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| O man sounds rough. I would do more research next time and see what fishes cant take copper. I do know in my QT I suck out all that crap your talking about by doing daily water changes. Always getting water from the main tank. No when you say 8g of fresh water do you mean from the main tank "fresh" being good water from the main tank. If not that low of salinity would be a shock. So many things could of been the determining factor. The rapid change in water parameters could of sent them into shock. There is so many things...
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| If your perfectly healthy to you take aspirin? I never use anything unless I have reason to believe something is wrong. I think I read somewhere that tangs dont take copper well because it hurts there internal systems. I do know one thing though if you cant keep your QT tank water stable it wont be leaving it alive. Rabbit fish are very hardy. It doesnt matter how cruddy it looks. He is a fighter. It may have had everything to do with water parameters.
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| Makes since...they both looked extremly healthy....so I should have just watched them for the 3 weeks instead of dosing the water...then if something were to show up I would then dose the water......Yeah the foxface does look like a fighter.....How long should I keep him in the qt? He has been in there 1 week now...4 days of that he has been acting healthy.... |
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| im a a 3 week qt guy. But thats because I qt under hyposalinity. I dont recomend doing that unless you have a refractometer.
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| I like to keep my fish in my q-tank for 6 weeks. I prefer to use hypo treatment on all new tangs regardless of how they look since they almost always seem to get ich anyway and I don't want it to get into my main tank. For all other fish, I don't add anything to the water and use a standard SG=1.025 and watch the fish closely. I never dose copper unless that is the only proven treatment method since copper is so harsh.
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| Some folks use hypo salinity to ensure they kill off any hitch hikers the fish may have came with. It's not a sure thing but it may decrease your chance of transporting something into your display. Some folks use 4+ weeks of QT, the thought is to give any parasites a full life cycle so you should know by then if something hitched a ride. Remember, if you are using a bare bones QT you may not have a biological fiter in place and little to no clean up crew so keeping ammonia and nitrates down could be fun. 10% water changes every 3 days or so usually works well. |
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| Like I said do your research. Some fish cant take hypo. But most do and there are fine with it. You are not going to stress your fish out when doing hypo. You will stress fish out when using copper.
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| Thats what I do to mine. 75/25. I then do 10 percent daily changes after day 3.
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