Moving healthy fish out of quarantine

[Elisabeth83]

I'm treating a female ram for fin rot ..I've done the treatment for 4 days now and just treated the tank again for a further 4 days just to be sure the fin rot is gone.

The tank she's in is kind of my quarantine tank at the moment and in there I have a female peacock gudgeon. She doesn't have fin rot her fins are all perfect.

The problem is the peacock is getting chased pretty much all day long by the female ram. I'd like to move her to another tank but I'm wondering if there's a huge risk of moving her to another that the fin rot will spread to the healthy tank which houses a couple of small fish?

 

[Angry_Platy]

Theres a chance that since both fish have been together that the peacock may have finrot but not be showing signs of it yet. Its a tricky one. If you leave it in there with the ram it may get hassled too much and end up getting finrot from stress. On the other hand if you put it back with the other fish they may be at risk.

Personally I would keep an eye on the ram and see how the chasing behaviour goes. If it looks like its getting too bad then you might try separating them via a breeders net or the like.

 

[Elisabeth83]

Yeah I've been holding off moving her out because I'm afraid but I've been watching for 2 days now and the chasing is just getting more intense.

I've been treating for 4 days and on the medication thats how long your supposed to treat for but I decided to do an additional treatment because the rams fins arn't healed up. Most of the white edging is gone but I didnt want to risk it coming back.

Since I've already done the treatment for 4 days wouldn't there be little chance the peacock could pick it up?

The stuff I'm using says it kills all bacteria within hours and it's for internal and external bacteria. Even if the peacock did have fin rot but wasn't showing it wouldn't the 4 day treatment taken care of it and even if I did move her over the water from the net or on her shouldn't have any bacteria alive in it.

I don't know I'm afraid to risk it but I don't want to loose her and I'd be afraid of keeping her in a breeding net. It's such a small area she'd just be stressed I'd think.

 

[Def]

Use a tank divider temporarily.