Our mandarin in QT

[jeffisme]

In a few days, it will be four weeks that we moved our fish from the DT to a QT following a velvet outbreak.

Generally, the fish in the QT are doing fine but, no surprise, despite trying an assortment of foods, the mandarin is getting thinner and thinner. It does eat worms when it seems to be really hungry and the occasional brine shrimp or arcticpod, but because i'm treating with cupramine nothing that will sustain it.

we don't want to lose it, so one question is once we hit four weeks, even though it's not idea does it make sense to put it back in the DT where it can get plenty of copepods, or will that give any remaining velvet spores a chance to reinvigorate themselves (we'd leave the other fish in the QT for another two three weeks).

I've also thought of setting up another tank with live sand and cured live rock, seed it with copepods and putting the mandarin in there by itself. if that's an option, should we also wait the full four weeks or could we do that now?

in the meantime, I'll try to find some roe to feed it.

thanks for any advice,

jeff

 

[snorvich]

In a few days, it will be four weeks that we moved our fish from the DT to a QT following a velvet outbreak.

Generally, the fish in the QT are doing fine but, no surprise, despite trying an assortment of foods, the mandarin is getting thinner and thinner. It does eat worms when it seems to be really hungry and the occasional brine shrimp or arcticpod, but because i'm treating with cupramine nothing that will sustain it.

we don't want to lose it, so one question is once we hit four weeks, even though it's not idea does it make sense to put it back in the DT where it can get plenty of copepods, or will that give any remaining velvet spores a chance to reinvigorate themselves (we'd leave the other fish in the QT for another two three weeks).

I've also thought of setting up another tank with live sand and cured live rock, seed it with copepods and putting the mandarin in there by itself. if that's an option, should we also wait the full four weeks or could we do that now?

in the meantime, I'll try to find some roe to feed it.

thanks for any advice,

jeff

Nutramar Ova multiple times per day

 

[jeffisme]

a big thank you for the nutramar suggestion. the dragonet loves the stuff.

 

[hollister]

Im sure the manderans will still eat pods and pods are a very wanted part of the CUC. It is best to wait awile for the tank to fully mature with a well established refugium for the best results. GL..