H2O2 Bath for New Fish

[HTXReefer]

I have read a few posts from @Humblefish regarding H2O2 for treatment of parasites and hope he will chime in here. I am looking into buying a yellow tang for my 72 bowfront mixed reef tank. After a velvet outbreak with a blue tang a few months back I swore my tank would always be tang free. I did put the tank through a 70 day fallow period during this time and replaced the sand because I was looking for a fish I couldn’t find after I removed all of the rocks.

However these posts have me wanting to try again.

I have a 20 gallon QT up and running now in anticipation of this fish. I want to make sure I have the procedure fully understood.

Day1
30 minutes bath of saltwater + 150ppm of h2o2
Followed by placement into unmedicated QT

Day 1-30
If no signs of parasites or infection the fish can go to DT

If signs of parasites or infection repeat 30 minute h2o2 bath and start hybrid TTM described by @Humblefish.

If successful through the hybrid TTM process then fish will got to DT

As I understand it the hybrid TTM method would also be used if any fish in the DT exhibit any parasite at anytime.

Does this sound right or am I over simplifying the process?

 

[Old Fritz]

Baths do not eradicate the parasite majority of the time and I don't think there is enough evidence to suggest that hydrogen peroxide will completely eradicate it on its own. Chloroquine phosphate or copper are the recommended ways to treat the fish. If you just do the baths the parasite will still be on the fish and when put back into the qt it will continue on through its life cycle.

Also there are many times when a parasite won't show many if any symptoms. My first saltwater tank was that way where fish would just up and die after 2 weeks of owning them but there were no visible symptoms until one day I messed up a water change and raised the salinity too much. This was enough for the velvet in the tank to turn into an outbreak and completely covered my fish.

There isn't much information yet on whether or not you can completely eradicate velvet with just H2O2 and ttm. Until there is a lot of evidence backing it up I would stick with the tried and true method