Preventive Maintenance Meds

[pfcbizz]

I'm wondering if adding meds into the display tank every now and then will it help keep my display tank and it's residents healthy and disease free or not or if if it's a bad Ideal ?

 

[beth]

Meds added to the display tank is always a bad idea. Using meds randomly is doubly always a bad idea.

You best preventative is to establish a quarantine tank and use it on all new fish.

 

[flower]

Beth is right, use a quarantine, I can't stress that enough... If you want a parasite prevention in the tank...a just in case, you missed something kind of thing...get a couple of skunk cleaner shrimp, they like to feed on parasites on the fish.

They will set up a little cleaning station, and the fish will actually go there to be "cleaned up". They will not, and can not replace a quarantine, because new fish are super stressed, and the parasite would multiply in such numbers it can kill off an entire tank of fish....it would just be too much for a couple of cleaner shrimp to handle. They only pick off what they want to eat, and once they are fed, they stop...a tank full of sick parasite loaded fish would be doomed.

 

[geridoc]

Adding meds to your display on a regular basis will only produce two results: 1 - you will select for resistant organisms, so no meds will work, and 2- depending on the type of meds you use, you may disrupt the beneficial bacteria that are keeping your tank healthy. Using meds prophylactically in a QT is fine, and not a bad idea, but not in your DT.

 

[pfcbizz]

Thank you for the replies I just wanted to see if it was a good ideal or not

 

[flower]

Thank you for the replies I just wanted to see if it was a good ideal or not

It's always best to ask... no harm in that. What a great thing it would be if everyone decided to ask before they do something, me included... it would save us so many troubles.