I have 3 lyretails currently in QT. The are in a 20L and have been in there 10 days. They are all females. Two are small and one is medium size. The medium one is changing to male and has the elongated spine but no color change. Its clearly the dominant one. For the first 8 days they had a hiearchy and were behaving normal and eating fine. Yesterday, the middle female in the chain seemed to be more afraid of the male and was staying hiding a bit but still eating. Just not as ravenously. Today, she did not eat. She looks healthy otherwise and her fins show the most minor of nipping.
I put a piece of gutter guard to separate her from the other two before I left for work. I'm going to see if she will eat this evening when I get home.
All three had been at my LFS for about 4 days before I got them. They were treated with copper there the whole time. They ate at the LFS and immediately upon putting them in QT. They ate every day since.
I'm pretty confident my tank has ich in it already although I've never had an outbreak. About a year or so ago I saw a white spot or two on one of my clowns. It went away after a week and I've never seen any white spots on any other fish. I just operate on the assumption that ich exists in there but everyone is healthy with strong immune systems to keep it in check. From all I've read it seems if ich is in your system, it stays forever unless you remove all fish and leave fallow.
I do not use the TTM for my QT. I just observe behavior and eating habits for 4 weeks. If they look sick, I treat. If they appear healthy, eating and behavior, then I put in DT.
My question to you all is: How great a risk would it be to put all three in the display after only two weeks of quarantine?
I know its a risk and the safe bet is to keep them in the QT for 4 weeks minimum for observation. I'm just curious if people have experience with lyretails and introducing disease to their DT?
I put a piece of gutter guard to separate her from the other two before I left for work. I'm going to see if she will eat this evening when I get home.
All three had been at my LFS for about 4 days before I got them. They were treated with copper there the whole time. They ate at the LFS and immediately upon putting them in QT. They ate every day since.
I'm pretty confident my tank has ich in it already although I've never had an outbreak. About a year or so ago I saw a white spot or two on one of my clowns. It went away after a week and I've never seen any white spots on any other fish. I just operate on the assumption that ich exists in there but everyone is healthy with strong immune systems to keep it in check. From all I've read it seems if ich is in your system, it stays forever unless you remove all fish and leave fallow.
I do not use the TTM for my QT. I just observe behavior and eating habits for 4 weeks. If they look sick, I treat. If they appear healthy, eating and behavior, then I put in DT.
My question to you all is: How great a risk would it be to put all three in the display after only two weeks of quarantine?
I know its a risk and the safe bet is to keep them in the QT for 4 weeks minimum for observation. I'm just curious if people have experience with lyretails and introducing disease to their DT?