What do you think of this idea??

[kadaytar]

IMO a 5 gal tank will be too small for a big fish. You will stress out the fish also you have to feed the fish in a quarantine tank as well so it will also be very difficult to keep acceptable water parameters in a 5 gal. If i were you I would go with a 20 gal. I don't know your tank size but if you have a large tank with a big bioload 5 or 10 gal refugium will be small too.

[Mik_101]

The biggest hospital tank I can go with is a 10 or 15 g

[michika]

What about this:
Plumbing two tanks into your existing system, a refugium, and a QT/time out tank. Plumb the QT system so that you can take it offline from the main system, and include a HOB filter etc. for water movement. This way you have the option to make a true QT system, as well you can take out any fish that may need separating from the tank, but don't need to be in an independant system.

I would say go for the biggest QT & 'fug. that you can, it will increase your total water volume, and that in turn will go a long ways to help stabalize any chemistry etc.

[Mik_101]

Originally Posted by michika

What about this:
Plumbing two tanks into your existing system, a refugium, and a QT/time out tank. Plumb the QT system so that you can take it offline from the main system, and include a HOB filter etc. for water movement. This way you have the option to make a true QT system, as well you can take out any fish that may need separating from the tank, but don't need to be in an independant system.

I would say go for the biggest QT & 'fug. that you can, it will increase your total water volume, and that in turn will go a long ways to help stabalize any chemistry etc.

Im not realy wanting to plumb my hole system . I will just have a separate QT/hospial?Time out tank.