Anthias and Hyposalinity Question

[ryanuuy]

Hi guys,

Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with QTing anthias in hyposalinity? I have a friend who is willing to sell me his 2 ventralis anthias but im pretty sure his tank has ich. I QT all my fishes in hypo and quinine sulfate for a month before adding them to my main to make sure its ich free and so far the anthias i have tried have never survived the QT process.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

 

[MrTuskfish]

QT is not a dangerous procedure; if done correctly. Did you treat the other anthias in QT, or just observe? I've never personally treated a ventralis with hypo; but I've never heard of any anthias that can't handle copper or hypo. and have cured and prophylacticly treated many anthias species BTW, just my 2 cents. Buying fish from a known ich-tank is very risky. There is no way of telling how the fish may have been compromised by the ich (especially the gills) or bacterial infections that can follow ich.

 

[jcw]

I treated all my anthias with hypo, and for the most part they all did well.

I had one ignitus die just as I was getting down below 1.010. The others did very well. It started not eating then just died. no lesions, marks. I have a suspicion it may have been a little ammonia from newly mixed saltwater as I was doing 50% plus water changes several days in a row.

That said, they weren't beautiful ventralis anthias, though.

good luck.

As far as the ich tank, I assume all fish are currently "healthy." If this is the case, I wouldn't treat it any differently than a fish from a LFS. I just have a strong belief that most fish that go through the supply chain to your local fish store has been exposed to ich at some point in time.

 

[MrTuskfish]

As far as the ich tank, I assume all fish are currently "healthy." If this is the case, I wouldn't treat it any differently than a fish from a LFS. I just have a strong belief that most fish that go through the supply chain to your local fish store has been exposed to ich at some point in time.

I wouldn't buy a fish at a LFS that knowingly tolerated ich in their tanks either. Sure, some fish (I don't think most), are exposed to ich along the way. But most wholesalers, online dealers, collectors, and many LFS constantly run copper at a level high enough to kill free-swimming ich. I've bought all my fish online for years (lots of fish, moved, bought lots of fish again)...the number of fish I see with ich in my QT is quite low. IMO, tolerating ich is a sign of overall poor husbandry and I think any fish in a system like that should be avoided.

 

[ryanuuy]

I see. Thanks for the advice guys! My main tank im 99% certain has no ich. I kept it fallow for 3 months and i QTed everything with quinine and hyposalinity for 6 weeks before adding. Right now i have an achilles tang, a black ice clown pair, 1 plat clown, and a sunrise dotty. This is a 180g sps reef. Everyone has been ich free and spotless since may but i guess im a bit itchy now to add some other fish.

Of course if there were risks, as much as possible, i would like to avoid them. My friends ventralis have been with him for 4 months and are eating and healthy but he doesnt QT anything and just dumps them in his tank so im fairly certain he has ich there.