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Been lots of discussion on quarantine tanks lately so I wanted to start a thread to allow people that quarantine their livestock to explain their quarantine procedures.
What size quarantine?
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29 G x 2. yeah...I have 2 QT tanks because I am trying this tank transfer(TT) method of treating marine ich. Was using hypo for fish mainly before(don't try this for inverts
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What equipment do you use?
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For TT, a power head, a air pump, a heater, some pvc pipes and an ammonia indicator.
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What parameters do you monitor?
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only NH4 with a NH4 badge.
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What treatments/chemicals/procedures do you use?
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prazipro on every fish. Other meds(antibacterial, chloroquine phosphate for other parasites) case by case. prime for neutralizing NH4. dips for coral.
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What do you quarantine? Fish, inverts(crab, snail, shrimp), coral
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Fish and inverts in one QT system. coral in frag tank.
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How long do you quarantine?
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Fish, 6+ weeks. invert a couple weeks. coral no specific timeline. Whenever I feel it's safe to move the coral from the frag tank to the main tank I will do it.
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Interested to see what people suggest when adding corals and inverts, how do you insure you don't introduce any parasites?
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For coral, the best thing to do it to set up a frag tank. you can put your newly acquired corals there for observation. That eliminates a dedicated coral QT tank. of course you need to dip your coral before you put it into your frag tank. Invert (I assume you meant crab and snails and shrimp etc because coral is invert) is easy. a small QT tank with very basic equipments will do. Make sure no copper and other meds in invert QT tank though.
I understand that not everyone wants to set up a QT system like I do. But when you have a collection of rare fish (read expensive), you want to do what you can to make sure nothing bad getting into your DT.