Quarantine rush, but not really.

[russells55]

Hi.

so first off I know I should setup a quarantine tank. Without going into the reasons .

heres what I have been doing…
Do you think this does any good at all??

when I get a new fish. I drip acclimate it. Then use a net to catch it and put it in another bucket of fresh tank water of the tank it’s going into.
I then add methyl blue and let it hang out in a bath of a higher construction of that for 5mins or so.
Then I net and move to a new bucket of tank water. (More like small containers) Then in the tank it goes.

is this stomping anything?

For coral I do a coral dip instead of the meythal blue.

thanks.

 

[Sebastiancrab]

I have lost count of the number of fish that have come down with ich, flukes, velvet etc. in quarantine. Once it happens to you in your DT and you have to go fallow, you will not short cut your quarantine process again.

 

[Tired]

Might knock a tiny bit of one infection or another off the outside of the fish, but that won't cure anything. Otherwise people would do that instead of quarantining.

 

[bradreef]

Quickest qt method that is reasonable is hybrid ttm. 14 days. My opinion.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Sounds like a lot of stress to the fish with all that consecutive catching and dipping. Have you lost any with this method?

why not just set up an observation tank?

 

[fishywishy]

I don’t think that’s going to anything for internal parasites. I do 14 days in metro and prazi pro for that.

 

[davidcalgary29]

OP's method is actually a modified version of one of Humblefish's procedures, although it doesn't seem to use H2O2. I do something like that myself, although it's a more simple bag > bucket with H2O2 or methylene blue (depending on how many days they've spent in transit > quarantine.

 

[bradreef]

Sounds like a lot of stress to the fish with all that consecutive catching and dipping. Have you lost any with this method?

why not just set up an observation tank?

Depends on the fish. Is it less stress than copper for a wrasse? Probably.

 

[bradreef]

And i have done this for 3 fish. All were eating within minutes after each transfer. The shop they were purchased from also kept them in copper.

 

[bushdoc]

Do not take it personally, just as a info for all of us to learn, but you are doing everything absolutely wrong.
First-drip acclimation of fish is not really recommended, especially if they arrive after long shipment.
Methylene blue has got weak antyfungal and antybacterial properties, both of those pathogens are extremely rare in saltwater fish.
It is OK not to use any medication, but keep your fish in Observational tank for few weeks, if you don't want to use any medications, however due to changing supply chain issues, gross percentage of saltwater fish imported to US has got parasites/flukes etc. You can either buy fish prequarantined or buy directly from breeders like ORA if you don't want to quarantine.

 

[russells55]

Thanks for the replays
and yes bushdoc that kind of answers one of my questions it methyl blue does much.

I have had freshwater forever but newish to saltwater. Trying to keep the number of tanks in my house down.

I’ll be skipping the blue and have to talk my wife into sone kind of quarantine tank setup

cheers

 

[fishywishy]

Thanks for the replays
and yes bushdoc that kind of answers one of my questions it methyl blue does much.

I have had freshwater forever but newish to saltwater. Trying to keep the number of tanks in my house down.

I’ll be skipping the blue and have to talk my wife into sone kind of quarantine tank setup

cheers

You could also buy fish from dr reefs so you don’t have to quarantine