How long would you quarantine healthy fish?

[FishTri]

I just got a large Foxface, five chromis, and a lawn mower Blenny. They came from an established tank and the previous owner says he hasn't introduced anything wet in the past nine months.

They are all in a 30 gallon quarantine tank for the last 48 hours.

Especially with the Foxface (he's a big guy, six to seven inches long) I don't really want to leave him in this relatively small tank too long.

If these were new fish from the LFS I would quarantine for 45-60 days. What about these fish that are healthy and come from an established tank? How long before I put them in the display tank?

 

[WuHT]

1 week to 10 days.. it really depends on the big guy and how he handles from being in a full size tank to 30 gallons. IMO since the foxface isn't exactly a roaming fish, it should be fine. My foxface is either in a eat or chill by the rocks type fish.

 

[RegalAngel]

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showpost.php?p=16566626&postcount=23

 

[prickles]

who says you can trust fellow reefers? Have you ever gotten lazy about adding a fish? you want to be told, "just add em" but you know the right answer is the same quarantine procedure you always use. Stick to your guns, 30g isn't that small for 7 fish for 6 weeks.

 

[SDguy]

I had flukes finally make themselves noticeable after 6 weeks of QT on a couple butterflies. Something to think about...

 

[snorvich]

Peter, do you always treat for flukes on butterfly and angels?

 

[SDguy]

Peter, do you always treat for flukes on butterfly and angels?

"always" - I guess... I don't really go through that many fish

 

[FishTri]

Not sure I followed the last exchange regarding flukes. Looks like the flukes were not treated for until after six weeks when the made themselves noticeable.

At that point, what was the treatment? Fresh water dip?

 

[SDguy]

I dunno, it just made it sound like I'm processing a new butterfly or angel every other month

I have treated both meredithis, and all my butterflies for flukes, except the pair of yellow longnoses, since they showed no signs after 2 months in QT, and were not eating well enough, IMO, to risk not eating for 3-5 days during treatment.

The two butterflies in QT currently got FW dipped, and prazi for 4 days. I could not go longer, since they do not have the fat stores to go longer without food.

 

[stunreefer]

Peter, out of curiousity, did they stop eating while under Prazi?

I've only seen fish actually stop eating when they were trying to pass internal parasites while under Prazi, everything else continued as normal.

 

[SDguy]

Peter, out of curiousity, did they stop eating while under Prazi?

I've only seen fish actually stop eating when they were trying to pass internal parasites while under Prazi, everything else continued as normal.

Yes. The collare continued to eat live blackworms (but refused all frozen), while the dot-dash hybrid refused to eat anything, though it looked like it REALLY wanted to. It has never been voracious, though. I plan to fatten them up and treat one more time in a few weeks.