Quarantine

Should you quarantine dragonets, blennys, or gobies? Fish that are bottom dwellers. I heard they have a better slime coat so less prone to diseases?

 

quarantine everything regardless....it's not only the fact that they will be more or less prone to diseases. it's you to not introduce any diseases to your tank and inhabitants that are already established.

 

But don't some bottom dwellers need sand to survive because I heard you don't want to have substrate in your hospital tank. Could you just fill a container with sand and put him inside it in the the qt?

 

+1 to quarantining everything. For four years I did not quarantine my fish and paid the price. The way I see it, it's the only insurance policy I have protecting the money I have invested in my display tank. You can use silicate sand in a QT tank, but I can't speak to specific brands, hopefully someone else can address this.

 

yea just throw some sand in a tupawear container and let it sink to the bottom and remove the lid under water so it doesn't cloud up for your bottom dwellers. maybe a few pieces of PVC fittings as little caves and what not.

 

I was under the impression that the reason you don't add sand to a qt is to interrupt the life cycle of marine ich? I think the spores require sand to incubate. May be wrong on this?

 

yes and no. sometimes you need it for certain critters to make their lives easier. but you keep it in a container to be able to throw it out after the quarantine easier if you used medications that will absorb into the sand. and to keep the overall tank cleaner and easier to maintain. if you keep a fish in there for a month of QT as recommended, the life cycle of ich will pass either way in my opinion. Hopefully some of the more knowledgable people on here chime in as well. Here's a bump for your thread.

 

So when I treat copper in the qt for ich do I take out the Tupperware holding sand or leave it in?

 

Leave it in.Just don't ever put it in your dt.

 

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