[angelfury]

Hello everyone,

I currently have a 20gal quarantine tank that I make use of for every new fish I purchase. I always treat the tank with Formalin per directions, Malachite Green per dir's, and either ethromycin, nitrafurazone or minocycline. I ALWAYS treat the tank this way for a total of five days whether I believe the fish to be totally healthy or not. By using this method, I am trying to cover the whole ballpark of infections a fish could have. The LFS here are very bad, it seems as if they dont care or they dont know what to do as their fish always have some sort of sickness. I have thought abt adding Hypo to the list but thought it would be of little use for ich since I use formalin/malachite, and the fact that it only treats ich.

Anyway, so far it seems to have worked really well on the few fish that have undergone this method. I currently have a baby hippo tang in the q-tank as I type this, I purchased him today at one of the bad LFS stores which they had this guy in his own seperate tank, a tank to his right with occelaris clowns full and extremely noticeable of what seemed to be brooklynella, and to his left a tank of yellow tangs full of Ich..........ALL Sharing the same sump! I know, I know, but the hippo looked so healthy , active and his color was very prominent, I thought I would do this little guy a favor,treat him and give him a healthy home.

But I am still wondering if my treatment method is a good one? Should I be doing this? Am I using the correct Antibiotics/Chem's or are their more effective one's?

Please offer feedback as I want to treat my fish the most effective way possible.