fresh water dip

[pugmommie]

When getting new fish or corals I plan on doing a fresh water dip, but I'm not sure exactly how to go about it.
Can it be as simple as putting fish/corals into ro/di water for 2 min. then corals go into display tank and fish go to QT for awhile.

And how long should a fish be QT'd before going into the display tank?

 

[alleykat81]

I'm not sure on the amount of time (it varies depending on stress on the fish), but I make sure the fw is the same temp and ph as my display tank. I QT my fish approx. 3 weeks (you'll get a lot of different answers on this). This is what works for me, but do some research.

 

[LargeAngels]

Here is some good reading on FW dips: http://atj.net.au/marineaquaria/freshwaterdips.html

FW dips do NOT cure a fish of some parasites, it only removes most from the body. Still best to QT in seperate tank.

 

[pugmommie]

Thanks for the info. Is there any corals or fish that are very sensitive and should not be dipped?

 

[Saltliquid]

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Anything that is not a brackish water species is suseptable to the imense stress from a freshwater bath.

Freshwater baths normally kill through stress or make a haven for more parrasites,but you never know,you might be lucky,maybe!

There are heaps of ways to reduce stress as to not encourage ich or any other variation of these parrasites to flurish in an aquarium situation.

If you need to do 3 things to keep your tank healthy,do 4 or even 5 things!

If you have the room put in as many natural mechanisms as you can to run your tank,than do that as well!

 

[pugmommie]

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14572987#post14572987 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by liquidg
Anything that is not a brackish water species is suseptable to the imense stress from a freshwater bath.

Freshwater baths normally kill through stress or make a haven for more parrasites,but you never know,you might be lucky,maybe!

There are heaps of ways to reduce stress as to not encourage ich or any other variation of these parrasites to flurish in an aquarium situation.

If you need to do 3 things to keep your tank healthy,do 4 or even 5 things!

If you have the room put in as many natural mechanisms as you can to run your tank,than do that as well!

Are you saying I should not dip fish, just qt them. Then what about corals?

 

[Aquadam]

I read that SW fish can stay in FW for up to an hour. The key is to monitor the fish to make sure they are breathing at a normal rate. If they get too stressed out, put them back in SW. I had a percula that had ich real bad and I gave it a FW bath. I left it in the FW for a half hour. I made sure the temp and pH were the same as the DT. I have to mention too, the perc did great in the FW, but later came down with ich again...and that was due to my inexperience with ich...I just put the fish right back in the DT where it came from with the ich in the first place.

 

[LargeAngels]

FW dips are not affective agains ich. If you think it is ich and they fall off in a FW dip then it was actually velvet.

QT the fish.

 

[wingmans10]

No FW dip on the corals, there are products you can use to mix with your SW if you feel the need(not a bad idea by the way)

 

[Terra Ferma]

FW is more of a thing you do while the fish in in quarantine rather than a preventative cure all. It will expedite the exit of certain things, dependent on the hardiness of your fish during FW dip. But it will by no means totally eliminate anything.

Buffering and temp acclimating your FW dip water goes a long ways as far as prolonging the comfort and length of FW dip the fish can take.