Quarantine Question

[b125killer]

How long do you quarantine you new fish? Me I like to watch the fish for a week if it's eating and doing it's normal thing i put it in the big tank. But the last things i had in q.t. really needed to be in with other fish. I think that not being able to school with it's own is just as harmful. The Tiger loach is a good example of it. I had him in q.t. and i could tell he wasn't happy being by himself. He was eating and looked healthy just hid all the time. After he was in with his own kind he was a completely different fish.
Now i have the new corydoras in q.t. with the royal pleco and two longfin plecos.  There all doing good and really want to put the cories in with the discus. I also want to wait because if the discus get sick i can't afford to replace them at the size they are. Also the cories keep each other company so I'm not to worried about that.

[Mugwump]

After a few days of observance, toss in a guppy, or culls to test them that way too........or you can just QT with culls, etc too, at the onset.....they tell a story themselves, as does observance....the time to be really cautious is with prized stock......do you have a less valued stocked tank that you could group them in before introducing to the 'trophy fish'...??....like a 'half way house' to prove themselves?? after the initial QT??.....patience......it saves loses....

[b125killer]

I was thinking of putting them in the planted tank. But bottom dwelling fish seem to hide real good in that tank. Plus there almost impossible to get out. I do have a few cull fish that i could put in with them. I might go that route. But if a fish is sick would it show signs in a week or so? Or should i wait a month?

[PaulineMi]

I always quarantine for a month.

[Mugwump]

I was thinking of putting them in the planted tank. But bottom dwelling fish seem to hide real good in that tank. Plus there almost impossible to get out. I do have a few cull fish that i could put in with them. I might go that route. But if a fish is sick would it show signs in a week or so? Or should i wait a month?

Some do just that....tho a couple weeks should reveal anything....toss the culls in.....and watch....

[b125killer]

I'll wait another week and put the cull fish in with them, Then wait two more weeks. I really don't want to risk my discus. It's not worth losing them over a few cories and me being impatient.

[Mugwump]

I'll wait another week and put the cull fish in with them, Then wait two more weeks. I really don't want to risk my discus. It's not worth losing them over a few cories and me being impatient.

BOOMBA !......good choice 

[PaulineMi]

I agree. 

[b125killer]

So i put i  a cull fish Sunday now the plecos have ick, lost one of the long fins and the cull fish is dead.  Good thing i have been waiting to put the fish in with the discus. I just hope the the royal pleco can recover. He's loaded with ick. I'm thinking the long fin pleco braught it in. I just hope i can cure the royal and the cories. So far the cories aren't showing any outward signs of but that doesn't mean much.

[Mugwump]

..that's too bad.....if the cories are the Sterbias..??...they can handle the higher temps to cure ich...not so sure about the BN's tho....doubt it....good luck.....

[b125killer]

The cories are the Sterbias. I'm more worried about the royal pleco. I can handle the lose of the cories if it happens. The royal isn't my fish to kill. I'll feel so bad, I'm going to need to find a replacement if he doesn't make it.

[Mugwump]

The cories are the Sterbias. I'm more worried about the royal pleco. I can handle the lose of the cories if it happens. The royal isn't my fish to kill. I'll feel so bad, I'm going to need to find a replacement if he doesn't make it.

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[b125killer]

86 is the target temp that I'll get the tank to. I just need to do it slowly. I haven't had to deal with ick for a long time. The original clown loaches had it. I cured them with heat. If i remember i think i got the temps up to 87. The old heater i had wouldn't get the temperature past that. 89 kills ick but i think that will also kill the plecos.