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Originally Posted by christyf5
So I come home from vacation Saturday and my tailspot wrasse has popeye. My tanksitter says he was googly eyed Thurs, ate Friday but didn't eat on Saturday. Sunday morning I race off to get some maracyn (suggested by wetwebmedia) I fish him out of the tank to treat him in a QT on Sunday. Wake up to a dead fish this am 
I don't think I've ever successfully treated a fish in a QT tank, ever. Not that I've done it that much. I usually don't have much success in actually seeing the problem, finding the fish, getting him out of the tank into the QT but the few times I have, they ALWAYS die!!
Is it just me? do QTs really suck? How big of a tank should I be using?
Ugh, so frustrating. I LOVED that fish. And how the hell did he get popeye in the first place??? Arggghhhh!!! |
That sucks to hear about your bad luck. I set up a quarantine tank a while ago, and happy I did as some fish have gotten sick in the quarantine tank prior to going into the display. If the quarantine tank isn't set up appropriately, they can be worse than the display tank. You should use a tank of at least 20% of the size of your display tank. So, if you've got a 100 gallon tank, you should have a quarantine tank of at least 20 gallons.
There definitely is stress on the fish when you remove them from the main tank and into the quarantine, but better the one fish dies than all the fish in your main system.