Quarantining Feeders question

[dbcb314]

this if for feeder guppies or rosy reds, not gold fish btw


1. how long would they need to be quarantined?

2. is it possible just to put them in a 5 gallon bucket with an air stone? change water every day or every other day and keep them in there for the amount of time?



love feeding feeders... but hate teh chance of destroying a whole tank...

 

[dchaos52]

Well, i suggest quarintining them for at least a week or two, and also i dont suggest a bucket, get a SMALL 3-5G tank at like petsmart (its like 10 bucks) they should be much happier (for the time being at least lol)

 

[Bderick67]

It would take at least a month to make those feeders somewhat healthy to feed to your fish. You need to medicate, and feed good high quality food to the feeders. Make the feeder a healthy fish, this will be much better for the fish which you care about.

 

[midnight]

i q for a few days.
and your bucket would work but it would suck.
check out a few of my diy stuff below

 

[dbcb314]

- whats the difference between a 5 gallon tank and a 5 gallon bucket lol

- a month!!!??

- wow dude... lololololol u love to build WAAAA tooo much

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

a month is good, especially if you want to be as close as possible to knowing the feeders are healthy. with guppies in particular, you have to give time to make sure they don't have something like camallanus, which is prevalent in livebearers.

 

[midnight]

well most tanks have filters
and ya i build alot lol

 

[Volenti]

It would take at least a month to make those feeders somewhat healthy to feed to your fish. You need to medicate, and feed good high quality food to the feeders. Make the feeder a healthy fish, this will be much better for the fish which you care about.

Yea I agree with this, especially with rosies, I bought a bunch of rosy feeders a while back (cheap way to get a big school of active fish) and they were pretty skinny and miserable, after a month of intensive feeding in a big well filtered tank they were twice the length and probably 4-5+ times the mass of what they were when I bought them, a much better food source than what they would have been straight from the LFS (these ones weren't used as feeders)