I know people often recommend not QTing them, but this guys has been in store water with a bunch of other fish for weeks, so any resistance to disease sand sleeping might have conferred to him normally has been negated in his time in captivity, and I'm sure the advancing exhaustion has made him susceptible to all sorts of things.
The only medication I use during QT is prazi-pro, as thankfully the tank transfer protocol negates the need for harsh copper based medications. I also have been looking for a reason to use the 90 pounds of sand I have left over from when I set up my tank for the past year, so I've got more than enough to give him a full 4 inch sand bed for the next 3 transfers, Throwing out the used sand after each one. Hopefully that keeps the stress to a minimum and allows it to recover from being in the store.
I played with the idea of not QTing this one, but I have paid such a high price for that in the past. On the upside this one is already fully accepting frozen foods, so one vector for failure is already covered.
I would normally keep the fish in QT for a couple of weeks after the tank transfer is finished, but in this case I think I'm going to dose Prazi-pro during the actual transfer (the number of days between doses is conveniently the same number of days between transfers) and send him to the big tank at day 13.
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