When should I add new fish?

[Citicricket]

I am so glad to have found this place...it is nice that people with experience are willing to take the time to answer silly questions like mine! I have a newer 45 gal set-up, it has been running about 9 weeks and we are past the "new tank syndrome" and made it through a bout of ich. I treated the tank with copper-safe about 3 weeks ago and left the four carbon filters that had been in the tank about a month in place. The temp was bumped to 83 and there are now no signs of ich or unhappy fish. I changed out about 10 gals over the weekend. I have 3 platys, 1 molly, 5 neons and 2 veil tail tetras and would like to add two gouramis and maybe a loach. So do I add them now when there is still copper-safe to protect them all from ich or should I add new carbon to the filters to remove the meds first? I am not anywhere close to a private shop so I have to buy fish from PetSmart or Petco, I look really closely at them but ya just don't know if they are really "clean".

 

[LondonGman]

Hi dude,
I saw your post and thought that you have already posted the question somewhere before and a quick search confirmed it. Please allow me to link to it so that people wdo not respond to it twice. Hope admin do not mind.

http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=9445

Ps I will wait

 

[megnmick]

I would say it's probably okay to add about two more fish.

 

[Allivymar]

Thanx for pointing that out Gman: have a few kudos for doing my job LOL

I'm going to close this thread out as mostly everyone answered in the other thread (we are all over the place Citicricket, don't worry about a question getting missed of someone has an answer ).

You might want to throw this over in that other thread megnmick