How long should my otos be in quarantine

musho3210

??? one has been in there for 2 days and the other has been there for 1 day. When can i move them to my main tank where they can eat some of the algae.

Matt

what kind of quarantine do u have them in?

musho3210

a bare bottom 10 gallon tank with a 20 gallon filter (pumps 100 gallons an hour) And i have some brown algae covered ornaments in the quarantine

Matt

Just move them now u should be fine.
Do u have Warrenty?(I always take advantage of warrenty.LOL)

musho3210

yeah 7 day but i dont think about waranty cause i would spend all my money to keep them alive even if i could just get a new one if they died. THere my pets and i have a responsiblilty for them since there living creatures :)

Matt

ya man. They should be fine.

RubberFrog

Leave them in there for two weeks. You're not quarantining them for there protection. You are quarentining them for the protection of your other fish.

musho3210

na im moving them to my big tank now, there are no signs of disease whatsoever, no abnormally big bellies, no salty white stuff on them, no fungus growing

plus there running out of algae to eat in the quarantine tank

Lupin

That's easy to assume considering various diseases will remain undetected. I'd go with the two weeks rather than earlier or you might get into lots of problems soon.

RubberFrog

Not to put to fine a point on it but that is a very foolish rookie assumption. There are TONS of diseases which can take several weeks to show up.

As far` as running out of algae- just throw some algae wafers in there.