Clown fish quarantine?

120reefermadnes · Jun 4, 2017

Just picked up a really nice pair of bullet hole clowns yesterday and have them safely in my 10g quarantine tank and their doing great! My question is about the prophalactict treatment of these fish. Do i use my normal treatment plan of 6 days prazi 50% WC 6 more days of prazi, 50% WC run carbon then start coppermine. Is this a safe plan to use with my new clowns or is there a better treatment plan out there for clowns?

Areseebee · Jun 4, 2017

Looks about right. One thing to note about prazi is that the actual medicine will only stay active for about ~24 hours. The 6 day separation between doses is only due to the timing of the worms life cycle.

120reefermadnes · Jun 4, 2017

Cool thanks man!

Katrina71 · Jun 4, 2017

Pic please?

ngoodermuth · Jun 4, 2017

If you REALLY want to be thorough, you could add metroplex in with your copper treatment (to ward off brooklynella), but I'd say that's optional. I personally wait for symptoms to treat brook, but some might choose to address it prophylactically, especially with clowns and if they aren't home enough to watch for symptoms.

melypr1985 · Jun 4, 2017

I always do an acriflavin dip on new clowns before they go into QT. You can then watch for signs of brook that might have made it through the dip and treat with metro. @ngoodermuth is correct as well though, if you saw signs later you would still need to remove the clown for the dip, sterilize the qt and then treat with metro.

120reefermadnes · Jun 6, 2017

ngoodermuth said:
If you REALLY want to be thorough, you could add metroplex in with your copper treatment (to ward off brooklynella), but I'd say that's optional. I personally wait for symptoms to treat brook, but some might choose to address it prophylactically, especially with clowns and if they aren't home enough to watch for symptoms.

Add metroplex at the same time as copper?

ngoodermuth · Jun 6, 2017

120reefermadnes said:
Add metroplex at the same time as copper?

Yes, they can be done at the same time. Since it's prophylactic, you can wait until the copper is at therapeutic and they've adjusted before adding it in.

You'll want to run it for 10 days, dosing every 48 hours after a 25% water change. Make sure you add copper to the water BEFORE it hits the tank, so levels don't drop. After 10 days you'll just do a couple more waterchanges to flush out the residuals.