Quarantine?

[bcarrillos]

I recently bought 2 clown fish from a LFS. 2 Weeks after I bought the 2 fishes, I saw that one of them had white stuff all over, and died a couple hours later. 2 days after, my other clownfish died, it also had that white stuff. After that 2 of my Blue-Green Chromis died. So, now I just have 1 lonely blue-green chromis in the tank.

 

I wish that I was able to have a QT setup, but my tank is in my office, and I don't have much space. Is there anything else I can do to dip the fish in after i buy them from my LFS? I was thinking about something quick, maybe leaving my fish four anh our in some sort of medicine before putting it inside the tank? I don't want to go through the same thing again.

 

Any recommendations, or suggestions?

 

Thanks.

[Sunstar]

Any recommendations, or suggestions?

 

Thanks.

I might suggest set a QT up at home where you can check in on them - then once they are passed, take them to work.

[Tamberav]

I recently bought 2 clown fish from a LFS. 2 Weeks after I bought the 2 fishes, I saw that one of them had white stuff all over, and died a couple hours later. 2 days after, my other clownfish died, it also had that white stuff. After that 2 of my Blue-Green Chromis died. So, now I just have 1 lonely blue-green chromis in the tank.

 

I wish that I was able to have a QT setup, but my tank is in my office, and I don't have much space. Is there anything else I can do to dip the fish in after i buy them from my LFS? I was thinking about something quick, maybe leaving my fish four anh our in some sort of medicine before putting it inside the tank? I don't want to go through the same thing again.

 

Any recommendations, or suggestions?

 

Thanks.

 

The disease is now in your tank unfortunately. Any new fish you add (even healthy) may die from the same disease.

 

The tank needs to be run min 8 weeks without fish if you don't want to risk more death.

 

There is no medicine that will be effective in such a short period of time, further, each type of disease needs to be treated with a different med.

 

I would QT the fish at home.

 

Another option is to only buy fish from certain sources for a better chance of receiving healthy fish. Buying clowns straight from a breeder, buying fish from diver's den or having a LFS order fish from sustainable aquatics availability list (they condition there fish). This is however not an inexpensive option, ofc dead fish is also costly.

 

I would not add anything until an 8 week follow time though.

[bcarrillos]

 

The disease is now in your tank unfortunately. Any new fish you add (even healthy) may die from the same disease. The tank needs to be run min 8 weeks without fish if you don't want to risk more death. I would not add anything until an 8 week follow time though.

 

Thanks for your reply. What if one fish still survived? Should I take the fish out? Or just leave it in there?

[Sunstar]

 

Thanks for your reply. What if one fish still survived? Should I take the fish out? Or just leave it in there?

I'd possibly consider removing it to take to a home QT. It would be harder/stressful to remove it if it becomes ill.

 

Keep in mind if you fallow your tank and you have a QT running, you can get fish and keep them in QT while the tank fallows. I just would pick the fish I want and keep them together. I would also not add any new rfish to the QT part way though on the chance that they are diseased.