Live Rock In Quarantine?

[MarkoD]

ok so i set up a 25 gallon quarantine tank with a 15 gallon sump.

in the quarantine tank i have a powerhead, a few pieces of PVC pipe for hiding spots and a few fake plants

in the sump i have my heater and i transfered a few pieces of liverock from my main display's sump. the one piece of liverock has a bunch of sponges on it

is this ok for now? i have a bucket full of bioballs but i dont know what to use.

if i medicate the tank, will the good bacteria die or just the sponges and whatever little bugs are on the rock?

[sgreen]

The live rock will hold the medication and it could kill whatever is in the rock, I would take the rock out.

[MarkoD]

ok thanks for the advice. ill remove the rock before medicating.

but what about having bioballs in the sump? would the medication kill the beneficial bacteria on the bioballs?

[phi delt reefer]

marko - get an AquaClear HOB filter and throw it on the back of the tank to filter the quarantine water. Take the filter pads from the hob and throw them in your "display tank" or display tank sump for a couple days to start accumlating the beneficial bacterial. Do a water change in your display tank and throw that water into your QT tank and put the filter pads into the HOB. You should be good from there

Bioballs are too much work to keep clean.


once you are done with the QT you can just empty the tank and throw out the filter pads. When you need to QT again just put some new filter pads back in your DT and reapeat the process i mentioned above.

[MarkoD]

i cant use water from the display tank because im afraid that theres ich still in the water (which is the reason for the QT)

i set up the QT few days ago and have had a few pieces of LR in there.

and im going to be using the QT for the next few months while i stock my 180 gallon. im not sure that a filter pad is going to help me out long term.
plus i already have everything setup with the sump

[MarkoD]

maybe i can just put filter pads in the sump and change or clean one every week or so

Originally Posted by MarkoD

ok so i set up a 25 gallon quarantine tank with a 15 gallon sump.

in the quarantine tank i have a powerhead, a few pieces of PVC pipe for hiding spots and a few fake plants

in the sump i have my heater and i transfered a few pieces of liverock from my main display's sump. the one piece of liverock has a bunch of sponges on it

is this ok for now? i have a bucket full of bioballs but i dont know what to use.

if i medicate the tank, will the good bacteria die or just the sponges and whatever little bugs are on the rock?

I have a QT with LR in it if medication is needed then I isolate in a separate hospital tank. QT is for isolation and observation before they go into the DT not medicating fish. Medicating fish a whole different world you can set up a hospital tank in about 10 mins . I have a 5g tank for treating fish and a 10g tank. run a air line and water you have to do water changes every day but they are not that huge.

I make my QT so there is hiding spots that are near normal for the fish they don't get as stressed out before they go into the DT. the only fish I lost in the past 6 months was a blond Naso tang from a power outage in the night. only 1 fish out of three tanks I would say that is a good ending considering the power was out for 8 and half hours. I guess I could have fired up the generator but didn't want to wake up the neighbors

Bill.
Bill