A little update on my new fish. After about 24 hours in quarantine two of them started to develop what looked like some kind of fungal growth. It appeared in sporadic patches over scaled areas, not fins. The fish seemed ok, their behaviour was active and normal looking, and they were feeding well. Here we go I thought.
I'm not the type of hobbyist who has a fish medicine cupboard with an adornment of cures. However, I did have an oldish bottle of a "white spot and fungus cure" with claims of curing an assortment of diseases. It's expiry date was July 2023!
Without even knowing if this stuff would eradicate whatever was afflicting the fish, I started a course of treatment. After four days there was a vast improvement, and today, day nine, there are no signs of anything on any of the four new fish. Phew!
I'm going to give it a while longer before introducing them to my 360g. Hopefully we'll have no more scares along the way.
Another example of the importance of quarantine.
I'm not the type of hobbyist who has a fish medicine cupboard with an adornment of cures. However, I did have an oldish bottle of a "white spot and fungus cure" with claims of curing an assortment of diseases. It's expiry date was July 2023!
Without even knowing if this stuff would eradicate whatever was afflicting the fish, I started a course of treatment. After four days there was a vast improvement, and today, day nine, there are no signs of anything on any of the four new fish. Phew!
I'm going to give it a while longer before introducing them to my 360g. Hopefully we'll have no more scares along the way.
Another example of the importance of quarantine.
