Kole and Naso QT Help

[Reef23]

Thanks everyone I like the sounds of the hyposalinity treatment over medicine any day. Anyone have a good link to the proper procedure for hyposalinity treatment ? Also everyone is saying soak food in garlic. Where do I get this garlic? LFS or grocery store ?

[Doug]

So you think 30g is needed just quarantine a baby tang. I would say fine if you have one but a standard 20g would suffice also. Wholley crap, we are talking a couple in. long here people. I,m all for tangs having a very large tank for swimming but just for this purpose.

A standard 55g would be best, again if one is sitting around. Why stop at a standard 30g long.

A friend had a baby Regal about 3in. long. He was so sick with ick, it was almost time to put it from its misery. I took the fish back to my place and put him in a 5g tank with lots of hidey pipes, good flow and a good power filter.

Treated him with a copper based medicine and lowered salinity. Fed him spirolina flakes soaked in garlic and Boyds Vita Chem. I think thats what it was called. He/she spent several months in that tank.

Today, 10yrs, later that Regal rules a friends 180g tank.

This of course would be for a single baby, in the 2in. to 3in. range. I dont disagree the larger tank is better but other options would still work. I also agree with someone that posted 4 weeks is a long time if its a healthy tang, showing no signs of disease.

To answer your question, that was just store bought garlic capsules. I also believe they now make garlic specific for fish purpose. I just lowered the salinity over a few days. Dont recall how low but not the extremes some use. I think from my tank waters of 1.025 down to about 1.012----1.015 range. I can remember articles on it but not sure where. Perhaps have a look in our reference library or the Advanced Aquarists Online mag. They may have an old article on it.

You could also put it on the search engine here or Reef Central and see what pops up.