A stock watering trough or a kiddie swimming pool make good quarantine
tanks. They are generally smaller than the pond, which makes netting the
fish, observing the fish and the quantity of chemicals used better, but due
to the small quantity of water, it is more difficult to maintain the
ammonia, nitrites, pH and temperature properly. The control of the
environment is very important since changes cause stress, and stress reduces
the immune system. No quarantine is better than poor quarantine. A good
filter system can be maintained in operational form by the addition of small
amounts of household, nonsudsing ammonia on a daily basis to feed the
biobugs, or a few fish can be kept in the system to keep the filter going,
and moved out when a new fish needs the quarantine.
--
RichToyBox
http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html


"*muffin*" wrote in message
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I have read where , when you bring NEW fish into an established pond, you
guys quarantine them.

what is the directions?
where??? can you put them into a really BIG plastic tub? with an air
stone?

how long are they kept there??

what would you put in the water with them??
salt ? (what concentration? is sea salt the same as table salt,, or
water softener salt???)
potassium permanganate??

(ok, for my first pond stocking..... I know its gonna be wrong, but will
probably get most fish same time & not quarantine them, but need above
info
for when I 'add' future fish)