LightingBamboozled
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Not quite as bad as sophies choice but.
I moved Neon Tetra's out of a 4 week quarantine on Saturday. I left the 90L tank running and dosed ammonia once to keep as much living bacteria in the filters as possible. Late last night I spotted what appears to be columnaris on one of the neon tetra (Cyst and pale coloration). I immediately isolated him back to the QT. and this morning did a 60% water change on the tank with reasonably heavy vacuum.
I don't have Myxazin on hand but it's arriving Saturday. I intend to dose the main tank and the QT.
Problem is I have 15 Lemon Tetra, 10 yellow cherry shrimp and 3 bamboo shrimp arriving today.
I always intended to put the bamboo shrimp into the main tank (there won't be enough to feed them in any QT). I've set up an old 75L tank as an additional tank for quarntining or meds.
Should I
1) Move the sick neon to the new quarantine with a sponge from the existing QT and quarantine the lemons and cherries in the exisitng 90L QT
2) Move some sponges to the new QT and quarantine the Lemons and Cherries in there
3) Quarantine the Lemons and Cherries in the new QT with uncycled filters to avoid contaminating with columnaris.
Or some other combination of the above.
I moved Neon Tetra's out of a 4 week quarantine on Saturday. I left the 90L tank running and dosed ammonia once to keep as much living bacteria in the filters as possible. Late last night I spotted what appears to be columnaris on one of the neon tetra (Cyst and pale coloration). I immediately isolated him back to the QT. and this morning did a 60% water change on the tank with reasonably heavy vacuum.
I don't have Myxazin on hand but it's arriving Saturday. I intend to dose the main tank and the QT.
Problem is I have 15 Lemon Tetra, 10 yellow cherry shrimp and 3 bamboo shrimp arriving today.
I always intended to put the bamboo shrimp into the main tank (there won't be enough to feed them in any QT). I've set up an old 75L tank as an additional tank for quarntining or meds.
Should I
1) Move the sick neon to the new quarantine with a sponge from the existing QT and quarantine the lemons and cherries in the exisitng 90L QT
2) Move some sponges to the new QT and quarantine the Lemons and Cherries in there
3) Quarantine the Lemons and Cherries in the new QT with uncycled filters to avoid contaminating with columnaris.
Or some other combination of the above.