow for 9 weeks. If you had velvet, the fallow period would be six weeks. I use tank transfer to eliminate ich (12 days), always treat with prazipro x2, and then observe for a full 4 weeks after tank transfer.

Newsmyrna80 · 03/21/2014, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by snorvich

If you had ich (as opposed to velvet, which is what I think you had based on the mortality time line) you need to leave your tank fallow for 9 weeks. If you had velvet, the fallow period would be six weeks. I use tank transfer to eliminate ich (12 days), always treat with prazipro x2, and then observe for a full 4 weeks after tank transfer.

+1 Me too

03/20/2014, 08:09 PM	#1
shawnriv Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Rhode Island Posts: 185	Quarantine Help Hi Everyone, I've had my tank running for about eight months and have had a very large learning curve. The tank is a 48 gallon bow with 35 pounds of dry rock (now live), one scarlet skunk shrimp, roughly 40 snails, and one bubble tip sea anemone. My tank had recently had fallen victim to ich and I lost all my fish. I made the mistake of never quarantining my new fish and I've paid dearly. I just purchased myself a fifteen gallon quarantine with a sponge filter and a heater. It has been four weeks since all my fish died from ich and I'm looking to give it another go. I also have purchased Seachem's Paraguard and Cupramine, as well as PraziPro. I've watched the YouTube video from Vivid Aquariums about quarantining new fish preventively and I want to the best for any newly purchased fish. Tomorrow I am picking up two true percula clowns from my LFS and I'm not 100% on how to quarantine them using these preventative medications. According to Vivid Aquariums they say new fish should be medicated with the Cupramine and PraziPro...but clowns should also be medicated with Paraguard as it fights off other parasites and diseases such as Brooklynella. I'd like to know what everyone thinks! Thanks!

03/21/2014, 08:20 AM	#3
snorvich Team RC member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Outlander Posts: 40,953 Blog Entries: 46	If you had ich (as opposed to velvet, which is what I think you had based on the mortality time line) you need to leave your tank fallow for 9 weeks. If you had velvet, the fallow period would be six weeks. I use tank transfer to eliminate ich (12 days), always treat with prazipro x2, and then observe for a full 4 weeks after tank transfer. __________________ Warmest regards, ~Steve~

03/21/2014, 08:19 AM	#2
HumbleFish Moved On Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 4,757	I would suggest 2 rounds of Prazi (5 days apart), followed by 4 weeks of Cupramine. Or vice versa. If your clowns develop Brook, that will need to be dealt with via Formalin dips. You don't want to use formalin in-tank.