Copper and quarantine

[Jpcrash1]

Hi, do you guys treat all new incoming fish wiith copper even if they don't have ich? Is this a good idea for all fish ( tangs especially )?

 

[thegrun]

No, and I would say it is a bad idea. Copper is a poison, it's just less toxic to the fish than most parasites and some fishwill not survive copper treatments. I do use the tank transfer method on all new fish and use PraziPro on the second and fourth transfers. If you have wrasses, best to treat them at only 80% of the recommended dosage of PraziPro, they are sensitive to it.

 

[scooter31707]

No, and I would say it is a bad idea. Copper is a poison, it's just less toxic to the fish than most parasites and some fishwill not survive copper treatments. I do use the tank transfer method on all new fish and use PraziPro on the second and fourth transfers. If you have wrasses, best to treat them at only 80% of the recommended dosage of PraziPro, they are sensitive to it.

Agreed!!!

 

[face2face]

Hey guys just want to say that i went to a lfs and they told me that you had to copper qt all your fish. Well didnt like that so was checking there fish out and behold one fish with bumbs (ICK)

 

[face2face]

Hey guys just want' to say that I went to a lfs the other day and ask them about quarantine and they told me that I should use copper all the time on fish. I didn't like that so I started to check out their fish and there i see a fish with raise bumbs slightly White (ICK)