Quarantine Feeder Fish?

(BTW if anyone is wondering about my last thread, the issue is 100% resolved, the stink and high levels went away after I removed live plant bulbs I got from petco and changed the filter cartridge; don't EVER buy live plant bulbs from petco; They make your tank very very smelly and mold inside, even if you give them plant supplements!)

I want to keep the most popular feeder fish, the Rosy Red Minnow (or Fathead Minnow in it's wild gray form) as pets (and never use them as feeder fish)

I know, since I have turtles, fish tanks, and have read well on the internet that Rosy Red Minnows have parasites because they are those fish that are 10 cents a fish, and there are hundreds or thousands of these fish in one tank (If you go to any pet store, even local; I've tried, they are crammed)

People on the internet say to ask for pet Rosy Red Minnows; no pet store around here has them.

These fish are SUPER hardy, I've bought them as feeders for my (aquatic) turtles, and they survive even in dirty water until the turtles eat them, sometimes being a week! If they are that hardy as a feeder fish, I want to see what they'd be like as a pet fish, since I can find hardly anything online for it, except that "Rosy Red Minnows, when not crowded like the species usual life, will constantly breed at the 80 degrees Fahrenheit mark."

TL;DR: Here is my question:

How would you quarantine a fish that is alive and hardy, but you assume it has basically everything wrong with it disease wise, parasite wise, etc, while being cheap and fairly fast?

Thank you very much

 

If you want to quarantine for everything, its not very cost effective. You can set up an extra tank for them, with separate cleaning supplies, and house them in there and dose whatever medication you feel necessary.

Most of the time they come with internal parasites since most feeder fish are usually wild caught. I know they sell medicated fish food, you can starve the fish then feed them the food(usually how it’s done).

Something like this:

 

If you want to quarantine for everything, its not very cost effective. You can set up an extra tank for them, with separate cleaning supplies, and house them in there and dose whatever medication you feel necessary.

Most of the time they come with internal parasites since most feeder fish are usually wild caught. I know they sell medicated fish food, you can starve the fish then feed them the food(usually how it’s done).

Something like this:

Just a little quarantine tank until I put them in my community tank. How long would you starve the fish, and that link doesn't work for me.

 

Just a little quarantine tank until I put them in my community tank. How long would you starve the fish, and that link doesn't work for me.

Yeah, you can also use a plastic tub if you don't want to use a tank. You can starve the fish for up to a 4-5 days if they won’t accept the medicated fish food.

Looks up Peabodysparadisellc on ebay. They sell a form of medicated food.

 

Yeah, you can also use a plastic tub if you don't want to use a tank. You can starve the fish for up to a 4-5 days if they won’t accept the medicated fish food.

Looks up Peabodysparadisellc on ebay. They sell a form of medicated food.

How long would I do this, and have you personally used this seller, and did it work? thank you very much.

 

You may want to look into Levamisole dewormer. Read up on it first, you can get it here 99% Pure Levamisole HCl Powder

Here's some details

 

How long would I do this, and have you personally used this seller, and did it work? thank you very much.

You would have to follow the instructions on the medications you pick. I have not tried it as I have not had a reason to. I have purchased their root tabs but that is all. I think peabodysparadise was also a sponser of some sort to this forum, jdhef were they? I noticed they has a subforum to themselves.

 

Yes, peabodysparadise is sponsor, unless something changed that I am unaware of (Is that even possible?).

 

Sorry, I have one last question. Could I just wait a week or two (keeping them in the 3 gallon quarantine tank), and if they don't exhibit any symptoms of being sick in any way, would it be safe to move them into my community tank? Where I have bought them in the past they have never had anything bad (they lived for 1+ weeks, and those things pass on to turtles and they never got sick)

 

Sorry, I have one last question. Could I just wait a week or two (keeping them in the 3 gallon quarantine tank), and if they don't exhibit any symptoms of being sick in any way, would it be safe to move them into my community tank? Where I have bought them in the past they have never had anything bad (they lived for 1+ weeks, and those things pass on to turtles and they never got sick)

How many do you have? I wouldn’t use a 3 gal as a QT.

 

How many do you have? I wouldn’t use a 3 gal as a QT.

Zero right now; planning to get 3; Size of the quarantine shouldn't matter, 1 gallon would be better then 1,000 fish in a 40 gallon tank lol

 

Zero right now; planning to get 3; Size of the quarantine shouldn't matter, 1 gallon would be better then 1,000 fish in a 40 gallon tank lol

Go for it, it’s just my opinion.

 

Go for it, it’s just my opinion.

How long would I keep them there though before moving them? Thank you so much for responding to everything.

 

At my store, they're actually the clean feeders, I think it probably has to due with the low bio-load, thus less nasty water, which means better immune system. I'd use General Cure along with Levamisole because they treat different kinds of internal parasites.

Also, they're not wild caught, they're not even found in the wild. It's a man-made fish. If they were straight fathead Minnows that'd be different.

 

At my store, they're actually the clean feeders, I think it probably has to due with the low bio-load, thus less nasty water, which means better immune system. I'd use General Cure along with Levamisole because they treat different kinds of internal parasites.

Also, they're not wild caught, they're not even found in the wild. It's a man-made fish. If they were straight fathead Minnows that'd be different.

My store too. Not to be harsh, and I appreciate the suggestion, but that's not cheap.