What would a person do to a new fish prior to putting them into a QT tank to perhaps take preventative measures on a fish that might be incubating this disease? Does a person put some copper in the fish bag the fish came home in for a certain amount of time to kill off any disease?
Any new fish I have brought home get prazipro and cupamine put into the fish bag and they are left in it for an hour. I do pour the fish and contents of the bag into a pail and cover it with a towel while I do this as well. Then I add and subtract my tank water by replacing one cup of bag water with tank water (bag water goes down the sink), and I keep doing this for about 40 minutes. I then net the fish and put it into my holding tank. I know one LFS that does a fresh water dip on all new fihs to kill everything but it freaks me out to do this. So far, since I have taken the measures I have done, I have not had a single problem with any disease of any kind. However, perhaps this has just been good luck, so any insight on how else people do things would be appreciated.
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