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Thanks Beth! Ok so then observation is a pretty reliable method, and if I don’t see anything over 4-6 weeks then I can rest assured it’s very likely I’m safe to add to the DT. With hypo is that dangerous for fish in any way? If the salinity is dropped over 48hrs the fish won’t mind it one bit...

Thanks guys :) And what do you think about pre-medicating vs only observing? Imforbis would you feel comfortable only observing for 6 weeks and then adding a fish to your DT?

Hey guys Currently quarantining a lawnmower blenny and a chromis for 6 weeks without medication. I observe both sides of each fish once a day for disease. I have 2 questions, 1) where does the number 6 weeks come from? Is it to do with some life cycle? Or experience? 2) say my blenny and...

Thank you for the advice He’s started eating the seaweed with gusto now! Appreciate your help :) I might as well start training him to eat other prepared foods too since he’s in quarantine

I’m not having a whole lot of luck. However I have seen him/her having the occasional nibble at random pieces of marine mix/pellets/disintegrating seaweed that lie on the ground. He doesn’t seem too hungry or stressed just...lazy I think? The nori appears to be mostly untouched. Would you...

Thank you :) would you recommend soaking in garlic guard?

Hey guys! I’ve finally finished nearly 16 weeks of fallow (ich) and I’ve just added my first two new fish into my 40 gallon QT (fully cycled with a shrimp before hand, ammonia is 0, 30hrs post fish addition). So it’s been over a day and I added one chromis and one lawnmower Blenny. They have a...

Thank you I’ll do that If I DONT end up medicating (as is usually the case disease is rare here due to our customs quarantine), and I go 6 weeks without issues is it fine to use that same water again to quarantine a next batch of fish? Because that means there was no diseases in it? Or is that...

Thanks team! :) well time to start cycling the tank today, here’s to hoping this goes well.

Any thoughts on length of a good quarantine without medication?

Oh yeah I do have an attachment to the canister filter which changes that outlet to a spray bar which causes heaps of bubbling. I used that when I treated my previous 8 fish. I’ll also add in a power head thank you very much :) definitely don’t want my fish suffocating.

Hey guys just needed some help with the quarantine process. So I lost all my fish to velvet and ich (poor quarantine procedure on my part) a few months ago. In 3 weeks time I will have completed 13 weeks of fallow. Definitely no contamination as there have not been any fish in my house. Just...

Ok thank you That's easy to fix then since I have no fish just some regular maintenance should do the trick

Hey guys! 100 gallon softie tank. Only a shrimp and hermit crab, my fish all died from velvet or Ich or brook and the tank is currently in fallow. I'm just taking my time to work on tank maintenance. I have this brown stuff on my sand. It was there when I had my fish. And now it's still there...

Thank you I will do :) I do quarantine but the mistake was I didn't medicate the tang and so it's Ich was suppressed until it was added to the tank. So for corals would I have to do a 72day quarantine day?? In case there was an Ich cyst on it?

Thank you very much for your advice I am sure it will be useful for me in future. The last firefish died sadly. So that's all my fish gone for now. I will behin a 12, probably longer fallow since I have no fish to put back in. Cheers guys :) I might ask some questions later about sandbeds and...

Hmm so the 12 week observation period wouldn't suffice? I will need to treat them for brook eh? Maybe I'll give them back to the fish store

HEY guys So I just found my firefish it's still alive! Weird it doesn't even seem affected. I'm really confused however as I didn't identify the disease when they died (the other fish are buried now). I'm not sure what to do? Obviously I can treat with copper for the ick and velvet. But if it...

Thanks guys :)

Ah yeah since I'm not getting fish till Dec/Jan I'll probably re-cycle the hospital/QT tank a little closer to that time.