Quarantine Aquarium

Every aquarist should be a spare tank, which should be used for hospitalization, quarantine, or fish farming, as well as to isolate the aggressive animals. When the aquarium will be used as a hospital, it can perform several functions. |

• Isolation of fish to monitor it.

• Isolation of fish for her rest and relaxation after the aggression, stress, or to relieve fatigue after the deposition of eggs or birth (if necessary - for example, a live-fish).

• Isolation of a fish that needs treatment with chemical agents. This measure will avoid unnecessary treatment of healthy fish.

• Isolation of a fish or sequential isolation of a few fish for short-term treatment of chemicals in the case when processing the main aquarium to be feasible (see below for more information on short-term baths).

• Isolation of fish if the medicine that will be used for treatment, adverse effects on biological filtration, or harmful to plants and therefore not suitable for general aquarium.

• Isolation of one or more fish, which will negatively respond to treatment in the general aquarium.

Isolated fish can be treated with some alternative means, depending on the circumstances. Accessories insulating aquarium may be different depending on the specific application. For example, it can be used as a container for short-term treatment - without heating, filtration and decoration (but often with aeration). For longer treatment is necessary heating water, and possibly chemical filtration with the use of zeolite (for removal of ammonia). In addition, if the fish located in a hospital aquarium for recovery from stress need shelter in one form or another, then you need to ensure that they are in such a shelter. To fish might just be rest and recuperation in the insulating aquarium, it must be for them in this temporary home - the equipment (including biological filtration), ground, background and other suitable decoration. Moreover, all decorative items must be placed so that the fish was easy to observe. It should calculate the amount of hospital aquarium, record the resulting value and store this record in first-aid kit or attach a label to the aquarium itself, to avoid having to calculate this amount each time to use the aquarium.