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06/23/2019, 06:36 PM | #1 |
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skipping a quarantine period for anemones
I want to add a new anemone to my display tank and was wondering if I can skip quarantine by doing several rinses with display tank water.
This is mostly for trying to avoid adding ick or velvet to the display tank.
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06/23/2019, 09:19 PM | #2 |
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I'm interested to hear the answer to this one. I haven't qt'd any of my nems when I've put them in but I'm not sure that's the best practice. I didn't think they could pass ich or velvet.
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06/24/2019, 03:13 AM | #3 |
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Anemones, as long as they do not have substrate sticking to them, are highly unlikely to transfer fish diseases.
But you may want to isolate the anemone for a week or two for its own sake and that of other anemones that might be already in the display as anemones can get sick as well.
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What kind of nem? Some (mags, gigs) are prone to bacterial infections, and should be treated with Cipro prior to entering the DT.
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Thinking about just a rbta.
Nothing special.
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I was thinking more about the transfer of ick or velvet into my display tank.
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That being said, pouring some DT water over him (and into a bucket to be discarded) should be sufficient enough to "wash away" any free swimmers. |
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Today is day 72 of my display tank being fallow, I'm going to start transferring fish back on Friday. Whatever it was, it killed 8 fish quick. I was surprised all the remaining fish went through 40 days of copper at 2.0ppm fairly well. Everybody stayed active and was always hungry. I would like to add a normal rose bubble tip to the rainbows I have now. But I'm not sure I will be doing a quick rinse. I may do the 16 days observation after all. Thanks
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