Well your not alone. Lots of people don't have established QT tanks set up or just a QT setup for that matter.

I have learned in the past that to be sucessful in hobby you must QT everything (Fish, corals, inverts) for a period of time. You never know what your neibour has got (Red bugs, flat worms, flukes, ich, velvet, etc) or even your LFS. So I have a QT tank's setup & running all the time.

I just finished treating someone's fish in one of my QT tank's. If you need help treating, let me know. I have a open established tank going.

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I have just set up a QT tank today and am going to let it run for a little while, and ill keep an eye on the clown and if i see any sign of stress or dots ill QT and treat. what would you suggest for treatment. Hypo salinity or copper? Or is there something else im missing.

I'm a fan of Hypo saline plus Sea Chems cupramine. Get some Seachem marine buffer, you can often times find a tiny jar of it for $4. Set temp and do a fresh water dip then add the fish to the QT tank, lower the salinity over a couple of days and then treat with cupramine. It's much easier on the fish than copper.

Doug

PS good luck, if I need a fish sitter I think I'd pick you.

I have the cuprimine stuff, ive used it before. i never knew it was any different then regular copper though. It worked well on regal tang and box fish.

Hypo saline (Hyposalinity) is not good to do with copper. Water chemistry alone with just hyposalinity in a QT tank that has not been setup very long is also very unstable. In this case I would use copper.

Re: Ich
 

I have had an ich outbreak one time and both my clowns were covered and later died from it. Clowns are not immuned.