Quarentine and other preventative measures

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kamikaziechameleon

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Ok so i did a brief search prior to starting this thread and found nothing. Should there already be such a thread cooking somewhere please redirect me. Otherwise I hope this one gets a rather important but obscure discussion cooking

Question:

How best to garentee a proper quarentine, and can one suppliment or improve this process with any kind of chemicals or specific water treatements.

Reason:

I am in the final stages of setting up 10 tanks on one super sump running on a pond pump moving over 3,000 GPH. I can't afford the dual UV filters for the dual Returns the pump has. Any form of disease entering this system could be extremely devestating. And ultimately impossible to treat or irradicate.

I have 3-4 independent aquariums, 110 Gallon, 55 gallon, 40 gallon, and 20 gallon. I was hoping to use these for quarentine.

I know temps between 86-90 degrees will kill Ich out right, I'm more concerned with internal parasites or other forms of less apperent infectious diseases and bacteria. I'm going to be mainly quarentining african Cichlids. But I hope we also discuss how to quarentine/treat fish from a range of water requirements. IE scaleless, Discuss, etc...

Will using coppersafe in the quarentine tanks do anything besides stress the fish?

I guess it would be best if we could sort of outline a delousing process for incomers.

Are there any foods that could help in this process?

Some of the fish may be wild caught. Do they pose a different set of challenges?

Thanks guys

Hope this discussion grows seeing as it is important for protecting our respective mosnter tanks.
 
I quarentine my fish for several weeks but my phlilosophy is a bit different. Worrying about all the internal stuff that you can't see would drive me crazy and keep me awake at night. I try to control the things I can. I basically watch the fish for several weeks to see how they look. If no ICH of other obvious external abnormalities show up, I move them to the main tank. I don't treat unless treatment is warrented for fear of my treatment killing the fish. So far I have been pretty sucessfull with this or just plain lucky.

To me, the whole "all fish must be treated for internal parasites" thing is way over blown. That's my philosophy, right or wrong.
 
Same here.If the fish in quarantine look good after 6 weeks minimum they go into the tank I got them for.
 
I've done the same as you but now that I've got this super system that can't bet treated feasibly I worry my tanks will look like pet Co. in no time flat should I not treat ya know. There won't really be any way to back track once a disease gets in. Pulling someone out into a treatment tank is to late in the game, if I've seen it its in the system ya know.

I know the loach forums talk about deworming and stuff I was wondering if there was any such systematic preventative treatement for incoming fish I could use.

IE. Copper safe and feed Garlic for a month. or something like that
(don't know if that would work or hurt.)
 
I understand what you're saying. I'm going to be re-stocking my 500 soon and I don't know what I will do if there's an outbreak in that tank. Just catching the fish in the 500 is a major chore.

I have head that Ther-A from NLS helps with internal nasties. Not sure if that's true or not.

As far as de-worming and Loaches are concerned, I have never done that. If the loach looks plump and healthy to me I think all is good there.
 
I was wondering if the de worming process could be applied to other non loache fishies. I imagine it propbably purges alot of those types of parasites.

Seeing as Deworming is a generally good practice even for healthy animals (like iwth dogs and cats) I'd imagine it wouldn't be a bad idea.
 
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