Quarantine First Fish?

[Wett Hands]

What about QT'ing a mandarin? I would like to get one sometime next year. And since most of them need pods from live rock to live, how does one keep 'em alive for 4-6 weeks without his sole source of food?

 

[Aquarist007]

zooplankton can be purchased--I use a frozen stick of it--just break a small piece off every other day. the ideal situation is to set up a refugium--grow your own and introduce them into the quarantine tank

 

[kevin2000]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10225790#post10225790 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Wett Hands
What about QT'ing a mandarin? I would like to get one sometime next year. And since most of them need pods from live rock to live, how does one keep 'em alive for 4-6 weeks without his sole source of food?

Some people will purchase pods or add live rock. I suspect live brine shrimp is an easier alternative and one that may give you a basis for training them to accept frozen food. If you go that route just make sure you don't qt the mandarin with other fish .. they are kinda dorky hunters and other fish are likely to scarf up the LBS.

 

[Sk8r]

reefnutrition.com

 

[Sparty00]

If you use Hypo to treat Ich and your fish has visible spots, how long does it take for the spots to go away?

How long does it actually take for the parasites to die in Hypo environment?

 

[Freed]

It will actually only take a few days to a week or so for the spots to fall off and then start another part of their life cycle. After you see the last spot of ich then you would want to continue hypo for at least another 4 weeks if not a bit longer.

 

[kevin2000]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10226920#post10226920 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sparty00
If you use Hypo to treat Ich and your fish has visible spots, how long does it take for the spots to go away?How long does it actually take for the parasites to die in Hypo environment?

Hypo kills by a combo of preventing/retarding the tomont stage of ich from hatching and using osmotic pressure to kill some of the other stages of ich.

Like copper ... hypo is not effective at killing ich on the fish (trophont stage) .. that ich will naturally fall off the fish within a week .. little as a couple of days with most off within 4-5 days.

Some people will say that hypo can be effective in 3 weeks or less ... but many would argue that prudence would dictate using it for at least 4 weeks.

How long you QT is a matter of debate ... many would argue that 3-6 weeks is what you should do. I personally QT fish for 4 weeks in hypo and extend that length if I find a problem. If you have ich in your ST then your stuck keeping the ST without fish for about 5 weeks ... prudence would argue "better safe than sorry" but everyone has a difference risk tolerance.

Hope this helps.

 

[Aquarist007]

excellent information on ich:

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-08/sp/index.php

 

[Snausy]

My question would be about the nitrifying bacteria in the biomedia...if you have it in your sump at 1.023....wouldn't it die off if you dropped that to 1.009?

Yes the fish does well at that level but what about the benificial bacteria in the filter media that you are trying to use? How does it react to the drop in salinity?

 

[kevin2000]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10232588#post10232588 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Snausy
My question would be about the nitrifying bacteria in the biomedia...if you have it in your sump at 1.023....wouldn't it die off if you dropped that to 1.009?

Yes the fish does well at that level but what about the beneficial bacteria in the filter media that you are trying to use? How does it react to the drop in salinity?

Yes a sudden drop to 1.009 may have a slight impact on bio media .. I have found that dropping the salinity over a couple of days eliminates that problem. However, many drop the salinity over short period of time and don't experience problems.