Quarantine Question

[Jack22]

Long story short. Setup a 120 gallon tank, didn’t quarantine my fish, got ich, 11 weeks with no fish. Now I’m quarantining my new fish.

I have a small blue tang, coral beauty angle, and two small snowflake clowns in quarantine. After 22 day in QT none of the fish show any signs of issues and no spots.

The question is should I treat the quarantine tank with a copper medication anyway just to be safe or not?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Dr. Reef Verified Sponsor]

did you use any medication in QT to rid ich? if answer is no then yes you need to treat. simply placing fish in qt will not rid ich.

 

[nereefpat]

Were the tang, clowns, and angel in the display with ich? If so, then yes I agree that you definitely need to treat for ich. It doesn't have to be copper, as you can use hyposalinity, cloroquine (sp?), copper, TTM.

I like to prophylactically treat for ich using tank transfer method.

 

[Jack22]

Sorry I left out that part. Blue tang was the only survivor, treated him with copper for 2 weeks. I added the others to quarantine 22 days ago. Everyone looks good so far.