Quarantine parameters and dosing Prime
Hi all,
I picked up my new juvenile Blue Tang yesterday. I have put him in my little 40l quarantine tank. All my parameters are fine except nitrate. It is about 20 ppm. I thought this is probably fine for fish but I decided to throw in half a cap full of Prime just to be safe.
My questions are, should I continue to dose a small amount of prime daily while the fish is in there with that amount of nitrate? Also how long do people quarantine their new fish for.
It was already at lfs for a week and a half being medicated and fresh water dips recovering from an eye parasite. It was also in a tank with a cleaner wrasse going hard at him. Good LFS. They refused to let me have it until it was in tip top full recovered condition. I am really liking these guys the more I go there. No BS. If they don't know answer they go and get the right staff member who knows exactly, rather than making up some BS that they think sounds believable.
Cheers guys!:rolleyes
I picked up my new juvenile Blue Tang yesterday. I have put him in my little 40l quarantine tank. All my parameters are fine except nitrate. It is about 20 ppm. I thought this is probably fine for fish but I decided to throw in half a cap full of Prime just to be safe.
My questions are, should I continue to dose a small amount of prime daily while the fish is in there with that amount of nitrate? Also how long do people quarantine their new fish for.
It was already at lfs for a week and a half being medicated and fresh water dips recovering from an eye parasite. It was also in a tank with a cleaner wrasse going hard at him. Good LFS. They refused to let me have it until it was in tip top full recovered condition. I am really liking these guys the more I go there. No BS. If they don't know answer they go and get the right staff member who knows exactly, rather than making up some BS that they think sounds believable.
Cheers guys!:rolleyes