Re: urgent - female A. cacatuoides under quarantene?

[Rik Vandiver <mrriketts@ynn.com>]

you should always quarantine the fish for at least a week if not longer

Alfredo Figueiredo wrote:

> First of all, let me send portuguese sympathies to american people for all
> those people who have lost their lives in the recent tragedies in America.
>
> As some of you remember, I had a female N. anomala instead of a female A.
> cacatuoides. Today I went to the shop and the Apistos tank was "not for
> sale". I explain: there were a lot of fishes suffering from an infection
> (bacterial causes, the owner told me). The person who was at the shop
> advised me that it was best not to buy fishes from that tank but that were
> possibilities that everything could go OK. He told me that the disease was
> not contagious and that I could put the fish safetly in the tank (80L, pH:
> 6.5, gH: 3º, temp: 26ºC, 1 A. cacatuoides, 6 killies, 4 tetra cardinals,
> lots of plants). He also told me that it could be a good idea to put the
> female in a 10L tank to quarantene.
>
> I'm a bit confused but I arrived home and put in a 10L tank 5L water from
> the main aquarium and 5L of new water. Put also an O2 tablet and anti Cl. No
> filtering in that tank, no oxygenation.
>
> What do you advised me to do? Do I maintain the fish in this tank or I
> transfer it to the main one?
>
> Thanks
>
> Alfredo
>
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