What are you using in your QT

[oldsaint]

Just curious what everyone is using in their QT.
Chemicals...or hypo....treatments.
If chemicals which ones and why?

 

[wrightme43]

Just plain old straight, IO with rodi water at 1.023 salinity. If a fish gets sick I give it either freshwater or formalin dip, depending on what I think it is. If that doesnt work I use plain old copper for saltwater tanks. HTH Steve

 

[dasaphrota]

being new to the hobby and having read that most fish loving parasites and ailment causing "germs" are not as tolerant of low salinity as the fish itself I've decided to go with that method. One book I read said to go as low as 1.010 to 1.012 but I'm not that brave and decided 1.016-1.018 would be fine. Hope I'm on the right track

 

[gobie]

you have it right on usually anything below 1.020 and they cannot take sg drop . it use to be standard to give a fresh water bath with the water just buffered

 

[oldsaint]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I've been using Cupramine in mine. I'm still a little scared of the hypo-salinity treatment. Although it's probably better than bombarding the fish with chemicals.

 

[gobie]

the key is to get the ph right or you kill fish

 

[NaH2O]

Here is a good thread: Hyposalinity for transport and quarantine

A couple of articles:
Quarantine Methodology - part one

Quarantine Metholodogy - part two

 

[gobie]

see now thats whats great bout the staff here now you have links to what you need

 

[oldsaint]

Great links

THANK YOU