I'll try and keep this short but ask any questions if there is something I should have included.
I ordered some keyhole cichlids through an LFS, he gave me a call when the order came in and I went in to pick them up about an hour later. (They were shipped from interstate and we have been having a heat wave here). They were still in the shipping bag when I turned up, he released them into the tank for me to pick out 6 of them. I picked which ones I wanted and he bagged them up for me.
I got them home and drip acclimatized them for just over 3 hours before adding them to my tank. I didn't test the water from the bag as it seemed like a moot point since they only spent about 15 mins in it, before I started drip acclimatizing them.
A couple of them have cloudy eyes and all of them have torn fins to some extent. I have heard that this can happen sometimes during shipping but have no experience dealing with it first hand.
I currently have them alone in a 55 gallon QT. I have a Aqua Clear 70 HOB and a sponge filter running on the tank. The sponge filter was a spare from my well established pond and half of the media in the HOB was from my cycled Canister filter.
From here what is my best course of action for ensuring a speedy recovery?
Should I do a basic salt treatment on the tank?
I ordered some keyhole cichlids through an LFS, he gave me a call when the order came in and I went in to pick them up about an hour later. (They were shipped from interstate and we have been having a heat wave here). They were still in the shipping bag when I turned up, he released them into the tank for me to pick out 6 of them. I picked which ones I wanted and he bagged them up for me.
I got them home and drip acclimatized them for just over 3 hours before adding them to my tank. I didn't test the water from the bag as it seemed like a moot point since they only spent about 15 mins in it, before I started drip acclimatizing them.
A couple of them have cloudy eyes and all of them have torn fins to some extent. I have heard that this can happen sometimes during shipping but have no experience dealing with it first hand.
I currently have them alone in a 55 gallon QT. I have a Aqua Clear 70 HOB and a sponge filter running on the tank. The sponge filter was a spare from my well established pond and half of the media in the HOB was from my cycled Canister filter.
From here what is my best course of action for ensuring a speedy recovery?
Should I do a basic salt treatment on the tank?