Aquarium quarantine

So, imagine that you have a beautifulaquarium, various interesting fish, good, high-quality equipment, lighting - in general, everything is as it should be. And then you bring home a new fish, you plant to the rest, and in the end you get a whole aquarium of sick pets. How did it happen? The thing is that along with the fish you brought into the aquarium a virus or dangerous bacteria that provoked the disease of all the inhabitants of the aquarium.

Therefore, in order, To protect their pets from parasites, all acquired fish must first be placed in a quarantine aquarium. It enables the new fish to recoverhis health before placing it in a new capacity, adapt to a new type of water and feed. Most ordinary lovers do not contain quarantine aquariums because of the extra costs that are needed for it. Although, in principle, such an aquarium does not have to be big or expensive, in addition, in the end, it will pay for itself.

By themselves Quarantine aquariums help to avoidinfectious diseases, but they can also be used for the treatment of diseased fish, for reproduction, for the isolation of militant inhabitants, and for the safe growth of fry. What should be the aquarium for quarantine? It is recommended to use a common aquarium without soil (as you will often have to wash it), without a biofilter, without plants, but with a heater, compressor, mechanical filter, dim light.

The aquarium can be small, but mustmatch the size of the fish that are in it. The water in the tank for insulation should not differ in its characteristics from the total aquarium. This is necessary for good adaptation of fish to new conditions, because any change in them is stress, and it is not very useful. It is desirable to change the water as often as possible. All fish-breeding equipment - net, thermometer, etc., and the insulator itself must necessarily undergo disinfection. It can be carried out with the help of boiling water, a five percent solution of chloramine or hydrochloric acid.

Light in the quarantine aquarium is not important, it is only necessary for you to observe the behavior of the fish. Too bright light, try to avoid,because it depresses fish. When planting a new fish in a quarantine aquarium, do not pour water into the aquarium from the container in which you brought it. Otherwise, you can bring several diseases at once with water. First try to make the same temperature water in the plastic bag, in which you brought the fish, and the aquarium. To do this, lower the bag for a while in the aquarium. Then put the fish in a separate vessel and add in it gradually water from the aquarium. Keep the new fish in quarantine best about two weeks, carefully watching her behavior.

If the fish is healthy, then it should be carefully placed in the main aquarium, avoiding water from the quarantine aquarium. For reinsurance, it is possible to conduct procedures"Preventive bathing", one course of which consists of three baths with interruptions at 12 o'clock. Depending on the condition of the fish, the duration of bathing can be 10-12 minutes. Therapeutic solutions for such baths, prepared on the stand-by water, can be solutions of potassium permanganate or tryptophlavine. For 10 liters of potassium permanganate water, 1 g is taken, and tripoplavin is 0.2 g. There should be no undissolved particles of the substance in the baths.