Medicated tank to Display?

Gary LeCompte · Jan 16, 2019

What is the best or safest way to transfer fish from a medicated tank with copper to your display tank?

EmdeReef · Jan 16, 2019

Gary LeCompte said:
What is the best or safest way to transfer fish from a medicated tank with copper to your display tank?

You can use a fishnet. The small quantity of Cu transferred won’t be an issue.

Salty Lemon · Jan 16, 2019

I'm glad you posted this question. I just recently started quarantining my fish so I'm new to this as well. This was a good question for many of us. I did some research on previous threads and this is what I found. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/acclimitisation.441613/#post-5032164 . I hope some veterans post their thoughts on this as well.

mort · Jan 17, 2019

I agree that the amount of transfer would be negligible and you shouldn't worry. I do qt a little differently in that I strip the meds out with carbon after a full course and then observe in the qt for a week or two (massive over kill I know) just to let the fish recover a little before introducing to the display and equally it gives you a chance to see that the treatment was effective.

Frtdrmrose7 · Jan 17, 2019

mort said:
I agree that the amount of transfer would be negligible and you shouldn't worry. I do qt a little differently in that I strip the meds out with carbon after a full course and then observe in the qt for a week or two (massive over kill I know) just to let the fish recover a little before introducing to the display and equally it gives you a chance to see that the treatment was effective.

I do the same and that also affords me a two week medication free observation period before going into DT(just to make sure).

Gary LeCompte · Jan 17, 2019

Frtdrmrose7 said:
I do the same and that also affords me a two week medication free observation period before going into DT(just to make sure).

Thanks I appreciate the info and the time.
I just want to be as safe as possible.

maroun.c · Jan 22, 2019

I move the fish to a bucket with tank water making sure to let net drip for few seconds before placing in bucket. Then I net the fish out to DT letting water drip as well before taking to DT. Maybe just my OCD kicking in.