There are two ways of looking at the usefulness of quarantine tanks. Firstly
the experience may be stressful enough to bring out any "dormant" diseases
e.g. TB or on the other hand it can give you a chance to feed up the new
fish with extra live food etc and improve its condition. The quarantine tank
can still have some nylon mops and/or plastic plants for security and
perhpas you have a few small other species of rainbowfish that are
expendable if nesessary to add to your quarantine tank for company.
I have no doubts that a single fish will survive the "loneliness" of a
quarantine tank for a month.
Regards,
Bruce.
Bruce Hansen, A.N.G.F.A., Advancing Australian Aquatics.
Bruce Hansen, ANGFA, caring for our aquatic ecosystems.
Please visit us at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/angfa.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: H. Hoekstra <hugo at greed.nl>
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Date: Monday, 19 April 1999 23:54
Subject: [RML] Re: bloated praecox & metronidazole, quarantine
>
>There is a petshop here who has 1 lonely female praecox. If I get it, would
>it survive alone in a 11 gallon quarantine tank for a month ?
>
>I wonder because of my observations of hospitalized praecox, it seems to
>me that being seperated from the school is almost worse for them than the
>actual disease.
>
>Best regards,
>Hugo Hoekstra
>
>