Melanarus wrasse qt

[Hdgutierrez]

Hi everybody! I have a melanarus wrasse i got from a coworker. He has had it for a few years and since he is taking his tank down, I now have it. I have been reading up on wrasse qt but and have been having a hard time deciding whether or not to medicate the tank. The wrasse has been in the qt for 3 weeks now with no symptoms of disease. If anybody has advice for what they would do in this situation I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

 

[moz71]

was any known problems in tank coming from? If not, I would just observe it for a bit. But you will get different opinions.

 

[Hdgutierrez]

was any known problems in tank coming from? If not, I would just observe it for a bit. But you will get different opinions.

Thanks for the reply, My coworker didnt have any disease problems and he did a qt with copper.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Thanks for the reply, My coworker didnt have any disease problems and he did a qt with copper.

As long as the wrasse hasn't been exposed to non-quarantined fish recently, the risk is pretty low that it will be carrying any communicable diseases. Fish often develop disease outbreaks when they are moved, so holding it for a month before moving it into your DT would help.

That said, I quarantine every new fish - even those from other public aquariums.....

Jay

 

[Crabby48]

I’ll add if you decide on copper to use copper power with wrasse. Mel is hardy and do well in copper

 

[moz71]

My opinion, he should be fine. If you have been observing for 3 weeks and didn’t show anything yet I would say good to go! there are a bunch of people that would medicate anything before going into their tanks and a bunch that do a quasi QT like you done and some don’t treat or quarantine at all. I’m one that does QT and depending on where they came from I would either just observe before putting in or do a full treatment. Also some fish don’t do well medicated. Anyhow, I did not medicate my malenarus wrasse and he was fine but that is besides the point. Lol

 

[Hdgutierrez]

Thankyou for all the replies/advice. I will throw him in tomorrow.