Anthias Quarantine ?

[reefrick.M]

I have 2 Lyretail Anthias in quarantine. I picked them up at a LFS. They had just come in the day before. I've had them for 2 days now and there eating well. My question is should I just feed and obverse or do you recommend any kind of prophylactic treatment? Quarantining fish is a practice I'm just starting to take up.

Thanks Rick

 

[Chibils]

Definitely prophylactic treatment. Most lfs will have prazipro (which is what most anthias owners here use). The most effective way I've heard of doing it was to guy-load it into bbs, as they "filter feed" whatever is in the water for their first day or so of life.

No fish can resist live brine.

 

[Apercula]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13120257#post13120257 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Chibils
Definitely prophylactic treatment. Most lfs will have prazipro (which is what most anthias owners here use). The most effective way I've heard of doing it was to guy-load it into bbs, as they "filter feed" whatever is in the water for their first day or so of life.

No fish can resist live brine.

How many feedings of prazisoaked food? I have a lyretail anthias trio in qt that are all eating frozen mysis pretty well, and nibbling at my frozen mix. I was planning on waiting till they are eating more aggressivly then doing prazi and an external fluke treatment just to be safe, they are from divers den so I expect they have had some treatments already.

 

[Chibils]

If they're from the diver's den, I'd go ahead and add them to the tank. The good doctors do prophylactic treatments as well as intensive qt/observation on all Diver's Den fish.

 

[Apercula]

Thanks for the advice. Im going to keep them in qt till they are more aggressively eating my frozen mix, then ill put them in.