finalphaze987
Supporting Member
First fish to make it through QT!
The blue tang originally came with a convict from biota..both came in tiny and pretty skinny. Both came in around a month ago.
When starting QT I thought, if I'm going to go through all this trouble with dips and a full on copper protocol, I might as well get more fish.
3 days later I'm coming home with a purple firefish and a baby scopas. Day 1 started from there
Largest of the bunch was the blue, a little bigger than a quarter..the convict and scopas were tiny and pretty scraggly looking...needed some fattening up before hitting the DT.
I kept things pretty simple.
Day 1: formalin dip -> methylene blue dip -> QT tank no copper
Day 2: observation and ensure eating. FW dip to check for flukes.
Day 3: started copper at 1ppm and slowly ramped up
Day 7: first day in therapeutic range 2.3ppm
Day 9: added API GC
Day 11: another dose of GC
Day 12: started lacing food with GC
I intended to do a 14 day treatment, but after seeing post on recent ich/velvet outbreaks, decided to try to go for a 30 day course.
By day 21, noticeable decline in appetite was observed.
Day 23: woke up to find the convict didn't make it.
Day 25: the firefish seemed lethargic and did nothing but hide. By this time, I was pretty comfortable with adding them and didn't want to lose another fish..
I wrapped it up with a ruby reef rally dip. Then bucket acclimate.
I feared of I went the full 30 day course there would have been more casualties..as days passed so did their food intake..
Plopped them in and the seem to be doing fine. The firefish in no where to be found, found some crevice to swim in. The blue tang was out and about..he ate the most in QT..the scopas seem to like to tag along wherever the blue went.
I think next time I'll run the 14 day protocol. Next batch I'm looking to do are Anthias and a pair of clowns, just not sure which ones tho.
The blue tang originally came with a convict from biota..both came in tiny and pretty skinny. Both came in around a month ago.
When starting QT I thought, if I'm going to go through all this trouble with dips and a full on copper protocol, I might as well get more fish.
3 days later I'm coming home with a purple firefish and a baby scopas. Day 1 started from there
Largest of the bunch was the blue, a little bigger than a quarter..the convict and scopas were tiny and pretty scraggly looking...needed some fattening up before hitting the DT.
I kept things pretty simple.
Day 1: formalin dip -> methylene blue dip -> QT tank no copper
Day 2: observation and ensure eating. FW dip to check for flukes.
Day 3: started copper at 1ppm and slowly ramped up
Day 7: first day in therapeutic range 2.3ppm
Day 9: added API GC
Day 11: another dose of GC
Day 12: started lacing food with GC
I intended to do a 14 day treatment, but after seeing post on recent ich/velvet outbreaks, decided to try to go for a 30 day course.
By day 21, noticeable decline in appetite was observed.
Day 23: woke up to find the convict didn't make it.
Day 25: the firefish seemed lethargic and did nothing but hide. By this time, I was pretty comfortable with adding them and didn't want to lose another fish..
I wrapped it up with a ruby reef rally dip. Then bucket acclimate.
I feared of I went the full 30 day course there would have been more casualties..as days passed so did their food intake..
Plopped them in and the seem to be doing fine. The firefish in no where to be found, found some crevice to swim in. The blue tang was out and about..he ate the most in QT..the scopas seem to like to tag along wherever the blue went.
I think next time I'll run the 14 day protocol. Next batch I'm looking to do are Anthias and a pair of clowns, just not sure which ones tho.
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