Fishy first aid kit

Railcar79 · Sep 30, 2013

I am gone from home and my tank for long periods, leaving my wife who's fish knowlegde on a scale of 1-10 is about 2. With all the addatives and medications out there, it gets a bit confusing, so I will ask it here

What are the must have bottles for first aid in the tank.
I have some Prazi
Coppersafe
Prime
Kent ammo detox

rworegon · Sep 30, 2013

How about a copy of The Conscientious Marine Aquarist. That and a login and password for this message board. This way she can at least find answers if she needs them.

Tylermacdonald15 · Sep 30, 2013

More info is needed. Is this for a reef tank? If so, I wouldn't have any of those. If the fish care taker dumped one of them in the tank it could wipe out he entire system! Even if it's for a quarantine, I wouldn't leave that up for an inexperienced person to do. I alway automate as much as I can on my tanks. Dosing pumps, automated fish feeders, tank controllers...

Railcar79 · Sep 30, 2013

I have a few zoa and plays, bi color candy cane, frogspawn and hammer coral, and 6 fish in hospital tank. Display is currently a 55 with a 29 gal sump, upgrading in 2 weeks to a 72 bow

I put some kalk in the ATO tank, other than that I don't dose anything. Trying to get an emergency kit together in case of crash, or disease popping up, like my male OC clown getting popeye in the HT

Railcar79 · Sep 30, 2013

I am gone anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months depending on the job and location, I rely on her to add the stuff, but with our lack of resources in South Dakota it would help to know what to keep on hand

cdness · Sep 30, 2013

To be 100% honest there is NOTHING marked as "Reef Safe" that I would place in my own reef for treatment of any infection, disease, or parasite...

With that said my reef med kit consists of Melafix Marine and Epsom Salts... It has cured everything I have had to treat so far but it is all in a QT tank. I have never had to deal with anything worse than Melafix could treat...

For corals however I have flatworm exit, Seachem Coral Cure and TLF Revive Coral Cleaner I use as dips for incoming corals. All 3 are used one at a time flatworm exit, then seachem coral cure, then the Revive for all incoming corals, 5 minutes each. I also have Peroxide and Lugols for zoas...

Just remember, the best medication to place in a display tank reef is a water change. Nothing more than that should ever go in there is all is done right from the start.