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    Re: Catfish help

    Niether was I. It came in on shrimp I got from a supposedly reputable dealer.
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    Re: Catfish help

    Quote Originally Posted by JCO
    Yours is a fair assumption, but netting a fish can also cause it injury that can lead to fungus growth on the fish so you are damned if you do and damed if you don't.

    As for releasing anything into your water, if the fish is in the bag with the malady and the water came from the same location as the fish and nothing is visible to the naked eye in the water, then you can just about bet if it is something that is detremental to the fish, the fish has already been infected.

    That's the reason for quarentening new fish for at least a week before releashing the into an established community.
    I was agreeing with the quarantine idea, it's a 'must-do' as far as I am concerned, but some of the critters may live through the quarantine .... i.e. if you are treating for ICK, you might miss some flukes or other parasites since they require different medicants .... or the opposite may be true ..... my whole idea is that if you net them out of the 'bag' whether it is a hospital tank or a transfer container, you just try to prevent the water or the net from coming in contact with the 'clean' water .... it's all a personal preference thing .... I've seen people swear up and down that either way (yours or mine), is the bar-none-absolute-bestest, hands-down-guaranteed-only-way to do it
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    Re: Catfish help

    Quote Originally Posted by JCO
    I wasn't talking about swamp water Badflash
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